Intelletec has partnered with a fast-growing startup (recently raised $18m) seeking a Founding Chief Scientist to help unlock liquidity for the multi-trillion-dollar, uncorrelated asset class of litigation finance.
As a Founding Chief Scientist, you will play a critical role in leading the development of new models and software products in collaboration with an interdisciplinary team of engineers, designers, and lawyers.
If you are passionate about joining a startup as Founding Chief Scientist this could be a great opportunity.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the development of new models and software products
- Scale up the existing data pipeline
- Leverage proprietary AI-augmented predictive analytics
- Work with some of the world's largest institutional investors, law firms, and companies
Skills:
- Proven experience working with complex, unstructured datasets composed primarily of textual data
- 4+ years of industry experience as both a Data Scientist, & Data Engineer
- 1+ year of leading technical teams or equivalent project management experience
- Bachelor’s degree, ideally Masters in statistics, computer science, mathematics, or another equivalent quantitative discipline
- Python (NumPy, Pandas, Sklearn, Matplotlib)
- Experience with cleaning and summarizing tabular data (e.g., extensive experience with tools such as Pandas)
- Experience with text processing (e.g., regular expressions) and web scraping
- Basic AWS services (EC2, S3, etc)
- Ideally Fintech/consumer experience (b2b marketplace)
On offer:
- Base salary up to $150k with strong equity
- Remote working options
