Own credit risk models end-to-end at a fintech scaling $200B+ in annualized spend

Ramp is hiring a Senior Applied Scientist to build the ML models behind its credit risk decisioning and portfolio management. You'll own the full lifecycle from data exploration to production monitoring, working at the intersection of ML, causal inference, and economics. This interview probes both modeling depth and the judgment to ship reliable models that move real risk decisions.

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What this interview tests

Credit risk model design and portfolio decisioning
Full applied science lifecycle: data exploration to deployment to monitoring
Causal inference, statistics, and optimization fundamentals
Backtesting and validation framework design
Translating ambiguous business problems into scoped modeling work
Communicating technical results to product/risk/business stakeholders

Common question themes

Design a credit risk scoring model from scratch — what data, features, and validation approach

How would you evaluate a new (possibly unstructured) data source for inclusion in a credit model

Describe a time you shipped an ML model to production and it degraded — how did you detect and fix it

Explain a causal inference technique you've used to isolate a real business effect

How do you balance model complexity against interpretability for a risk decision that affects customers

Tell me about translating an ambiguous ask from a business partner into a modeling roadmap

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