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Who We Are

Motive builds technology to improve the safety, productivity, and profitability of businesses that power the physical economy. The Motive Automated Operations Platform combines IoT hardware with AI-powered applications to automate vehicle and equipment tracking, driver safety, compliance, maintenance, spend management, and more. Motive serves more than 120,000 businesses, across a wide range of industries including trucking and logistics, construction, oil and gas, food and beverage, field service, agriculture, passenger transit, and delivery.

Motive is proud to be a Forbes Cloud 100 company and a 2020 Career-Launching Company by Wealthfront.

About the Role:

We are looking for a Staff Data Scientist to build the models that power the credit risk and fraud functions for the Motive Card, a key new focus area for Motive. The Motive Card is a corporate card natively integrated with a fleet management platform, giving businesses an all-in-one solution to automate their financial and physical operations. As a member of our team you'll help frame the problems, build models and products that win customers, and leverage machine learning at a massive scale to solidify Motive's technology lead in the connected fleet management space.

What You'll Do:

  • Work closely with Risk, Product and Engineering teams to build, improve and implement underwriting and fraud models
  • Derive insights from complex data sets to identify credit and fraud risk
  • Apply statistical and machine learning techniques on large datasets
  • Evaluate the utility of non-traditional data sources

What We're Looking For:

  • Bachelor's degree or higher in a quantitative field, e.g. Computer Science, Math, Economics, or Statistics
  • 7+ years experience in data science, machine learning, and data analysis
  • Expertise in applied probability and statistics
  • Experience building credit risk and fraud models
  • Deep understanding of machine learning techniques and algorithms
  • End-to-end deployment data-driven model deployment experience
  • Expertise in data-oriented programming (e.g. SQL) and statistical programming (e.g., Python, R). PySpark experience is a big plus

Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is one of Motive's core values. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.

Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is one of Motive's core values. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.

  • Please do not let an arrest or conviction record prevent you from applying for employment at Motive. Motive considers qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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Summary
Company name: Motive
Remote job title: Staff Data Scientist
Job tags: license fees, business services, mobility

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