Job Description
M-KOPA’s mission is to make high quality energy affordable to everyone.
OUR GROWTH SO FAR… M-KOPA has connected more than , homes in Kenya,Tanzania and Uganda to solar power with over new homes being added every day.
Research Scientist – Financial Inclusion at Scale
What You’ll Do
Build generative AI models (VAEs, GANs, diffusion models) for financial inclusion across AfricaPrototype and iterate advanced models, from credit risk assessment to customer behaviour modelingPublish research at top conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI etc) while solving real-world problemsWork 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 scienceExperience with deep learning, reinforcement learning, or specialised Machine Learning domainsExperience with structured or unstructured dataProven ability to translate research into scalable algorithmsIdeally a publication record in Machine Learning research (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI etc preferred)