Mid-Level Data Scientist / Quant - Risk & Trading
Mid-Level Data Scientist / Quant - Risk & Trading
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Job Description
About Sleeper
Sleeper is one of the fastestgrowing sports platforms in the US. We build freetoplay fantasy titles and realmoney Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) games across the NFL NBA/WNBA MLB NHL EU football and more. Our Risk & Trading team safeguards game integrity and optimizes profitability through datadriven pricing and exposure management.
What Youll Be Doing
Feature engineering & model tuning Own the pipelines that transform raw bet player and market data into features for our pricing and exposure models (BigQuery SQLX Python Pandas).
Predictive modeling Train validate and deploy supervised and probabilistic models that forecast player performance market volatility and user value.
Guardrail automation Ship rulebased limiters and anomalydetection jobs that run every few seconds flagging and throttling outlier exposure before it becomes tail risk.
Dashboards & alerting Build Grafana dashboards and SQLX reports that surface live liability promo uptake and topline KPIs to trading and exec stakeholders.
Light oncall rotation During peak sports windows respond to automated alerts and if necessary execute a manual override (price suspension / limit change). < 2 hrs/wk on average.
Crossfunctional collaboration Pair with Backend & Data Engineers to productionize models and with Product to iterate on game mechanics and promos.
Who You Are
35 years in data science machine learning or quant research; comfortable owning endtoend projects.
Fluent in Python SQL and modern ML tooling (scikitlearn XGBoost Airflow or similar).
Familiar with sports data and the economics of fantasy / sportsbook markets; plus if youve built pricing or risk models.
Systems thinker who anticipates failure modes and edge cases in realtime environments.
Willing to flex hours around major game slates; were a remotefirst team and optimize schedules for coverage & worklife balance.
NicetoHaves
Experience with BigQuery Looker dbt or similar analytics stacks.
Exposure to realtime streams (Kafka Pub/Sub) and eventdriven architectures.
Prior work building userlevel segmentation or LTV models.
Compensation
In the United States the reasonable base salary range for this role is $90 000 $175 000 USD plus equity and benefits (medical dental vision PTO 401k). Final offers consider experience skills and market data.
Benefits
Competitive salary and stock options
Comprehensive health dental and vision insurance
401(k)
Flexible working hours and remote-first culture
Clear paths for career growth and leadership
What we offer
Sleeper believes in quality over quantity and intentionally keeps our team small as a result. In past roles we found it very hard to make a big impact when companies grow too large in size which has a detrimental effect on the product and the impact any single individual can have. Our team includes designers engineers product experts and finance & operation focused on one thing connecting people over sports. We believe in fair and equitable pay. Certain locations in the United States require job postings to include a reasonable estimate of the base salary range and/or a general description of benefits and other compensation applicable to the role.
Competitive salary plus benefits including Medical Dental PTO 401k. Please note that The salary range for this role takes into account a wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The policy of Sleeper is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race color creed religion sex sexual orientation gender identity marital status citizenship status age national origin ancestry disability veteran status or any other legally protected status and to affirmatively seek to advance the principles of equal employment opportunity. Sleeper is committed to being an Equal Opportunity Employer and offers opportunities to all job seekers including job seekers with disabilities. If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran you may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access the Companys career webpage as a result of your disability. You may request reasonable accommodations by sending an email to
Headquartered in Las Vegas NV Sleeper is backed by Silicon Valleys top investors including Andreessen Horowitz General Catalyst and Expa.
To learn more visit us online at:
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full-Time
