6+ years of experience in data science, applied ML, or a related quantitative field, with a track record of shipping models into production
Deep, hands-on understanding of ML infrastructure: model registries, feature stores, serving architectures, monitoring/observability for models, and retraining pipelines
Strong experience designing evaluation frameworks and evals for ML systems;, including offline metrics and ongoing production evaluation
Comfortable operating as a hybrid DS/infrastructure practitioner:, someone who doesn't hand a model off to a platform team and walk away, but who can own it end to end when needed
Experience helping establish or mature ML practices, standards, or infrastructure within a team and company
Strong programming skills in Python, with solid SQL
Comfortable making infrastructure trade-off decisions jointly with data/platform engineers, and able to speak credibly on both the modeling and systems sides
Experience with statistical modeling, machine learning techniques, and experiment design
Excellent communication skills; able to influence technical direction and bring both technical and non-technical stakeholders along
Experience with RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) systems, vector databases, or building/deploying agents
Experience with OCR, document understanding, or other unstructured data extraction problems
Familiarity with workflow orchestrators such as Airflow, Dagster, or Prefect
Experience with cloud ML platforms (GCP Vertex AI, AWS SageMaker, or similar)
Comfort with containerization and Kubernetes for model deployment
Experience with BI tools such as Omni or Power BI
Background in fintech, banking, or financial services data
Experience mentoring or growing a DS/ML team
Python, Snowflake, DBT, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, MLflow, Terraform, Prometheus, Google Cloud Services, Omni, Hex, PowerBI