Applied Scientist / Applied ML Engineer

The Role

We are looking for an Applied Scientist / Applied ML Engineer to design, build, and deploy machine learning models that power pricing, bidding, and decisioning on a cross-border payments platform. This role owns problems end to end, from formulation to production, and partners closely with Product and Backend Engineering.

Key Responsibilities

1. End-to-End ML Ownership
2. Own end-to-end ML solutions for pricing, bidding, and risk decisioning.
3. Formulate model objectives from first principles, including loss functions, constraints, and metrics, and implement them as production-grade services.
4. Experimentation & Iteration
5. Design and run experiments, including A/B tests and offline evaluations, and iterate with clear success metrics.
6. Production Monitoring
7. Monitor models in production, investigate regressions, and continuously improve performance.

Requirements

Essential

• 3-7 years of experience as an ML Engineer, Applied Scientist, or Data Scientist in industry.
• Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Statistics, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong Python skills, including pandas, NumPy, and scikit-learn, plus at least one of PyTorch, TensorFlow.
• Strong ML fundamentals, including supervised and unsupervised learning, model evaluation, regularization, feature engineering, and statistics.
• Experience designing models from first principles and shipping them to production, in batch or real-time.
• Hands-on experience with data pipelines and ETL, such as Airflow or Spark, and strong SQL for feature engineering.
• Experience integrating ML into REST or gRPC APIs and microservice architectures.
• Ability to design and interpret experiments with statistical rigor.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills, and the ability to work effectively in cross-functional and distributed teams.

Nice to Have

• Optimization, bandits, or decision-making under uncertainty, including dynamic pricing and bid optimization.
• Bidding, auctions, marketplace, or recommendation systems experience.
• Fintech background, including payments, cross-border, lending, trading, or risk and scoring.
• Fraud, AML, credit risk, or vendor risk scoring models.
• Model explainability tooling, including SHAP and feature importance, for auditable decisions.
• Cloud experience (AWS, GCP, or Azure), Docker, and MLOps basics such as model registry and CI/CD.

What We Offer

• Real ML in production with direct impact on pricing, risk, and vendor decisions at scale.
• Ownership of core models with room to influence architecture and roadmap.
• Strong engineering peers and complex optimization problems in a high-growth fintech.

Equal Opportunities Statement

Tolken is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.