Data Scientist - Production Research Group

About Pagaya

Pagaya is a global technology company making life-changing financial products and services available to more people nationwide, as it reshapes the financial services ecosystem. By using machine learning, a vast data network and a sophisticated AI-driven approach, Pagaya provides comprehensive consumer credit and residential real estate solutions for its partners, their customers, and investors. Its proprietary API and capital solutions integrate into its network of partners to deliver seamless user experiences and greater access to the mainstream economy. Pagaya has offices in New York and Tel Aviv. For more information, visit pagaya.com.

About the Role

We are looking for an ambitious Researcher / Data Scientist, who wants to make a strong impact while conducting various research projects and analyses, highly influencing the business aspects of the company, works at a fast pace, demonstrates creative thinking, knows how to clearly convey the research to both highly technological stakeholders and executive business stakeholders.

This individual will join the research department, focusing on one of our various credit products and work closely with the production environment.

In this role, you will research Pagaya’s models behavior and performance prior and post its deployment to production, optimize the models with production data, optimize and contribute to Pagaya’s portfolio management considering diverse metrics and aspects and create ML and statistical tools to enhance Pagaya’s prediction models.

In this role you, will be of the key teams with the most influential impact on Pagaya’s production and performance. 

Responsibilities

• Research, design and implement data-driven solutions for the company’s core mission using Data Science methodologies from various domains.
• Optimize these solutions using our production data.
• Work in a short life-cycle research and development environment.
• Generate and test working hypotheses in unexplored territory.
• Use and develop statistical algorithms and techniques to create and improve our analytics and deep-dive capabilities.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of experience in Research, Machine Learning, Data Analysis, including experience with predictive modeling on tabular data.
• Track record of translating research into business impact.
• Math/EE/CS/Physics/Stats graduate with an honored BSc or MSc.
• Great interpersonal skills.
• Good applied statistics skills, such as distributions, statistical testing, regression, etc.
• Strong scripting and programming skills, preferably in Python.
• Independent and fast learner that can work alone and in teams.
• A good executer, who knows how to work at a fast pace and make an immediate impact.
• Ability to learn and explore new fields of expertise.
• Good communication skills, ability to explain and simplify complex ideas.
• Experience or academic knowledge in financial domains - an advantage

Our Team

Pagaya was founded in 2016 by seasoned research, finance, and technology entrepreneurs, and we are now 500+ strong in New York, Los Angeles, and Tel Aviv.

We move fast and smart, identifying new opportunities and building end-to-end solutions from AI models and unique data sources. Every Pagaya team member is solving new and exciting challenges every day in a culture based on partnership, collaboration, and community.

Join a team of builders who are working every day to enable better outcomes for our partners and their customers.

Our Values

Our values are at the heart of everything we do. We believe great solutions are built through a great community.

• Advance Inclusion- We create a world where everyone can win, designing systems that better represent people and generate sustainable value for our employees, partners and investors.
• Be Accountable Together- We proudly own our actions and our results, taking initiative to ensure our work gets over the finish line as a team.
• Continuously Learn- We challenge ourselves for the sake of getting better as individuals, as teams, and as an organization to deliver for our partners.
• Debate and Commit- We respectfully and openly debate to strengthen our ideas and build shared conviction - once we decide, we go all in, together.
• Dream Big and Act- We boldly tackle complex problems, pressure-test solutions in real-time, and adapt with speed and energy.

More than just a job

We believe health, happiness, and productivity go hand-in-hand. That's why we're continually looking to enhance the ways we support you with benefits programs and perks that allow every Pagayan to do the best work of their life. 

Pagaya is an equal opportunity employer. Pagaya is encouraging diversity and actively seeking applicants from all backgrounds, as are committed to creating a diverse workforce together with an inclusive environment for all. Employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, skills, and business needs.