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# Senior Data Scientist, Methodologies at Tilt Finance

- **Company:** Tilt Finance
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $164k–$192k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-30
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/tilthq/2ee3cc88-bcc2-40c6-b6a1-8422e331ae53

## Job description

Join the Tilt team At Tilt, we see a side of people that traditional lenders miss. Our mobile-first products and machine learning-powered credit models look beyond credit scores, using over 250 real-time financial signals to recognize real potential. With millions of customers worldwide, we're not just changing how people access financial products — we're creating a new credit system that backs the working, whatever they're working toward. The opportunity At Tilt, we're constantly exploring new ways to understand financial behavior and reduce risk. The work you do in this role will go directly into the foundational models we're building for our products. We're looking for a Senior Data Scientist to join our Methodologies group — a role focused on building and advancing foundational modeling approaches. You'll build and test deep learning methods such as transformers to improve how we understand financial data and make lending decisions. This is a great role for someone who's deeply curious about new modeling techniques and wants to see their ideas make a real difference. You'll work with a small, experienced team of data scientists and engineers, taking projects from first idea to working model on financial data challenges — from credit decisioning to customer behavior! You'll also be at the forefront of how data science is practiced in the age of AI agents. Our team builds with agentic tools every day, and you'll use them in your own work and help build the specialized agents that speed up both DS and business workflows. We're looking for someone who enjoys learning, experimenting, and collaborating — a person who can connect technical exploration to meaningful business impact. If you're excited by applying new methodologies in ways that help people access fairer credit, you'll fit right in.

## How you'll make an impact

- Build, train and evaluate deep learning models on Tilt's financial data.
- Ship models and model components that plug into Tilt's existing ML pipelines to improve credit modeling and loss prediction.
- Own your projects end to end, from hypothesis to a model in use, with general direction from the team's leads.
- Work closely with data scientists, engineers, and product partners to turn your results into practical solutions.
- Run representation learning experiments — including pretraining and fine-tuning — on real financial data, with a clear design up front and an honest read on what worked.
- Share findings and help peers pick up new deep learning methods.
- Measure the impact of your models not just by accuracy, but by how they improve outcomes for Tilt's customers and partners.
- Use agentic development tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex) to speed up experimentation, feature engineering and model iteration.
- Build and improve specialized agents that support DS workflows.

## Why you're a great fit

- Hands-on experience building and training deep learning models
- Comfort working with modern ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, or similar).
- Experience applying ML to real-world problems, ideally in financial services (credit, lending, payments, or banking).
- Experience taking a project from an open question to a measurable business outcome.
- Clear, thoughtful communication — you can explain technical ideas in ways others can engage with.
- Bonus: hands-on experience building with LLMs or agent frameworks, or excitement to learn. You see agents as a way to multiply what a small, senior team can do.

Don’t meet every qualification? We care about potential over your past. If you're bringing ambition and drive to what we're building, we want to hear from you.

## What you'll get at Tilt

- Virtual-first teamwork: The Tilt team is collaborating across 14 countries, 12 time zones, and counting. You’ll get started with a WFH office reimbursement.
- Competitive pay: We're big on potential, and it's reflected in our competitive compensation packages and generous equity.
- Complete support: Find flexible health plans at every premium level, and substantial subsidies that stand up to global standards.
- Visibility is yours: You can count on direct exposure to our leadership team — we’re a team where good ideas travel quickly.
- Paid global onsites: Magic happens IRL: we gather twice yearly to reconnect over shared meals or kayaking adventures. (We’ve visited Vail, San Diego, and Mexico City, to name a few.)
- Impact is recognized: Growth opportunities follow your contributions, not rigid promotion timelines.

The Tilt Way We're looking for people who chase excellence and impact. Those who stand behind their work, celebrating the wins and learning from the missteps equally. We foster an environment where every voice is valued and mutual respect is non-negotiable — brilliant jerks need not apply. We're in this together, working to expand access to fair credit and prove that people are incredible. When you join us, it's not just another day at the [virtual] office, you're helping millions of hardworking people reach better financial futures.

You’re pushing ahead in your career? We can get behind that. Join us in building the credit system that people deserve.

## About Tilt Finance

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Tilt is a financial technology company that uses machine learning to analyze over 250 non-traditional financial signals to provide cash advances and credit cards to people overlooked by traditional credit scoring.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series D, backed by Sequoia Capital)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2016
- **Founders**: Warren Hogarth (Co-Founder & CEO), Jan Chong (Co-Founder & CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Financial Services, Consumer Fintech, Alternative Credit
- **Target customers**: B2C — underbanked and credit-invisible consumers in the U.S., Brazil, India, the Philippines, and Mexico who lack reliable access to fair credit.
- **Mission**: "We're building a new credit system to prove it." — Backing the hard work people do, whatever they're working toward, by expanding access to cash and credit.

