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Data Scientist - Payments

United States, New York 162000.00 - 222000.00 USD / Year · Job Posted February 04, 2026
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We're looking for data scientists with experience applying state-of-the-art data analytics techniques to different product areas. You’ll be a data scientist as a part of the Data organization, contributing to diverse, high-impact data insights and machine learning challenges. Specifically, you will focus on driving business impact, and production directions through data analysis and potentially help evaluate and improve ML solutions and systems.

Job Responsibility

  • Applying your expertise in quantitative analysis, data mining, and data visualization to find insights for improving our API products
  • Conducting large-scale A/B experiments
  • Identifying useful signals that can be fed into machine learning models
  • Informing and influencing product and engineering teams through your data analysis and presentations
  • Making long-term data science roadmap decisions like how machine learning and data science iteration should be done at Plaid
  • Championing a data-first approach toward decision-making across the entire organization

Requirements

  • 3+ years of industry experience in a product-focused Data Science role
  • Deep familiarity with SQL and data visualization tools
  • Experiencing conducting large-scale A/B experiments, analyzing results, and translating them into concrete recommendations
  • Familiarity with the AWS stack
  • Understanding of modern machine learning (ML) techniques, such as classification, clustering, optimization, deep neural network, and natural language processing
  • Proven ability to tailor your solutions to business problems in a cross-functional team
  • Ability to code and iterate independently in Python to conduct exploratory data analysis
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience in Computer Science, Statistics, Engineering, Economics, or a closely related field

Nice to have

Experience building data pipelines in DBT or Airflow is a plus

What we offer

  • medical
  • dental
  • vision
  • 401(k)
  • equity
  • commission

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