Staff Data Scientist

About this role

This is a fully remote opportunity with hybrid available to those local to Boston.

Gradient AI:

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. Our platform harnesses a vast industry data lake – tens of millions of policies and claims enriched with economic, health, geographic, and demographic signals – integrating cleanly with existing workflows to make complex risk clear, usable, and actionable. Our customers include carriers, brokers, consultants, and specialized insurance organizations across the industry. We are backed by $56M in Series C funding and scaling fast – and it's an exciting time to join the team!

About the Role:

We are looking for a Staff Data Scientist to lead complex modelling and analytical projects of broad and diverse scope. You will drive cross-product initiatives with minimal direction, setting the technical approach where problems are ambiguous and raising the bar for the entire data science team.

How you will make an impact:

• Leverage the best of modern deep learning & large language models with traditional data science techniques to create powerful hybrid models with real uplift.

• Brainstorm, prototype, prove, deploy, and realize the value of your work in market quickly.

• 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.

• Tell stories with your data. Inspire trust in customers, stakeholders, and prospects by…