Analytic Scientist-ML Engineering (Lead)

Location: San Diego, California, US
Recruiter: FICO
Date posted: Tuesday, November 18, 2025

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

In this role, you will be a member of a highly talented team of engineers and scientists enabling advanced predictive models deployed into cloud-based real-time transaction processing systems. You will be a contributor to FICO products and strategic initiatives that involve analytic innovation with a strong focus on building, testing, and deploying advanced analytics for the FICO Platform. You will have the opportunity to build industry leading solutions and stay at the forefront of modern AI and ML technologies.  Hiring Manager 

What Youll Contribute 

• Contribute to requirements and development of advanced distributed ML architectures, pipelines, and infrastructure that scale for production environments.

• Develop algorithms and tools for real-time predictive analytics on high-volume, high-throughput transactional data.

• Integrate and evaluate advanced ML technologies, platforms and frameworks.

• Balance performance and cost constraints.

• Establish strong processes, quality controls, and ethical standards for PII and IP protection, analytic development, and product delivery.

• Interact and collaborate with cross functional teams (Software Development, QA, Professional Services, IT, Product Management, Sales, and Product Support).

• Drive and influence analytic and software designs decisions to ensure successful integration of analytic models into FICO Platform.

• Mentor junior engineers and scientists.

• Travel and work outside of normal business hours as business dictates. 

What Were Seeking 

• M.S. or Ph.D. degree in computer science, engineering, physics, or a related technical field.

• 3+ years of industry experience with demonstrated success in analytics software, data engineering, or machine learning.

• Experience working with cloud-based and distributed architectures, large real-world datasets, and production software or analytics.

• Strong knowledge of computer science fundamentals, software design principles, and best practices such as agile development, unit testing, version control, and continuous integration.

• Strong competency in two or more programming languages such as C, C++, Java, and/or Python.

• Experience working with distributed computing systems, frameworks, and database technologies (SQL and NoSQL).

• Experience building predictive analytic models and conducting data analysis.

• Working knowledge of machine learning fundamentals, mathematics, statistics, and algorithms.

• Experience working in Linux environments with proficiency in Linux scripting languages.

• Strong communication, presentation, and technical leadership skills.

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: $120,000 to $189,000 with this range reflecting differences in candidate knowledge, skills and experience.

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