Washington Mutual, the largest holder of residential mortgages (with the exception of Freddie Mac/Fannie Mae) is seeking several quantitative methods professionals to join its new mortgage and prepayment scoring department based in Irvine, CA. This is a ground level opportunity for recent graduate statisticians, economists and operations research specialists with PhD, or Masters degrees. The individuals will be responsible for developing and deploying scoring models that facilitate the fast, affordable and accurate evaluation of residential mortgage loans. This will include developing credit risk scoring, prepayment risk scoring and/or pricing models to be used by the Mortgage Banking Division in the evaluation and pricing of activities. Must have the ability to apply advanced statistical, mathematical and econometric techniques for model construction. Familiarity with credit scoring, credit bureau date, secondary mortgage market valuation methodology, macroeconomics time series analysis, database marketing techniques, options-based pricing models, database software and statistical software is helpful. Keys to success will include excellent problem solving skills, knowledge and understanding of date issues to ensure successful analyses and an understanding of very large data sets with the ability to manipulate them. Washington Mutual offers an exciting and professional work environment with comprehensive benefits. Qualified candidates may obtain an application packet from any Washington Mutual location. Please send completed application packet to: Washington Mutual Bank Attn: Theresa Ho 3600 Bristol St. 2nd Fl. Santa Ana, CA 92704 Fax: (714) 556-8162 Resumes can be emailed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =================================================================