Research Scientist – Financial Inclusion at Scale at M-KOPA Solar

Confidential • Kenya, Kenya • Posted June 27, 2026

About the Role

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 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 mathem...