Senior Data Engineer, Predictive Modeling
Carvana
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Carvana is an e-commerce platform for buying and selling used cars, offering customers a fully online purchasing experience with home delivery, financing, and vehicle trade-ins through its network of automated car vending machines and inspection centers.
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Senior Data Scientist, Predictive Modeling, Credit & Risk joins the Credit & Risk modeling team to develop, validate, and productionize high-impact predictive models that inform risk assessment and decisioning across the business. The role involves improving core credit and risk models through incremental advancements in accuracy and robustness by leveraging structured and unstructured data sources. Key responsibilities include designing, training, and deploying advanced machine learning models such as gradient boosting, representation learning, embeddings, and transformer-based approaches. Candidates must possess 5-8+ years of experience building production models, with proficiency in Python, SQL, LightGBM, and XGBoost. The role requires strong statistical intuition to manage bias/variance tradeoffs while translating complex modeling problems into scalable production systems. This position addresses critical business challenges within the credit, risk, fraud, and underwriting domains by creating reusable patterns for broader organizational use.
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