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Job Overview
Location
New York City (Hybrid)
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Data Science
Date Posted
June 30, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • Lead Data Scientist role at Brigit Inc., a holistic financial health company dedicated to helping everyday Americans build a brighter financial future through transparent, fair, and simple financial products.
- • Day-to-day responsibilities include building, testing, and deploying underwriting and risk models, fraud and payment models, owning the full modeling lifecycle from conception to production, contributing to best practices in feature development and model monitoring, analyzing customer base shifts, mentoring junior data scientists, and collaborating across Data Science, Analytics, Product, and Engineering teams.
- • Brigit is a recognized innovator in fintech, honored by Built In, Fast Company, Business Insider, and Forbes for its workplace culture and impact, operating in a high-growth, dynamic startup environment with a mission-driven team.
- • The role offers the opportunity to make meaningful impact on financial wellness for 100M Americans, develop expertise in end-to-end ML solutions, grow leadership skills through mentoring, and work with rich, structured data to solve real-world problems in credit risk, fraud detection, and payment optimization.
🎯 Requirements
- • 6+ years of experience doing data science (modeling + analysis)
- • Advanced degree in data science, statistics, computer science, or related field
- • Proven expertise in machine learning principles and techniques
- • Experience in Python, using industry-standard modeling toolkits like sklearn, JupyterLab, pandas, matplotlib, statsmodels, etc.
- • Experience writing complex SQL queries and combining multiple data sources
- • Experience creating training datasets, training models, tuning hyperparameters, performing validation, running A/B tests in production, and owning performance and model monitoring
- • Ability to work effectively and communicate ideas/code clearly in cross-functional teams (Engineering, Product, Business)
- • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with ability to explain complex concepts to various audiences
🏖️ Benefits
- • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- • Flexible PTO Policy
- • 401k plan
- • Paid Parental Leave
- • Physical and mental wellbeing benefits including Wellhub and Headspace
- • Monthly reimbursements for wifi and cell phone bills
- • Annual reimbursement for Learning & Development
- • Opportunity to help hardworking Americans build a brighter financial future
- • High-growth company with a dynamic, flexible, and collaborative startup environment
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About Brigit Inc.
Brigit Inc. provides a mobile app that offers small-dollar cash advances, automated budgeting, credit-building tools, and financial insights to help users avoid overdraft fees and improve their financial health. The platform connects to users’ bank accounts, predicts upcoming expenses and low balances, and delivers advances of up to $250 without interest or late fees. Brigit generates revenue through optional monthly membership subscriptions and earns interchange income on its debit card. The company partners with FDIC-insured banks to hold customer funds and issue advances, while its proprietary algorithms assess cash-flow risk in real time.
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