Updated July 25, 2026

21 open positions

Model Validation Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 21+ model validation jobs at companies offering unlimited PTO and best places to work—full pay and a better work-life balance. 4 new this week. Hiring companies include Monzo, Experian, and Affirm.

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New This Week

10+

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Updated Daily

Senior Director, Data Platform and AI

1mo

Oyster HR

RemoteWorldwide

72 · Great5 day weekGenerous PTO

Senior Data Scientist, Innovation Lab

Experian

RemoteUSA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

IRRBB Manager

2mo

Mercury

RemoteCanada or USA

62 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Model Risk Management Lead, Machine Learning

1mo

Affirm

RemoteCanada

61 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$145k – $205k

Model Risk Management Lead, Machine Learning

1mo

Affirm

RemoteUSA

61 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$164k – $245k

Financial Crime Model Validation Manager

20d

Monzo

RemoteUK

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave£71k – £90k

Credit Model Validation Manager

20d

Monzo

RemoteUK

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave£79k – £93k

BIM Modeler (Structures)

Parsons Corporation

HybridDubai, United Arab Emirates

70 · Great9 day fortnight

Ontology & Semantic Modeler, Data Context Layer

Merck

OnsiteHyderabad, India

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Machine Learning Engineer II

OnsiteCentreville or Minneapolis

61 · Good9 day fortnight

Senior Thermal Engineer

Panthalassa

OnsitePortland, USA

54 · Decent5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Data Scientist

Experian

HybridSofia, Bulgaria

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Staff Engineer (ML Engineer)

Graphcore

HybridLondon, UK

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Data Scientist, Pricing

1mo

Opendoor

HybridSeattle, USA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Model Risk Management

1mo

Block

HybridNew York, USA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Data Scientist

19d

Enova International

HybridChicago, USA

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$96k – $125k

Operations Research Analyst, Mission Engineering

1mo

CHAOS Industries

OnsiteEl Segundo, USA

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Sales Operations Analyst

1mo

MongoDB

HybridCork or Dublin

57 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Data Scientist III

1mo

Experian

OnsiteSão Paulo, Brazil

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Financial Risk Manager

20d

Monzo

HybridDublin, Ireland

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave€92k – €112k

AI Governance Specialist

20d

St. James's Place

HybridCirencester or London

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

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Everything you need to know about 4-day week jobs

Employers hiring for Model Validation on this page include Monzo, Experian, and Affirm. Model Validation roles appear most frequently in engineering, data, and platform teams at companies that have adopted a reduced-hours schedule. Each listing indicates the seniority level and whether Model Validation is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Model Validation roles span the full seniority range — we list 22 open roles requiring Model Validation across entry-level, mid-level, senior, lead, and staff/principal positions. Senior and above tend to dominate because employers offering reduced-hours schedules often lean toward experienced individual contributors who can deliver consistently in fewer hours. Filter by level in the sidebar to narrow the list above.

Lead with measurable outcomes over time spent — Model Validation hiring managers at reduced-hours companies care about delivered value, not hours worked. Highlight projects where you shipped at a steady cadence, collaborated asynchronously, or reduced engineering toil through automation or tooling. Include concrete metrics (latency improvements, adoption numbers, cost reductions) rather than vague duty descriptions. Expand listings above to see the exact framing each employer uses in their job descriptions.

For the full-pay schedules here — 4-day weeks and 9-day fortnights — yes: you keep a full-time salary for a shorter week. Part-time and pro-rata roles instead scale pay to hours, and each listing makes the arrangement clear. Model Validation roles in tech and data typically command premium rates at both reduced-hours and traditional employers; specific ranges depend on seniority, location, and sub-specialty (e.g. backend vs frontend, infra vs ML). Individual listings above show exact bands where the employer publishes them.

Depends on the role, but Model Validation candidates who also demonstrate async communication, clean documentation, and cross-functional collaboration are typically strong fits for reduced-hours employers — those companies rely on written-first communication and high-context handoffs to operate on a compressed schedule. Technical-adjacent skills vary by stack. Browse the top skills shown in the sidebar to see which tags co-occur most often with Model Validation on current listings.