# Senior Data Scientist (Applied ML)

At NerdWallet, our mission is to provide clarity for all of life's financial decisions. Data Science plays a critical role in delivering on that mission, helping us better understand our consumers, personalize their experiences, and connect them with the financial products that best meet their needs. We’re growing, and we’re looking for a Senior Data Scientist (Applied ML) to join us as a foundational member of our new team. You’ll help shape and advance our machine learning capabilities across consumer personalization, predictive modeling, and performance marketing, with a real voice in how we work from day one. Together, we’re building an inclusive, supportive team culture where we lift each other up and succeed together to drive business impact across the organization. In this role, you will lead the development of production-grade machine learning solutions that power some of NerdWallet's most critical business decisions. From predicting customer lifetime value and scoring incoming leads in real time to developing recommendation engines that connect consumers with the right financial products, your work will have a direct impact on how we acquire, engage, and monetize our custo

- **Id**: 3770638
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/nerdwallet-senior-data-scientist-applied-ml>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: posting_text
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T20:06:20Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T14:34:22Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 3
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 8166
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: 401k plan, Life insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Artificial Intelligence, Personal Finance Apps & Education, Financial Comparison & Loan Marketplaces, Financial News & Media

## Company

- **Id**: 7244
- **Name**: NerdWallet
- **Domain**: nerdwallet.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/nerdwallet>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 91
- **Open postings**: 7
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.571
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 21
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 136000
- **Max**: 252000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 252000

## Technologies

- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Databricks** — Optional: no
- **LightGBM** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **MLFlow** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **Recommender Systems** — Optional: no
- **Scikit-learn** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **TensorFlow** — Optional: no
- **Wi-Fi** — Optional: no
- **XGBoost** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 3

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T21:28:26Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 9 · green card filings: 5; Filings 12m: 9

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 3
- **Expected fill days**: 21
- **Reasons**: conf:3, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 252000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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