Senior Data Scientist, Circle

Machine Learning

$147.5-195k

Plus Annual Bonus Target: 12.5%

SQL
Python
R
Senior level
Los Angeles

More information about location

Circle

Global crypto finance company

Open for applications

Circle

Global crypto finance company

1001+ employees

FintechB2BCryptocurrencyBankingPaymentsDeep TechFinancial ServicesSaaSBlockchainWeb 3.0

Open for applications

$147.5-195k

Plus Annual Bonus Target: 12.5%

SQL
Python
R
Senior level
Los Angeles

More information about location

1001+ employees

FintechB2BCryptocurrencyBankingPaymentsDeep TechFinancial ServicesSaaSBlockchainWeb 3.0

Company mission

To raise global economic prosperity through the frictionless exchange of value.

Role

Who you are

  • Multistakeholder - you have dedication and commitment to our customers, shareholders, employees and families and local communities
  • Mindful - you seek to be respectful, an active listener and to pay attention to detail
  • Driven by Excellence - you are driven by our mission and our passion for customer success which means you relentlessly pursue excellence, that you do not tolerate mediocrity and you work intensely to achieve your goals
  • High Integrity - you seek open and honest communication, and you hold yourself to very high moral and ethical standards. You reject manipulation, dishonesty and intolerance
  • 5+ years of experience in data analysis or data science, with 3+ years focusing on machine learning problems, ideally in a relevant space (KYC, sanctions detection, anti-fraud detection, treasury management, crypto/blockchain data science)
  • Proficiency in SQL and at least one programming language, such as R or Python, for data manipulation and analysis
  • Deep knowledge of machine learning, both theory and application
  • Proven experience in planning and driving productionalized machine learning models
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail
  • Strong communication skills to convey complex findings and insights to both technical and non-technical partners

What the job involves

  • As our first Data Science hire focusing on Machine Learning at Circle, you’ll start by focusing on two critical problems: helping identify transactions and actors who might be acting illicitly and helping us better balance our reserves across a series of accounts to reduce systemic risk inside the company
  • These problems are core to our identity as a safe and compliant actor in the crypto space and we are trying to come up with the best methods and techniques possible to solve these problems
  • In addition, we would like you to undertake additional research and work to help understand these problems, visualize what we’re doing, as well as sometimes venture into other spaces to help understand how our business works
  • While the focus of this job will be machine learning applications, there are times where we need to use data science to solve other problems and machine learning is not the only or optimal option
  • Own development, improvement, and maintenance of the two problems described above: helping identify transactions and actors who might be acting illicitly and helping us better balance our reserves across a series of accounts to reduce systemic risk inside the company. You’ll partner with product, treasury, fellow data scientists, and data engineering to understand these problems, help produce the necessary model inputs, build models at the right fidelity and frequency, help push these into production, and monitor the health and success of these models
  • Identify and work on other machine learning problems that will be highly valuable to Circle
  • When not working on machine learning models, Identify data; define metrics and analyze needs for business partners; Initiate, develop and maintain data pipelines and data models that powers dashboards and data products with outstanding craftsmanship
  • Perform deep analyses and build models to understand customer behavior, and extract key insights that impact product decisions
  • Perform analyses and build models to understand customer behavior, extracting key insights and communicating to stakeholders to impact product decisions
  • Communicate the state of business, experiments results and recommendations to a broad team and senior leadership
  • Data collection and analysis of blockchain activity to understand trading activity, incentives, and how USDC fits in to the broader crypto ecosystem

Otta's take

Sam Franklin headshot

Sam Franklin

CEO of Otta

Circle is a financial technology firm looking to enable businesses to harness the power of digital currencies and public blockchains for payments, commerce, and financial applications. The company’s USD Coin (USDC) has become the fastest growing, regulated, and fully reserved dollar digital currency.

The company is backed by the world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, as well as crypto exchange company Coinbase, and has been proactively preparing for possible upcoming federal regulations. Regardless of the current crypto downturn, this means that Circle is still well-placed to see steady long-term growth.

Insights

Top investors

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

19% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)

Apr 2022

$400m

GROWTH EQUITY VC

May 2021

$440m

GROWTH EQUITY VC

Total funding: $1.1bn

Company benefits

  • We offer flexible paid time off — so you can thrive at work, and at rest
  • No matter where you live, we offer a market competitive suite of health benefits to help keep you and your loved ones safe
  • Work Remotely: Do your best work from home. With a company laptop, stipend for business equipment, and access to WeWork locations, Circle remote jobs empower our employees to do their best work.
  • All U.S. employees enjoy 401(k) benefits with company matching, and can become owners in Circle through our equity program

Company values

  • Multistakeholder - We must organize, incentivize and measure ourselves against meeting the needs of all of our stakeholders
  • Mindful - We seek to be present and aware, to be respectful, active listeners (with each other and with our customers alike), and pay attention to detail
  • Driven by Excellence - We relentlessly pursue excellence, we do not tolerate mediocrity, we reward based on merit, and we work intensely to achieve our goals
  • High Integrity - We seek open and honest communication, and hold ourselves to very high moral and ethical standards

Company HQ

South Boston Waterfront, Boston, MA

Founders

Founder & former Chairman and CEO of Brightcove. Former Entrepreneur in Residence at General Catalyst Partners, CTO of Macromedia, and Co-Founder & former CTO of Allaire Corporation.

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