Data Scientist (Python, ML, SQL) in Maharashtra, India

Data Scientist

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Data Scientist
RightProfile Mumbai (Hybrid) Full-time 23 yrs

Syntellect is building the intelligence layer for lending in markets where bureau data stops. RightProfile our field AI platform is live across India and East Africa, and expanding into new geographies fast. We need a Senior Data Scientist who operates in two modes simultaneously: driving continuous innovation across our existing suite of AI capabilities, and going out into the field literally sitting with lenders, loan officers, and borrowers to surface the insights that become our next generation of products.

Drive innovation across our existing AI modules image intelligence, voice-to-structured-data, document pre-underwriting, and multi-signal triangulation identifying accuracy gaps, introducing new model architectures, and pushing performance benchmarks
Conduct on-ground customer immersions: accompany field officers, observe loan origination in real conditions, and convert unstructured field knowledge into hypotheses for new product capabilities
Refine and expand our surrogate income and creditworthiness classification logic across trade segments and geographies, calibrating models to loan officer ground truth rather than bureau proxies
Act as the primary data science liaison with active clients lead performance reviews, explain model behaviour to credit heads and CXOs, and translate field feedback into a clear improvement roadmap
Monitor live deployments across geographies; detect model drift early and ship fixes fast this is an environment where days matter, not sprints
Build evaluation frameworks precision/recall, NPA lift, Gini, KS and convert them into ROI narratives that resonate with credit risk and product leaders
Contribute to research and outcome measurement deliverables for development finance and grant partners, with rigorous, audit-ready data outputs

3+ years in applied ML/data science with shipped, production models not just research

• Deep expertise in at least one of: computer vision, NLP/ASR, or document intelligence
• Proven ability to present complex model outputs to non-technical audiences credit committees, CXOs, regulators
• Strong Python and

  SQL

  ; fluency with cloud-based data pipelines and experiment tracking
• Experience with low-resource or multilingual models

Prior experience in an early-stage startup you built from scratch, not inherited
Awareness of AI regulatory and data privacy norms in financial services

You will work directly with the Founder-CEO who brings nearly three decades of lending experience and the CTO. This role involves both screen time and field time, sometimes in the same week. If you want a clearly scoped data science function inside a large org, this is the wrong role. Python
SQL
FastAPI

AWS / GCP

Excel (for clients)

We particularly welcome candidates with lived or professional experience in the markets we serve.. The role is hybrid, based in Mumbai, with periodic travel to client and field sites.
have minimum 3 years of experience
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