Data Scientist

Did you know that about 10% of all insurance payouts are flowing directly into the pockets of fraudsters? The future of insurance starts with Decisions Made Better.

Shift Technology harnesses the power of AI to enable the world's leading insurance organizations to make better decisions. Our products automate and optimize decisions from underwriting to claims, resulting in increased operational efficiency, reduced costs, and superior customer experiences for millions of people around the globe.

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 40 different countries and cultures and together we are creating the future of insurance.

**About the Team**
- Our Data Science team is the largest team in our organization consisting of over 140+ Data Scientists throughout the world.
- Our company is small enough that each person's achievements has an impact on our overall performance, yet big enough to be a world leader and innovator in our domain.
- As a member of the data science team, you will be working alongside our technical experts and your role will be key to rolling out our enterprise level solutions to our clients.

**Responsibilities**:

- You will actively participate in the development of our suite of products: fraud detection, anti-money laundering, and claim automation; and working on various data types such as structured data, free text, documents and images.
- **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 for direct user feedback, presenting business cases or defining the roadmap of evolutions

**WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR**
- **Code-savvy**, either by having a degree in computer science and/or having developed some apps with actual users
- 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.
- **AI-savvy**, either by having a degree in machine learning and/or statistics. Having a clear understanding of statistics and machine learning problems, tasks and common resolutions is important to communicate internally and explain to the client how the product is working.
- **Client facing**. You will need to be comfortable and open to communicating to our clients on a regular basis
- Proven and in-depth understanding if the **Japanese business world**:

- **Business fluent Japanese**:

- **Fluent in English. **We are an international company with offices in many countries and 40+ nationalities, the Shift working language is English.

**RECRUITMENT PROCESS**
- Talent Acquisition interview
- Technical exercise
- Technical interview
- Hiring manager interview

**To support our employees at every stage of their careers and lives, we are always assessing the benefits we offer to ensure we are competitive. Here are some 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
- Generous PTO and paid holidays
- Parental leave opportunities
- Extensive mental health benefits provided via our global Employee Assistance Program
- Paid volunteering time - 16 hours annually

We offer many benefits in various countries - ask your recruiter for more information.
- At Shift we strive to be a diverse and inclusive workforce. We hire and trust people without regard to race, color, religion, marital status, age, national or ethnic origin, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other non-merit criteria._
- 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._