Senior Data Scientist
at Gradient AI · 101-250 employees
Equity · Mar 2026
- Seniority
- Senior
- Work model
- Remote
- Location
- Remote
- Posted
- 5d ago
pythonawsazuredockerdatabrickstensorflowpytorchci/cd
at Gradient AI · 101-250 employees
Gradient AI provides artificial-intelligence-powered SaaS solutions that help insurance companies predict underwriting and claims risk, improve loss ratios, and automate workflows.
<p><strong><em><span data-contrast="auto">This is a fully remote opportunity with hybrid available to those local to Boston.</span></em></strong></p> <p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Gradient AI: </span></strong><span data-contrast="auto"> </span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> <p><span class="TextRun SCXW193826519 BCX0" lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW193826519 BCX0">Gradient AI is the decision-intelligence partner for the insurance industry, giving customers an advantage in how they make decisions by revealing risk others miss and translating it into stronger performance and real-world impact.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW193826519 BCX0"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW193826519 BCX0">Our platform harnesses a vast industry data lake </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW193826519 BCX0">– </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW193826519 BCX0">tens of millions of policies and claims enriched with economic, health, geographic, and demographic signals </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW193826519 BCX0">–</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW193826519 BCX0"> integrating cleanly with existing workflows to make complex risk clear, usable, and actionable.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW193826519 BCX0"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW193826519 BCX0">Our customers include carriers, brokers, consultants, and specialized insurance organizations across the industry.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW193826519 BCX0"> We are b</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW193826519 BCX0">acked by $56M in Series C funding </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW193826519 BCX0">and</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW193826519 BCX0"> scaling fast</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW193826519 BCX0"> – </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW193826519 BCX0">and </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW193826519 BCX0">it's</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW193826519 BCX0"> an exciting time to join the team</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW193826519 BCX0">!</span></span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW193826519 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> <p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">About the Role: </span></strong><span data-contrast="auto"> </span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> <p><span class="TextRun SCXW113621409 BCX0" lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW113621409 BCX0">We are looking for a Senior Data Scientist to advance our core AI models and drive them to market in collaboration with data science, product, and engineering partners. In this role, you will own well-scoped models end-to-end</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW113621409 BCX0"> – </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW113621409 BCX0">working independently to ship measurable uplift on the AI capabilities at the heart of our products.</span></span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW113621409 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> <p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">How you will make an impact:</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> <ul> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Leverage the best of modern deep learning & large language models with traditional data science techniques to create powerful hybrid models with real uplift.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Brainstorm, prototype, prove, deploy, and realize the value of your work in market quickly.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Everything you would expect on a world-class data science team solving world-class problems. Big data. Federated learning. Unstructured data challenges. Timeseries and sequence modelling. A self-serve buffet of techniques from GLMs to XGBoost to Transformers.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Tell stories with your data. Inspire trust in customers, stakeholders, and prospects by turning murky math into a powerful message that drives the bottom line.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li> </ul> <p><span data-contrast="auto"><strong>Who you are and why we want to work with you:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li><span data-contrast="auto">You like getting things over the line. You have an insatiable desire to deliver value now and improve next. MVP perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">You are not a software engineer, but you give them a run for their money. You prefer Python to R and don’t understand why there is still a debate. Jupyter is a necessary evil, and you’ve never met a command line that scared you away.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">You still do a better job than Claude, and you’re skeptical of your friends who say they never code any more.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">You love to take initiative and spearhead new projects, even if they are not well defined.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">You build systems bigger than you. You contribute to open source, build packages your peers want to use, or design frameworks to elevate your team. Reuse is a strategy, not a buzzword.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li> </ul> <p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Skills needed to succeed: </span></strong><span