About the role
<p><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The Role</span></strong></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">We are looking for a hands-on Senior Data Scientist who uses Python and agentic development tools, like Claude Code or similar, to design and implement statistical and machine learning models that directly impact our customers' financial outcomes. You will own the full modeling lifecycle across credit underwriting, risk management, and forecasting, and play a key role in shaping how we use data to serve small businesses better, and contribute to the technical direction of the broader data science teamThere are significant opportunities to grow and lead at Pipe.</span></p> <p><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Your key responsibilities will include:</span></strong></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Independently developing and owning statistical models that forecast cash flows and other drivers of business and customer health.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Designing and building models that optimize our product offerings to better serve our customers' needs.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Proactively exploring datasets to surface insights, and prototyping new approaches that create measurable value for customers.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Taking full outcome ownership of deployed models, including performance monitoring, residual analysis, and iteration, in close collaboration with engineering.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Mentoring junior team members, raising the technical bar through code and design review, and contributing to our data science best practices and long-term tooling roadmap.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Partnering with engineering and data engineering to productionize models, shape data infrastructure requirements, and improve our MLOps foundations.</span></li> </ul> <p><br><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Qualifications</span></strong></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">We are looking for a motivated, intellectually curious Senior Data Scientist with the following qualifications:</span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">4-7+ years of experience developing and deploying machine learning or statistical models in a production environment (inclusive of relevant post-undergraduate academic work)</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Strong proficiency in Python and the broader data science ecosystem (NumPy, Pandas