Role Information
Role Title : Senior Data Scientist Agentic AI Platform (Mortgage Industry)Department/ Function : AILocation : Hyderabad/ RemoteReports To : DirectorExperience Level : 5+ years in applied data science, with 3+ years in financial domain AI (Added advantage)Employment Type : Full Time
About Veltris
Veltris is an AI-first digital product engineering company that approaches AI as an orchestrator for long-term industry transformation. We empower clients to Build AI-native systems, Modernize existing platforms with AI-first architectures, and Monetize their data through new, defensible revenue streams.Our core focus is Vertical AI, where we integrate deep domain expertise into industry-specific workflows to solve challenges in micro-industries across healthcare, communications, manufacturing, and finance.By embedding AI directly into our clients processes, we move beyond generic pilots to deliver measurable business value, helping them create new business models and achieve a true competitive advantage.
Role Overview
We are hiring a Senior Data Scientist to develop and deploy advanced AI/ML models powering mortgage automation agents.This role involves designing models for creditworthiness prediction, fraud detection, income verification, document intelligence, and conversational agents. The candidate will ensure models are accurate, explainable, and compliant with regulatory frameworks.
Key Responsibilities
- Build, train, and optimize ML/AI models for mortgage risk, loan eligibility, pricing, and fraud detection.
- Develop document understanding and NLP models for parsing tax returns, pay stubs, W2s, bank statements.
- Implement RAG pipelines for domain-specific knowledge retrieval.
- Ensure bias mitigation, model fairness, and explainability (XAI) for compliance with regulatory audits.
- Collaborate with AI architects to integrate models into the agent framework.
- Develop monitoring dashboards for model drift, accuracy, and performance.
- Work with mortgage SMEsto translate domain knowledge into features, embeddings, and rules.
Required Skills & Experience
- Strong experience with Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn, Hugging Face Transformers.
- NLP expertise : NER, summarization, QCA, OCR (Tesseract, Amazon Textract, Azure Form Recognizer).
- Deep understanding of statistical modeling, risk scoring, credit analytics, fraud detection.
- Experience with vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, FAISS, Milvus).
- Knowledge of MLOps tools (MLflow, Kubeflow, Weights & Biases).
- Familiarity with mortgage underwriting, risk modeling, KYC/AML checks (added).
- Strong foundation in responsible AI practices (fairness, accountability, transparency)
Preferred Qualifications (Good To Have)
- Familiarity with mortgage underwriting, risk modeling, KYC/AML checks (added).
- Mortgage Industry
Behavioral Competencies
- Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking
- Effective communication and collaboration skills
- Ownership and accountability in a fast-paced environment
- Adaptability to changing business needs
Why Join Veltris
- Opportunity to work with global clients and emerging technologies
- Learning-driven culture with access to continuous upskilling
- Collaborative, inclusive, and innovative environment
- Competitive compensation and benefit
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