Staff Data Scientist – IntelliScript

Role Overview

• Work in conjunction with our business development and product teams to develop and implement commercially viable model-based solutions to the healthcare, insurance, life sciences and adjacent markets.
• Provide organizational data science subject matter expertise and thought leadership.
• Plays an active role within the team to advise and influence senior management on the data science vision and strategy.
• Drives innovation, advises on strategic plans, influences high-level stakeholders, and delivers strategic results for the organization.
• Research, develop, deploy, and maintain traditional AI/ML models following industry best practices.
• Work extensively with available GenAI models; construct exciting solutions to internal and external use cases across markets and enhance our internal capabilities through centralized internal tooling and thought leadership.
• Coordinate with Product, Business Development, ML Engineering, and IT to bring new and exciting data science products to market, as well as support existing industry leading products.
• Help drive best practices and continuous improvement on the data science team; influencing model design and experimentation strategy through planning, audit, peer review, and other coaching.

Requirements

• 15+ years of professional experience using AI/ML to create high return on investment commercial data science solutions
• Expert data scientist with demonstrable capability across the full ML lifecycle, from problem framing and feature engineering to model development, validation, and deployment
• Supervised Learning: Classification and regression using tree-based models, ensemble methods, and gradient boosting frameworks
• Unsupervised Learning: Clustering, dimensionality reduction, and anomaly detection
• Model Validation: Cross-validation, hyperparameter optimization, and experimental design including A/B testing
• Deep Learning: Modern neural network architectures including transformers and transfer learning
• NLP: End-to-end NLP pipelines spanning text processing, representation learning, and language understanding
• Expert understanding of Generative AI; able to effectively use, fine-tune, and evaluate commercially available models as well as deploy and integrate local LLMs into the data science process
• Expert level Python programmer, with some experience in R and/or SQL
• Expert user of Databricks or similar cloud-based model development ecosystem including mlflow, experimentation organization, data catalogs, and compute cluster configuration
• Sufficient understanding of software engineering best practices such as Git for version control, unit testing, local development, and environment management
• Knowledge of ML Engineering and ML Ops related concepts and tools including CICD pipelines, GitHub Actions, Docker, AWS Lambda, and Linux
• Degree in a relevant field (computer science, data science, statistics, mathematics, applied math, actuarial science, economics, etc.)

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Cloud
• Docker
• Linux
• Python
• SQL

Benefits

• Medical, Dental and Vision – Coverage for employees, dependents, and domestic partners.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) – Confidential support for personal and work-related challenges.
• 401(k) Plan – Includes a company matching program and profit-sharing contributions.
• Discretionary Bonus Program – Recognizing employee contributions.
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) – Pre-tax savings for dependent care, transportation, and eligible medical expenses.
• Paid Time Off (PTO) – Begins accruing on the first day of work. Full-time employees accrue 15 days per year, and employees working less than full-time accrue PTO on a prorated basis.
• Holidays – A minimum of 10 paid holidays per year.
• Family Building Benefits – Includes adoption and fertility assistance.
• Paid Parental Leave – Up to 12 weeks of paid leave for employees who meet eligibility criteria.
• Life Insurance & AD&D – 100% of premiums covered by Milliman.
• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability – Fully paid by Milliman.