Data Scientist

Annual releases gave way to two-week sprints years ago, and the platform now handles over 200 million API calls a day. We run one of the larger SaaS platforms for commercial insurance carriers, processing millions of policy transactions a year. Most engineers work remotely and come into the office one week a quarter for planning.

Overview:

Torres Labs has an opening for a Data Scientist. The Experimentation team works directly with product and finance. You'll design experiments, build forecasts and explain the results. We are headquartered in Waltham and have been hiring remotely since 2020. Employment is through our payroll partner in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Salary is paid monthly in local currency. Expect to work a schedule that overlaps with US Eastern business hours until about noon ET. You will write a lot of updates, so clear written English is important.

What you'll do:

• Validate model performance and document assumptions and limitations.
• Develop time series forecasts with Prophet, statsmodels or gradient-boosted approaches.
• Review peers' analyses for statistical correctness.
• Segment customers and build churn and lifetime value models.
• Present findings to product, marketing and finance leaders with clear recommendations.
• Build predictive models in Python using scikit-learn, XGBoost or LightGBM.

Required qualifications:

• 2-4 years of applied data science experience.
• Ability to communicate uncertainty and tradeoffs to non-technical audiences.
• Familiarity with Git and working in shared codebases.
• Data visualization in matplotlib, seaborn, Plotly or a BI tool.
• Strong Python (pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn) and SQL.
• MS or PhD in statistics, economics, computer science, physics or another quantitative field, or a BS plus equivalent experience.

Preferred qualifications:

• MLflow or another experiment tracking tool.
• Pricing or marketing mix modelling.
• Published research or strong Kaggle results.
• Spark for large datasets.

Pay and benefits:

• Two weeks of paid leave at year end.
• Annual salary review.
• Co-working space stipend.
• Company laptop.
• Health insurance through our employer-of-record partner.
• Flexible hours.

Candidates must be eligible to work in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Torres Labs.