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Senior Research Scientist

Senior Research Scientist

CompanyDiscover
LocationWheeling, IL, USA
Salary$91500 – $127900
TypeFull-Time
DegreesBachelor’s
Experience LevelSenior

Requirements

  • Bachelors Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Engineering, Econometrics, Information Technology, Analytics, Business Administration and Management or related
  • 1+ years Academic ResearchTeaching experience or financial industry modeling experience with research focus

Responsibilities

  • Develop innovative analytical and machine learning solutions to solve business-related problems.
  • Perform rigorous numerical, statistical, and mathematical analysis of developed and existing (peer-reviewed) methodologies as benchmark under guidance of more experienced research scientists.
  • Propose and validate hypotheses and solutions to improve current ML methodologies at Discover.
  • Prepare and validate prototypical code of innovative solutions in Python/Java/C++/R etc.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Bachelors Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Engineering, Econometrics, Information Technology, Analytics, Business Administration and Management or related