## Products & Services
- **Cash Advance**: Mobile-first cash advance product that provides instant access to funds directly to a bank account with automated, flexible repayment. Evaluates creditworthiness using real-time income and spending data, not just credit scores.
- **Thrive Line of Credit**: A credit-building line of credit product that rewards consistent on-time payments with offer increases and larger lines.
- **Petal Credit Cards**: Credit cards designed for people with thin or no credit history, using machine learning underwriting to assess financial health.
- **NIRA**: A credit product serving the Indian market, built in collaboration with local financial institutions.
- **Cashalo**: A credit product serving the Philippine market, embedded in local financial ecosystems.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed; named by Forbes as one of the "Next Billion-Dollar Startups" in 2024.
- **Key Metric**: Over $1 billion in total cash and credit accessed via the platform; over 5 million customers; 450,000+ 5-star reviews.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sequoia Capital (lead investor), Blisce, Icon Ventures.
- **Growth Signals**: Ranked #65 on Inc. 5000’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies list (third year in a row in the top 100). Named Forbes America's Best Startup Employers (2023). Thrive product was named Fast Company's Next Big Things in Tech (2022). Active expansion into Brazil (hiring Head of Credit for Brazil), India (NIRA), Philippines (Cashalo), and Mexico.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary Underwriting Engine**: Uses 250+ non-traditional signals of financial health (real-time income, spending patterns, gig economy activity) rather than legacy credit scores, enabling it to serve tens of millions of people that traditional lenders decline.
- **Machine Learning & Data Moat**: The scale of data (over 5M customers) creates a significant feedback loop for model accuracy — the more people they approve and track, the smarter their risk models become.
- **Multi-Product Ecosystem**: Not a single product lender; they offer cash advances, lines of credit, and credit cards, allowing them to graduate customers upward as their financial health improves, increasing lifetime value.
- **Global Expansion First-Mover**: Actively launching localized credit products in Brazil, India, Philippines, and Mexico, which gives them a head start in underbanked markets where incumbents are slow to innovate.

## Strategic Focus
- **Global Expansion**: Building country-specific credit products (NIRA in India, Cashalo in Philippines) and hiring leadership for new markets like Brazil and Mexico.
- **Agentic AI Integration**: Hiring an "Agentic AI Lead (Business Transformation)" — suggesting they are building AI agents to automate credit decisions, customer support, and risk operations.
- **Product Deepening**: Expanding from cash advances and credit cards into broader lines of credit and larger loan products as customers build history with the platform.
- **Regulatory & Compliance Scaling**: Hiring corporate counsel, compliance leads for new geographies (Mexico, Brazil), reflecting a push into regulated financial landscapes.

## Why Work Here
- **Virtual-first culture with global team**: Collaborating across 14 countries, 12 time zones. Remote-first but with twice-yearly global onsites ("Magic happens IRL: we gather twice a year to reconnect over a shared meal or a kayaking adventure").
- **Low-meeting culture**: "Give us the data-driven recommendation on Slack over the meeting and multi slide deck." — emphasizes asynchronous communication and deep work.
- **Full health coverage**: Flexible plans at every premium level with substantial subsidies that "stand up to global standards."
- **Home office subsidy**: Funded to get the gear you need.
- **Flexible time off**: Unlimited PTO with an emphasis on taking time to "stay at the top of your game."
- **Competitive pay**: "Above-market compensation" with growth opportunities following contributions, not rigid promotion timelines.
- **Diverse backgrounds welcome**: Explicitly states no prior experience in consumer finance required — they value diverse, unique backgrounds. All backgrounds welcome.
- **Feedback culture**: "Up, down, sideways — we help each other grow with honest, constructive conversations."
- **Global hiring**: Active open roles across the U.S. (remote), Brazil (remote), India (hybrid Bengaluru), Philippines (hybrid Manila), Mexico (remote), Australia (remote), and the EU (remote).

## Sources
1. [tilt.com](https://tilt.com/)
2. [tilt.com/about](https://tilt.com/about)
3. [tilt.com/careers](https://tilt.com/careers)
4. [linkedin.com/company/tilthq](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tilthq)
5. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/empower)
6. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/tilthq](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/tilthq)

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