Data Scientist III

About the Team

We are the AI team. We are a fast-growing team and key to WEX’s strategic vision to incorporate artificial intelligence into the fabric of our company. On our team you will not only be working with the latest AI technologies and algorithms, you will be working in a dynamic environment alongside our stakeholders and domain experts to build models and drive better decision-making and new products. We are an informal group that likes to work together. We believe that the best work is driven by purpose and a fun and engaging work environment.

How You’ll Make an Impact

• You are driven to do great work. You love learning new things and solving complex problems with data tools and algorithms. You believe that communication and relationships are key to success alongside your data and machine learning prowess.
• We are looking for someone really rare and we know it. We understand that in some cases you may not exactly check off one of our boxes, but we are interested in knowing how you think that your experience or skills either cover the items below even if in a non-traditional way.

Experience You’ll Bring

• 3+ years of experience as a data scientist, machine learning engineer, applied scientist or analyst with evidence of either thesis work or project work using a computational, model-driven approach to data problems
• Experience being an effective member in a mixed team of technical and non-technical colleagues
• Understanding of empirical research methods
• Evidence of creative problem solving
• Experience in the financial industry a plus
• Command of analytics-based scripting tools and libraries such as Python (pandas, numpy, sklearn, tensorflow, etc.), R, Julia
• Strong knowledge of SQL
• Understanding of statistical tests and which to apply when
• Command of probability concepts: distributions, Bayesian inference, maximum likelihood estimation, etc.
• Familiarity with various machine learning algorithms
• Understanding of data splitting techniques and generalization
• Python, Pandas, Data Science, Machine Learning, Statistical Learning, Applied Mathematics