Senior Data Scientist, Taktile
2+ days a week in office
Cloud native AI software for the financial services industry
Be an early applicant
Cloud native AI software for the financial services industry
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
2+ days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
Taktile's mission is to accelerate the adoption of Machine Learning technology in the financial industry.
Role
Who you are
- If you are passionate about applying machine learning in production, thrive in a collaborative environment, and are eager to make a tangible impact on financial services at a global scale, this role is tailor-made for you
- You’re an expert in end-to-end data science solution delivery, including requirement gathering, data exploration, modelling, and deployment
- You have strong experience deploying machine learning models in production, and you’re familiar with the operational demands of maintaining these systems at scale
- You’ve had exposure to the financial services industry before and you’re excited to solve some of the industries most pressing problems with AI (fraud, money laundering, etc.)
- You thrive in a customer-facing role where you solve complex technical challenges while engaging closely with internal and external stakeholders to drive value
- You’re a humble individual with a growth mindset, eager to learn and integrate the latest advancements in data science and machine learning
What the job involves
- To help us deliver our vision, we are seeking talented and experienced Lead Data Scientist
- At Taktile, machine learning and data science is a crucial component of our customer value proposition
- As a Lead Data Scientist, you will shape a growing function to deliver cutting-edge, scalable data science solutions to banks and fintechs worldwide
- You’ll collaborate closely with customers, as well as Taktile's customer-facing product- and engineering teams to ensure our platform and AI modules address real-world challenges
- Your work will impact millions of business-critical decisions every day
- Forward-deployed ML engineering: Train, test, and deploy machine learning models that are tailored towards customer-specific use cases in the financial services industry
- ML operations: Deploy and maintain machine learning models in production, ensuring scalability, reliability, and compliance with stringent operational demands
- Project management: Lead the delivery of bespoke data science solutions for our customers, including requirements gathering, data exploration, feature engineering, modeling, deployment and handover to customer teams as part of larger customer engagements (pilots and implementation)
- Product & AI strategy: Work closely with our product teams to develop and refine AI modules such as off-the-shelf AML and fraud models, transaction labelling models based on LLMs etc. for the Taktile platform, ensuring seamless integration and robust functionality
- Mentorship: Share knowledge and expertise with team members, fostering a collaborative and high-performing environment
Our take
Taktile’s goal is to ultimately enable its enterprise customers in the financial services industry to adopt machine learning (ML) technology and deliver ML applications. Whilst ML may seem old news, enterprise level businesses in the financial services have been slow to adopt it due to a shortage of expertise, IT resources, and regulatory freedom. The wealth of granular data at their fingertips has, therefore, gone underutilised. With Taktile, these organisations can easily deploy, maintain, and monitor ML applications on a single platform, finally putting crucial ML tools in the hands of enterprise level businesses.
Whilst Taktile is still a young company, it has inspired impressive confidence in some high-profile backers, including Y Combinator, and the founders of industry behemoths like Datadog and Github. Presumably, this is in anticipation of the reported wave of AI transformation about to break over the financial services - nearly 90% of financial services execs, by one report, plan on boosting their AI investments over the coming years.
Platforms like Taktile may well prove a crucial facilitating force in this rising tide, and a fertile ground for new innovation - alternatively, enterprises could follow the lead of more agile startups and take their ML development in-house. The latter may, in fact, seem a more attractive long-term solution, so Taktile will need to ensure its platform remains convincingly superior. However, evidence of sustained investor interest in Taktile came from its November 22 Series A funding to the sum of $20 million.
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Nov 2022
$20m
SERIES A
Aug 2021
$4.7m
SEED
Total funding: $24.7m
Company benefits
- Work with colleagues that lift you up, challenge you, celebrate you and help you grow. We come from many different backgrounds, but what we have in common is the desire to operate at the very top of our fields. If you are similarly capable, caring, and driven, you'll find yourself at home here
- Make an impact and meaningfully shape an early-stage company
- Experience a truly flat hierarchy and communicate directly with founding team members. Having an opinion and voicing your ideas is not only welcome but encouraged, especially when they challenge the status quo
- Learn from experienced mentors and achieve tremendous personal and professional growth. Get to know and leverage our network of leading tech investors and advisors around the globe
- Receive a top-of-market compensation package
- Get access to a self-development budget you can use to e.g. attend conferences, buy books or take classes
- Use the equipment of your choice including meaningful home office setup during the COVID-19 pandemic
Company values
- Passionate Responsibility - We all behave like owners, take individual responsibility for achieving Taktile's goals, and do what we have to in order to succeed
- Growth Mindset - We are intellectually curious, want to get better individually and as a team, and inspire others with our thirst for growth
- Desire For Impact - We want to do things that matter for the world and contribute to a bigger picture.
- Creative Pragmatism - We care about solving problems in the most effective possible way. We know when innovation is necessary, but don't re-invent the wheel.
Company HQ
Battery Park City, New York, NY
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Leadership
Maximilian Eber
(CPTO & Co-founder)With a PhD in Philosophy from Harvard University, he went on to on Machine Learning and Causal Inference at QuantCo.
Maik Taro Wehmeyer
(CEO & Co-Founder)Currently Member at European Commission, Founding Member at KI Bundesverband e.V. Previously Machine Learning Engineer at QuantCo and Research Associate at Harvard Business School.
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