ICW Group · 8 hours ago
Data Scientist
San Diego, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$122K/yr - $218K/yr
4+ years expICW Group is a well-established insurance company headquartered in San Diego, committed to transforming the insurance carrier space through innovative technology. The Data Scientist will build high-performing machine learning models, collaborate with various business units, and drive data-driven initiatives to enhance revenue growth and customer experience.
Financial ServicesInsurance
No H1B
Responsibilities
Build and deploy high performing AI/ML solutions
Utilize LLM models to improve organization efficiency, and tune models as needed
Perform prompt engineering
Develop innovative AI and ML solutions and implement scalable feature engineering
Create POC, MVP, as well as full-featured applications
Research and recommend emerging AI and ML approaches and present research results to stakeholders
Partner effectively with data engineering and MLOps teams to ensure internal and external data pipelines support sophisticated data models and proper monitoring and alerting is in place
Collaborate with machine learning engineers as they harden models and move them from the lab into production
Identify and measure levers that impact essential metrics; communicate steps to business stakeholders
Keep up to date with latest research in the field and contribute to maintaining and growing an active data science community at ICW Group
Specify and develop advanced AI techniques to discover patterns, insights, and trends in ICW data
Drive and strategize with other scientists and internal business units to ensure effective execution of data-driven initiatives
Work closely with IT Security and Data Governance to ensure that analytics practices meet data security, privacy, and quality policies
Collect, aggregate, and analyze data from multiple internal and external sources for use in the most advanced analytics
Contribute to development of AI and ML internal policies and help ensure Enterprise Analytics team is compliant with applicable regulations
Write code to help build and maintain data pipelines for production models
Develop the highest quality, replicable predictive and descriptive analytics for business use
Actively evaluate (tracks and validates) existing models to ensure optimal data-driven decisions and make changes as needed
Develop a strong understanding of the business issues and data challenges of the organization in order to drive meaningful insights
Communicate findings and insight to stakeholders and provide business strategy recommendations for optimizing business performance
Analyze current business processes; make recommendations to management for new, more efficient, workflows, and processes
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree required with a major in Statistics, Cognitive Science, Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Psychology, Neuroscience or related field and a minimum of 4 years of industry experience in data science roles; OR Master's Degree and a minimum of 2 years of industry experience in data science roles; OR PhD in a related field with research involving AI/ML
Strong interest in and familiarity with LLMs / generative AI
Experience with LLM tuning and distillation
Knowledge and experience with statistical and machine learning algorithms, forecasting, recommender systems, reinforcement learning, deep learning, and optimization
Cloud computing experience using several AWS tools and services
Strong knowledge and experience with Python and SQL
Containers and agile methodology
Experience with PyTorch and MLflow
Knowledge of databases and database methodology, especially Snowflake
Experience with model deployment
Knowledge in one or more of the following areas: Casual Inference, Anomaly Detection and/or modern Natural Language Processing techniques
Preferred
Ph.D. preferred
Benefits
Generous medical, dental, and vision plans
401K retirement plans and company match
Bonus potential for all positions
Paid Time Off
Paid holidays throughout the calendar year
Support you 100%
Company
ICW Group
ICW Group Insurance Companies is a top-tier, national, multi-line Property & Casualty insurance company, providing comprehensive coverage to safeguard our customers’ world.
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Rob deViere
Vice President, Head of Distribution & Marketing
Iva Yuan
Chief Actuary, Head of Reserving, Pricing and Product
Recent News
2025-10-09
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