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Upstart is hiring a Principal Applied Scientist

About the Role

You will shape the long-term technical strategy for core decisioning and conversion modeling systems, aligning cross-team efforts to ensure models consider downstream impacts, marketplace dynamics, and customer outcomes.

Responsibilities

  • Establish the technical roadmap for interconnected offer decisioning across partnerships, continuous systems, and marketplace-wide optimization
  • Develop and oversee modeling strategies that optimize decisions across the full customer journey, not just isolated stages
  • Ensure stage-specific models and policies incorporate downstream effects, business limitations, and future optimization possibilities
  • Create clear interfaces between decision engines and components handling optimization or constraint definitions
  • Lead technical alignment across teams managing related but fragmented system components
  • Lead complex, open-ended projects requiring advanced modeling insight and systems-level reasoning
  • Collaborate with technical and non-technical partners to turn analytical findings into scalable, production-ready solutions
  • Guide cross-domain initiatives toward a cohesive decisioning architecture and unified strategy
  • Directly contribute to implementation through model prototyping, code reviews, and supporting deployment into live environments

Work Arrangement

Hybrid — Remote, Columbus, Austin, Bay Area, New York City

Team

East/West coast time zones

Other

  • Most work can be done remotely, but employees are expected to engage in meaningful in-person collaboration through periodic onsite gatherings
  • Teams typically convene once or twice per quarter for 2–4 days of focused in-person meetings
  • For roles located in Canada, we are unable to hire candidates in Quebec at this time
  • The team operates across East and West coast time zones
About company
Upstart
Upstart is the leading AI lending marketplace partnering with banks and credit unions to expand access to affordable credit. By leveraging Upstart's AI marketplace, Upstart-powered banks and credit unions can have higher approval rates and lower loss rates across races, ages, and genders, while simultaneously delivering the exceptional digital-first lending experience their customers demand.
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Job Details
Department Machine Learning Department
Category other
Posted 3 months ago