Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Symetra is a national financial services company dedicated to helping people achieve their financial goals. As a Lead Data Scientist, you will own the AI and machine learning behind our products, mentor other data scientists, and partner closely with engineers to build AI-powered applications.
Responsibilities
- Frame business and product questions, and define how we'll measure success
- Build and evaluate models that power our AI products, from classic ML to LLM-based systems (RAG, agents)
- Own projects end to end, and recommend where to focus next
- Set the standard for evaluations, guardrails, and prompting across our LLM systems, and champion data science best practices
- Mentor data scientists and partner closely with the engineers building our products
Skills
- An experienced data scientist (typically 8+ years) who has owned modeling work end to end
- Deep expertise in statistics, machine learning, and model development
- Strong with modern AI: LLMs, RAG, agents, prompt engineering, evaluation, and guardrails
- Python and SQL, and a track record of getting models into production
- Use AI coding agents effectively in your day-to-day work, with the judgment to know when to use them and when not to
- Building and scaling LLM-powered systems in production
- Document understanding, NLP, or other unstructured-data experience
- A track record of mentoring data scientists and leading technical direction
Benefits
- Flexible full-time or hybrid telecommuting arrangements
- Plan for your future with our 401(k) plan and take advantage of immediate vesting and company matching up to 6%
- Paid time away including vacation and sick time, flex days and ten paid holidays
- Give back to your community and double your impact through our company matching
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