Principal AI Engineer [Risk]

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Plata CardFintech
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Required Skills
PythonMachine LearningDeep Learning

Requirements

  • Proven experience applying deep learning to sequential data.
  • Strong proficiency with transformer architectures on event or transaction sequences.
  • Strong foundation in mathematical statistics and probability theory.
  • Deep understanding of machine learning algorithms including GBM, MLP, CNN, RNN, and Transformers.
  • Experience taking large models into production environments with distributed training and model serving.
  • Ability to balance solution complexity with practical business applicability.
  • Strong academic background in mathematics, physics, or computer science from a top technical university.
  • Experience developing models in banking or consumer lending is a plus.
  • Proven achievements such as Kaggle Master/Grandmaster status is a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Build an end-to-end foundation model over financial event sequences and fine-tune for downstream tasks like underwriting, fraud detection, and collections.
  • Drive technical decisions through the entire lifecycle from methodology to implementation, robustness, and regulatory compliance.
  • Manage the transition of models from research to production, including training infrastructure, evaluation, model serving, and monitoring.
  • Research state-of-the-art approaches and represent the team at industry conferences.
  • Mentor senior engineers and scientists while establishing technical standards for design and deployment.
  • Communicate modeling results to cross-functional stakeholders including product, risk, and leadership teams.
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