Senior Data Scientist

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>Who We Are:</strong></p> <p>Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. Our <a href="https://alpaca.markets/blog/alpaca-raises-150-million-at-a-1-15b-valuation-to-build-the-global-standard-for-brokerage-infrastructure/">recent Series D funding round</a> brought our total investment to over $320 million, fueling our ambitious vision.</p> <p>Amongst our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company, serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with our institutional-grade APIs. This includes broker-dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, totalling over 9 million brokerage accounts.</p> <p>Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to achieve our mission of <strong>opening financial services to everyone on the planet</strong>. We're deeply committed to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community, continuously enhancing our award-winning, developer-friendly API and the robust infrastructure behind it.</p> <p>Alpaca is proudly backed by top-tier global investors, including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Unbound, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Elefund, and Y Combinator.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Our Team Members:</strong></p> <p>We're a dynamic team of 230+ globally distributed members who thrive working from our favorite places around the world, with teammates spanning the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and beyond!<br><br>We're searching for passionate individuals eager to contribute to Alpaca's rapid growth. If you align with our core values—Stay Curious, Have Empathy, and Be Accountable—and are ready to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply.</p></div><p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Your Role</strong><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;">:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Alpaca is seeking an experienced Senior Data Scientist to join our remote,</span></span> distributed team. This role is pivotal in driving insights and innovation from our rich data ecosystem, including financial transactions, customer data, API usage patterns, and third-party sources.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">You will be responsible for applying deep predictive and descriptive analytics to unlock strategic value and will be a key player in developing our next generation of agentic AI applications.</span></p> <h3><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>What You'll Do</strong></span></h3> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Lead Advanced Analysis:</strong> Design and execute deep predictive and descriptive analyses across our core business domains, including <strong>finance, marketing, and product metrics</strong>, to identify key trends, optimization opportunities, and strategic insights.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Develop Agentic AI:</strong> Spearhead the research, proof-of-concept (PoC), and full-lifecycle development of data-intensive applications, with a specific focus on <strong>building and deploying agentic AI systems</strong>.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Drive Model Lifecycle:</strong> Own the end-to-end development of data science solutions, from initial research and data handling (high-volume transactions, metrics) through to deployment, optimization, and maintenance.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Cross-Functional Collaboration:</strong> Work closely with stakeholders in sales, marketing, product, and operations to understand complex business needs and translate them into actionable, ... (truncated, view full listing at source)