Quantifind · 8 hours ago
Associate Data Scientist
Washington, DC
Full-time
Hybrid
Entry Level
$100K/yr - $130K/yr
1+ years expQuantifind is a data science technology company that helps financial institutions combat money laundering and fraud. They are seeking an Associate Data Scientist to collaborate with team members and stakeholders to develop and implement machine learning models, analyze large datasets, and maintain high standards of scientific and engineering practices.
AnalyticsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Big DataFinTechSoftware
Responsibilities
Collaborating with fellow team members and key stakeholders, such as, Product Managers, Platform Engineers to explore ideas, test hypotheses, and prototype solutions
Working in an agile environment breaking down complex problems into smaller manageable tasks with the help of your teammates and manager
Leveraging SQL, Python and PySpark to analyze large unstructured data sets to answer key business questions, inform next steps or set up modeling tasks
Writing complex pipeline code often involving NLP enrichment steps to process large data sets
Training machine learning models to solve complex problems
Productionizing models in a Scala codebase following software engineering best practices
Validating models using standard and custom performance metrics
Leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) to scale up various data science tasks (for example: data labeling, extracting structured information, …)
Participating in code reviews
Qualification
Required
MS or higher in the following areas: Statistics, Mathematics, or Computer Science
At least 1 year of professional industry experience, in addition to your academic experience
Outstanding analytical skills and the ability to communicate quantitative results to technical and non-technical audiences
Strong knowledge of Statistics/Probability/Machine Learning including core concepts of hypothesis testing, inference, bias-variance trade-off, regularization, dimensionality reduction etc
Supervised and unsupervised statistical techniques such as regression, classification, and clustering
Experience with popular machine learning algorithms such as random forests, Boosting, and neural networks
Strong programming experience in Python and one or more of the following: Scala/Java or R
Experience with SQL and/or Spark
Knowledge of data structures and algorithm complexity
Preferred
Experience with Applied NLP methods such as topic modeling, text classification, word embeddings, and named entity extraction is a strong plus
Benefits
Competitive salary
Company Equity
Exceptional benefits package
Flexible Vacation & Paid Time Off
Employer-matched 401(k) plan
A fun environment where work-life balance is valued
Company
Quantifind
Quantifind is a risk intelligence company that offers AI solutions for emerging threat detection and watchlist screening.
51-200 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (4)
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$113.32MKey Investors
DNS CapitalCathay InnovationRedpoint
2025-01-16Series Unknown· $22M
2023-03-01Series Unknown· $23M
2021-02-01Series Unknown· $22M
Leadership Team
Ari Tuchman
CEO and Co-Founder
John Stockton
Co-founder
Recent News
2026-01-07
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