Data Scientist

The future of insurance starts with AI. To date, Shift Technology's AI-powered products have benefitted more than 300 million policyholders globally by reducing underwriting risk, identifying more fraud, and automating critical tasks throughout the claims process. Shift harnesses the power of AI to enable the world's leading insurance organizations to make better decisions. Our products help insurers improve operational efficiency, reduce costs, and deliver superior customer experiences to their policyholders. Our culture is built on innovation, trust, and a drive to transform the insurance industry by imagining and innovating solutions that impact insurers and their customers - like you We come from more than 50 different countries and cultures and together we are creating the future of insurance.
- Our company is small enough that each person's achievements have an impact on overall performance, yet big enough to be a world leader in our domain.
- We are a fast growing company, the best contributors will grow to managerial or product tech lead positions much more rapidly than in bigger companies

**What you'll do...**

The data science team is in charge of technically delivering the Shift products to clients, the key role in the success of our projects with clients. It is a hands-on job, expect to be doing everything you can imagine from the technical side in an AI company:

- **Implementation of the data engineering**, usually from client extracts to the insertion of the data in our data stores (SQL, ElasticSearch)
- **Developing, testing, tuning models and putting them in production** for tasks such as fraud detection and automation detection in complex environments.
- **Automate key business tasks **by implementing them in our production process framework in C#
- **Conduct meetings with clients** and interact with external stakeholders, whether it is direct user feedback, presenting business cases or defining the roadmap of evolutions for that client

You will actively participate in the definition and development of our suite of products on fraud detection, anti-money laundering and claim automation, working on various data types such as structured data, free text, documents and images.

**What You Bring...**

As a result of the range of the role, we are looking for people with diverse skills and proficiencies to help make our customers successful. We are open to people not having exactly all of the required skills, but in each one of those they must be willing to build expertise.

As a result, you are:

- Looking to move into the **next stage of your data science career**, bringing 3-4 years relevant experience.
- **Code-savvy**, either by having a degree in computer science and/or having developed some apps with actual users, or by willing to spend a lot of time practicing. Writing scripts for models and notebooks is not enough at Shift, we thrive on people who can write maintainable, production-quality code that will run everyday without breaking.
- **English speakers**. We are an international company with offices in many countries and 50+ nationalities, the Shift working language is English.

**Recruitment Process**
- Coding exercise
- Talent Acquisition interview
- Technical interview
- Hiring Manager interview

**To support our permanent, full time employees at every stage of their careers and lives, we provide a competitive total rewards and benefits package. Here are the global benefits we'd like to highlight**:

- Flexible remote and hybrid working options
- Competitive Salary and a variable component tied to personal and company performance
- Company equity
- Focus Fridays, a half-day each month to focus on learning and personal growth
- Generous PTO and paid holidays
- Mental health benefits
- 2 MAD Days per year (Make A Difference Days for paid volunteering)

Additional benefits may be offered by country - ask your recruiter for more information. Intern and Apprentice position are eligible for some of these benefits - ask your recruiter for more details.
- Shift Technology does not accept unsolicited CVs from recruiters or employment agencies in response to the Shift Technology Careers page or a Shift Technology social media post. Any unsolicited CVs, including those submitted directly to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Shift Technology._