Director Data Science

Overview

Founded in 1988, Trimont (www.trimont.com) is a specialized global commercial real estate loan services provider and partner for lenders and investors seeking the infrastructure and capabilities needed to help them scale their business and make informed, effective decisions related to the deployment, management and administration of commercial real estate secured credit. As the largest master servicer of commercial real estate loans in the United States, Trimont manages securitizations with meticulous oversight and coordination—protecting cash flows, mitigating risk, and ensuring portfolio performance.

We do this with a team of 1100+ extraordinary team members who serve a global client base from offices in Atlanta (headquarters), Bengaluru, Charlotte, Dallas, Hyderabad, Kansas City, London, New York and Sydney. We empower our people with advanced technology, industry-leading knowledge, and a culture centered on our core values. This approach enables our teams to deliver exceptional client service, build lasting relationships and take pride in the high-quality work they perform.

Trimont is an innovative firm where visionary professionals come to learn, grow, and thrive with colleagues driven by curiosity and collaboration.

Learn: We believe ongoing learning is critical and are focused on providing a work environment where all team members can take ownership of their careers.

Grow: We work alongside the largest institutional lenders in the world, overseeing the most significant projects in the industry. This unique opportunity allows us to broaden our skillset and develop our abilities by tackling some of the industry’s most challenging and exciting endeavors.

Thrive: Our firm is a place where ethics and excellence meet to create an experience that matches our capabilities. There are no limits to what we as team members and as an organization, can achieve together.

Where people, purpose, and progress come together every day.

TriVinna, a Trimont company, is redefining the future of commercial loan servicing through advanced technology and data-driven innovation. As the newest addition to the Trimont group, TriVinna introduces a modern loan servicing software platform that streamlines operations, increases transparency, and provides clients and partners with actionable insights. Leveraging Trimont’s access to approximately 11% of all U.S. commercial real estate lending data, TriVinna integrates market-leading analytics, robust portfolio management tools, and a high-touch customer support model. This comprehensive approach enables clients to make informed decisions, manage risk effectively, and achieve greater efficiency and performance in commercial real estate loan servicing.

Job Summary

We're seeking talented Data Scientist to build AI-powered capabilities that transform commercial real estate loan servicing. You'll work on cutting-edge problems spanning document intelligence, agentic AI systems, and predictive analytics that directly impact how billions of dollars in commercial loans are managed. This is an opportunity to deploy production ML systems at scale while working with rich, proprietary datasets in the fintech space.

Core Responsibilities

Model Development

• Design, train, and evaluate machine learning models for production use
• Conduct experiments and A/B tests to validate model improvements
• Implement model interpretability and explainability techniques
• Stay current with latest research and apply state-of-the-art methods

Production ML

• Collaborate with Engineering and infrastructure to deploy models to production
• Build data pipelines and feature engineering workflows
• Monitor model performance and implement retraining strategies
• Create APIs and interfaces for model predictions
• Optimize models for latency, throughput and cost

Data Analysis and Insights

• Perform exploratory data analysis
• Identify patterns and anomalies in commercial real estate data
• Communicate findings to product and business stakeholders
• Develop metrics and dashboards to track model performance
• Validate data quality and implement data validation

Document Intelligence and NLP

• Build document extraction and classification models for loan documents
• Develop NLP pipelines for processing unstructured financial text
• Implement OCR and document parsing solutions for automated data extraction

Agentic AI and LLM Systems

• Design and implement LLM-powered applications and agentic workflows
• Develop RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) systems for document Q&A
• Implement prompt engineering strategies and LLM evaluation frameworks
• Build guardrails and safety mechanisms for AI-generated outputs

Collaboration and Support

• Partner with Product teams to translate business requirements into ML solutions
• Work with Data Engineers on data pipeline and feature store requirements
• Collaborate with Domain Experts to validate model outputs against business logic
• Document model architectures, experiments, and decision rationale
• Mentor junior data scientists and share best practices

Required Qualifications

• 10 + years of experience in data science or machine learning
• Expert proficiency in Python and ML libraries (scikit-learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow)
• Experience deploying ML models to production environments
• Strong foundation in statistics, probability, and experimental design
• Experience with NLP and document processing techniques
• Proficiency with SQL and data manipulation at scale
• Experience with cloud ML platforms (AWS SageMaker, Azure ML, or GCP Vertex AI)
• PhD degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or related field (or equivalent experience)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in financial services, fintech, or SaaS environments
• Experience with LLMs, RAG systems, and agentic AI frameworks
• Master’s or PhD in a quantitative field
• Experience with MLOps tools (MLflow, Kubeflow, Weights & Biases)
• Knowledge of computer vision or OCR for document processing
• Familiarity with compliance requirements in financial services

Trimont is an equal opportunity employer, and we’re proud to support and celebrate diversity in the workplace. If you have a disability and need an accommodation or assistance with the application process and/or using our website, please contact us. We are proud to maintain a drug-free policy, ensuring that our community is a secure and productive space for all our team members.