Staff Data Scientist
at Gradient AI · 101-250 employees
Equity · Mar 2026
- Seniority
- Staff Principal
- Work model
- Remote
- Location
- Remote
- Posted
- 5d ago
pythondockerci/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 SCXW42054253 BCX0" lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW42054253 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 SCXW42054253 BCX0"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW42054253 BCX0">Our platform harnesses a vast industry data lake </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW42054253 BCX0">– </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW42054253 BCX0">tens of millions of policies and claims enriched with economic, health, geographic, and demographic signals </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW42054253 BCX0">–</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW42054253 BCX0"> integrating cleanly with existing workflows to make complex risk clear, usable, and actionable.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW42054253 BCX0"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW42054253 BCX0">Our customers include carriers, brokers, consultants, and specialized insurance organizations across the industry</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW42054253 BCX0">.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW42054253 BCX0"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW42054253 BCX0">We are b</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW42054253 BCX0">acked by $56M in Series C funding </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW42054253 BCX0">and</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW42054253 BCX0"> scaling fast</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW42054253 BCX0"> – </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW42054253 BCX0">and </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW42054253 BCX0">it's</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW42054253 BCX0"> an exciting time to join the team</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW42054253 BCX0">!</span></span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW42054253 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 SCXW15477758 BCX0" lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW15477758 BCX0">We are looking for a Staff Data Scientist to lead complex modelling and analytical </span><span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW15477758 BCX0">projects of</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW15477758 BCX0"> broad and diverse scope. You will drive cross-product initiatives with minimal direction, </span><span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW15477758 BCX0">setting</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW15477758 BCX0"> the technical approach where problems are ambiguous and raising the bar for the entire data science team.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW15477758 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