Data Scientist, Candidly
NLP
Student debt solutions
Open for applications
Student debt solutions
101-200 employees
Open for applications
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make trusted, intelligent and comprehensive solutions that enable Americans to reap the rewards of that investment so they can build financial wellness and wealth.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: 3-5 years of experience in a data science role, with a strong focus on NLP projects
- Technical Skills:
- Strong programming skills in Python and proficiency with libraries such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-Learn, NLTK, SpaCy, Transformers, and Hugging Face
- Expertise in NLP techniques such as BERT, GPT, Seq2Seq models, and transformer architectures
- Proficiency in designing and deploying NLP pipelines for named entity recognition, text classification, and text generation
- Expertise in designing and deploying machine learning models for production
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS) and tools for model deployment and orchestration
- Experience with SQL and data visualization tools is a plus
- A love of experimenting and working with new tools and technologies
- Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex concepts to non-technical stakeholders
- High adaptability and comfort working in a dynamic, fast-paced startup environment
- Proactive, with a passion for building impactful solutions that address real-world challenges
- Experience in FinTech, financial services, or consumer lending domains
- Proven track record of developing AI/ML solutions focused on user engagement or personalized recommendations
- Hands-on experience with conversational AI, reinforcement learning, or advanced NLP techniques
What the job involves
- As a Data Scientist focusing on AI at Candidly, you will work on designing, developing, and deploying AI-driven features that enhance our financial wellness platform
- You will partner closely with the product and engineering teams to create solutions that leverage natural language processing (NLP) to optimize the user experience, improve engagement, and improve operational efficiencies
- You will contribute to projects ranging from OCR to conversational AI and beyond, leveraging both structured and unstructured data to deliver innovative financial wellness tools
- LLM Product Development: Design and build machine learning models to support new product features, including AI-powered guidance, personalized product experience
- Natural Language Processing: Develop and deploy NLP-based models to extract insights from user interactions, and create intelligent financial guidance
- Text Classification & Sentiment Analysis: Develop models to classify user queries, tag content, and determine sentiment in user interactions to inform product enhancements
- Named Entity Recognition (NER): Build and train models to extract and identify specific entities from text
- Topic Modeling & Content Recommendation: Implement topic modeling techniques (e.g., LDA, BERTopic) to automatically categorize user inquiries and generate personalized content or advice
- Intent Recognition: Design and deploy models to accurately identify user intents from text or voice input, enabling more intuitive user interactions and tailored advice delivery
- Data Strategy & Engineering: Collaborate with data engineering teams to define data needs, build ETL pipelines, and deploy machine learning models in production environments
- Model Evaluation & Tuning: Conduct rigorous testing, optimization, and continuous evaluation of deployed models to ensure they deliver impactful and reliable results
- Research & Innovation: Stay on the cutting edge of AI/ML advancements and evaluate new techniques for application within the Candidly platform
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with stakeholders across product, design, engineering, and leadership to translate complex AI concepts into actionable strategies and features
- Data Storytelling: Present findings and insights in a compelling way to both technical and non-technical audiences, contributing to strategic decision-making
Our take
A lack of access to affordable higher education is causing increasing numbers of students to fall into debt. Common advice is to simply save money incrementally, but that is easier said than done. Today, over 48 million Americans struggle with over $1.75 trillion of student debt. Candidly, rebranded from FutureFuel.io, offers payment management services for student loans in the form of employee benefits.
The company collaborates with employers to make loan repayment processes easier. Candidly claims that these services help students save between $15,000 to $40,000 and reduce loan repayment time by up to 5 years. Other companies such as Tuition.io also provide employer-paid student benefits to help contribute to debt repayments. However, Candidly's unique set of digital money saving tools provide an edge over competitors by helping students make small savings that can accumulate to big debt payments.
With increasing nationwide interest in reducing student debt, the company experienced 10x revenue growth and a 3,600% increase in payments flowing through its platform through 2022. With a fresh injection of funding in March 2023, Candidly is well-positioned to shake up this field.
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Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Mar 2023
$20.5m
SERIES B
Mar 2021
$10m
SERIES A
Total funding: $49.8m
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
- 401(k)
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Student loan assistance
- Disability insurance
Company values
- Desenrascanço - We practice the art of finding a solution to a problem out of left field
- Empathy - We put the needs of our users above the bottom line
- Collaboration - We are fully remote, but never distant
- Humility - We are here to serve our users, our customers, and our shareholders
Company HQ
Midtown Manhattan, New York, NY
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Leadership
Laurel Taylor
(CEO & Chairwoman of the Board)Majored in Organizational Behaviour and Spanish at Texas State, before studying for an MBA at MIT's Sloan School. Was VP Sales at Systems Integrations Companies, and then CRO & Executive VP at TEECOM. Joined Google as Head of Industry, Health in 2013. Is a member of philanthropic organization SheGives and the Student Debt Task Force. Founded Candidly in 2016.
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