Vacancy title:
Research Scientist - Financial Inclusion at Scale

[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Financial Services, Category: Science & Engineering]

Jobs at:
M-KOPA Solar

Deadline of this Job:
Friday, July 4 2025

Duty Station:
Kenya | Nairobi | Kenya

Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, June 24 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

What You'll Do

• Build generative AI models (VAEs, GANs, diffusion models) for financial inclusion across Africa
• Prototype and iterate advanced models, from credit risk assessment to customer behaviour modeling
• Publish research at top conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI etc) while solving real-world problems
• Work with teams across Africa and Europe to deploy Machine Learning solutions that expand financial access

What You Need

• Hands-on experience or Academic Publication in generative models (VAEs, GANs, diffusion models, or related methods)
• Advanced expertise in mathematics, statistics, and theoretical computer science
• Experience with deep learning, reinforcement learning, or specialised Machine Learning domains
• Experience with structured or unstructured data
• Proven ability to translate research into scalable algorithms
• Ideally a publication record in Machine Learning research (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI etc preferred)

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 12

Level of Education: bachelor degree

Job application procedure

Interested and qualified? Go to M-KOPA Solar on jobs.ashbyhq.com to apply

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