Senior Data Scientist

Daily Pay

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Work type
On-site
Location
New York, NY
Salary
$136,000–$209,000 / yr
Posted
99 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $159k
This role $172k
$91k most similar roles pay here $227k

This role pays more than 67% of similar roles. Most pay $126,800–$191,250 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $172k versus about $159k for comparable roles.

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About Daily Pay

DailyPay is an employee financial wellness platform that allows workers to access their earned wages before payday, helping employers improve retention and financial well-being for their employees. Industry: Financial Technology & Employee Benefits

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TL;DR · Senior Data Scientist

Senior Data Scientist joins the Data Science team as a high-impact individual contributor to build and maintain models and decision systems that personalize the user experience. This role involves developing machine learning models for on-demand pay balance optimization, content personalization, and fraud controls while building reliable data pipelines and features. The candidate will develop, deploy, monitor, and improve both batch and real-time models while ensuring production-grade standards for maintainability and auditability. Key requirements include over five years of experience in fintech or payments, a degree in a quantitative discipline, and proficiency in SQL and Python. The role requires expertise in modern AI, classical machine learning, statistical, and probabilistic methods to solve complex problems within a regulated consumer domain where model failures can have significant financial or compliance consequences for the end-user experience.

What does a Data Scientist earn in New York?

Median $173200 from 38 postings across 17 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Build and maintain machine learning models for user experience personalization, balance optimization, and fraud controls.
  • Develop reliable data pipelines and features for model development while identifying infrastructure gaps.
  • Deploy, monitor, and improve both batch and real-time models following production standards.
  • Translate complex business questions into well-structured data science solutions in collaboration with product teams.
  • Write clean, documented, and reproducible code for all model development and pipeline work.
  • Communicate technical model results and trade-offs to cross-functional partners as clear business outcomes.
  • Ensure high data quality standards and proactively flag issues to improve team patterns.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's or advanced degree in a quantitative discipline like computer science, machine learning, statistics, or data science.
  • 5+ years of Data Science and Machine Learning experience within fintech, payments, or a similar regulated consumer domain.
  • Proven track record of building and shipping production models that drive measurable business outcomes.
  • Advanced proficiency in SQL and Python for building and maintaining reliable feature engineering pipelines.
  • Experience with end-to-end model deployment including data pipelines, monitoring, drift detection, and A/B testing.
  • Experience owning models in production environments where failures have real financial or compliance consequences.
  • Proficiency across modern AI, classical ML, statistical, and probabilistic methods to solve business objectives.
  • Ability to write clean, well-documented, and reproducible code following standards for maintainability and auditability.

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