Job Description

FICO (NYSE: FICO) is a leading global analytics software company, helping businesses in 100+ countries make better decisions. Join our world-class team today and fulfill your career potential!

The Opportunity 

“ As a Senior Software Engineer - Senior Python developer you will help build leading data science tools for advanced analytic for our Analytics Workbench product. You will solve tough analytic problems in real-world applications, using machine learning and explainable artificial intelligence (xAI), and share those solutions with our customers around the globe. Working side-by-side with some of the brightest analytical and engineering minds in our industry, who share your passion for innovation and excellence, you will tremendously grow your own skills and influence.” - Sr Director, Technical Architecture 

What You’ll Contribute

Plan, design, implement, and test Python API’s, algorithms, and examples for use by data scientists to address all portions of the predictive modeling lifecycle. 

Work side-by-side with data scientists, QA engineers and UX designers to create robust, efficient, and flexible pipelines to transform data, train machine learning models, and test and monitor operationalized models. 

Find, augment and design data sets to exercise, quality test, stress test and demonstrate novel data science algorithms.

Engage with internal users, clients, and pre-sales engineers to design and create useful solutions, proofs of value, demonstrations, and educational materials. 

What We’re Seeking 

Bachelor’s Degree or higher in computer science, engineering, physics, statistics, mathematics, operations research, or natural science fields. 

7+ years hands-on related experience in predictive modeling and data science using Python. 

Experience designing and developing reusable Python API packages to be consumed by other teams working on data science projects. 

Experience using Object-Oriented development techniques. 

Experience in software development methodologies including software architecture, design, problem solving, performance tuning, test-driven development, and debugging skills. 

Experience with the full software development lifecycle. 

Experience with scripting languages such as Bash, Perl, or similar. 

Proven ability to provide technical leadership and mentoring to cross-functional teams on medium- to large-scale projects and handling client interactions, requiring strong communication skills. 

Experience with any of the following preferred: logistic regression, decision trees, non-linear regression, neural networks, random forests, gradient boosted trees, support vector machines, linear/non-linear optimization. 

Experience with libraries like matplotlib, numpy, xgboost and the like is a plus. 

Our Offer to You

An inclusive culture strongly reflecting our core values:  Act Like an Owner, Delight Our Customers and Earn the Respect of Others.

The opportunity to make an impact and develop professionally by leveraging your unique strengths and participating in valuable learning experiences.

Highly competitive compensation, benefits and rewards programs that encourage you to bring your best every day and be recognized for doing so.

An engaging, people-first work environment offering work/life balance, employee resource groups, and social events to promote interaction and camaraderie.

The targeted base pay range for this role is: $123,000 to $193,000 with this range reflecting differences in candidate knowledge, skills and experience.
 

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