Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Courtyard.io is a fast-growing collectibles startup revolutionizing collectibles trading. They are seeking a Staff Data Scientist to own pricing across their portfolio collectibles, focusing on building and improving pricing methodology and collaborating with various teams on pricing-related decisions.
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve pricing models across asset categories, including designing approaches for new and sparsely-traded asset types
- Build data quality and anomaly detection systems for adversarial and corrupted external data inputs
- Ship production code into our pricing pipeline and services in partnership with engineering
- Partner with operations, finance, and product on pricing-related decisions across the company
Skills
- Strong foundations in applied statistics, economics, or signal processing — robust estimation, state-space models, sparse/hierarchical data, anomaly detection, and uncertainty quantification
- Backgrounds of interest: quantitative trading, fraud/anomaly detection, computational neuroscience or physics — in addition to traditional pricing or marketplace DS
- Track record owning a production scoring or pricing system end-to-end
- Production-grade Python and SQL; comfort working inside a real codebase and shipping models into continuously-running services
- Experience with sparse, irregular, heterogeneous, or adversarial data
- Pragmatism about modeling — right tool for the data you actually have
- 5+ years of industry experience or Ph.d
- Experience sourcing heterogeneous external data via API or scraping
Benefits
- Comprehensive health insurance packages with dependent coverage
- Competitive salary with ample opportunities for career advancement and development
- Enjoy the flexibility of a fully remote work environment
- 401(k) plan with a 4% employer match to help you plan for the future
- $100 monthly dogfooding stipend to support trying out our products firsthand
- Access to employee wellness programs designed to support your overall well-being
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