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Analytic Scientist
FICO
San Rafael, CA, United States
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FICO (NYSE: FICO)
is a leading global analytics software company, helping businesses in 90+ countries make better decisions. Join our world-class team today and fulfill your career potential!
Job Summary
Role
: Analytic Science-Scientist 2
The Opportunity
"As part of a team, you will participate in product innovation by developing, maintaining, and providing analytic support for new Scores products to support the company's core business unit. Business problems will be tackled using the latest technologies in data mining and predictive modeling." Quote from Principal Scientist.
What you’ll contribute:
• Designs and develops state-of-the-art, data-driven exploratory analysis as well as predictive and decision models to solve business problems.
• Builds and evaluates predictive and decision models to be deployed in production systems, or for research.
• This includes the analysis of large amounts of historical data, determining suitability for modeling, data clean-up, pattern identification and variable creation, selection of sampling criteria and performance definition, and variable selection.
• Experiments with different types of algorithms and models, analyzing performance to identify the best algorithms to employ.
• Assists with technical product support for new or existing products/services; this includes, but is not limited to, production of sales collateral or ad-hoc investigations initiated by internal or external clients.
• May participate in pre-sales support and/or provide post-implementation support.
• May deliver formal presentations of work to clients.
What we’re seeking
• Bachelor's degree in applied mathematics, statistics, operations research, engineering, computer science or related technical discipline. Course work in probability, statistics and quantitative methods required.
• Related experience (school or industry) in predictive modeling and data mining is preferred.
• Experience with one or more of R, Python, SAS, SQL, and Java/C++, experience with tools for machine learning and unstructured data analysis (e.g., H2O, Splunk, TensorFlow, etc.) and familiarity with basic software design principles and coding standards and best practices.
• Experience with distributed computing environments (e.g., Spark, Hadoop) and cloud-based environments and services (e.g., AWS) would be a plus.
• Experience analyzing large datasets and applying data-cleaning techniques along with performing statistical analyses leading to the understanding of the structure of datasets.
• Prefer knowledge in some of the following: clustering, classification and regression trees, random forest and gradient boosting algorithms, time series analysis, Bayesian networks, PCA, independent component analysis, linear and logistic regressions, inference, estimation, experimental design, neural networks, SVM.
Our Offer to You
• A culture and work environment strongly reflecting our core values: Act Like an Owner, Delight Our Customers and Earn the Respect of Others.
• The opportunity to make a difference by leveraging your unique strengths.
• Highly competitive compensation and rewards.
• Flexible work options, opportunities to give back to your community, social events with colleagues and a comprehensive benefits program inclusive of progressive parental leave.
Why Make a Move to FICO?
At FICO, you can develop your career with a leading organization in one of the fastest-growing fields in technology today – Big Data analytics. You’ll play a part in our commitment to help businesses use data to improve every choice they make, using advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, predictive and prescriptive modeling, and much more.
FICO makes a real difference in the way businesses operate worldwide:
• Credit Scoring — 150+ billion FICO Scores have been sold to date, making it the most used credit score in the world.
• Fraud Detection and Security — 2.6+ billion payment cards globally are protected by FICO fraud systems.
• Lending — 3/4 of US mortgages are approved using the FICO Score.
• Anti-Money Laundering — our solutions check more than half a billion transactions a day to prevent criminal schemes such as terrorist financing
Global trends toward digital transformation have created tremendous demand for FICO’s solutions, placing us among the world’s top 100 software companies by revenue. We support many of the world’s largest banks, insurers, retailers, telecommunications providers and other firms reach a new level of success.
Our success is dependent on really talented people – just like you– who thrive on the collaboration and innovation that’s nurtured by a diverse and inclusive environment. We’ll provide the support you need, while ensuring you have the freedom to develop your skills and grow your career. Join FICO and help change the way business thinks!
Learn more about how you can fulfill your potential at www.fico.com/Careers
FICO values the benefit that diversity and a culture of inclusion bring to our workplace. We are an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer and we’re proud to offer employment and advancement opportunities to all applicants without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, pregnancy, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.