Data Scientist (recent graduate)

About the Company

The future of insurance starts with AI. Shift Technology's AI-powered products have benefited over 300 million policyholders globally by reducing underwriting risk, identifying more fraud, and automating critical tasks throughout the claims process. Shift harnesses the power of AI to enable the world’s leading insurance organizations to make better decisions. Our products help insurers improve operational efficiency, reduce costs, and deliver superior customer experiences to their policyholders. Our culture is built on innovation, trust, and a drive to transform the insurance industry. We are a diverse team from more than 50 different countries and cultures, creating the future of insurance.

What You'll Do...

The data science team is responsible for technically delivering Shift products to clients, a key role in the success of our projects. This is a hands-on job where you will perform a variety of technical tasks within an AI company:

• Implementation of the data engineering, from client extracts to the insertion of data in our data stores (SQL, ElasticSearch).
• Developing, testing, tuning models, and putting them into production for tasks such as fraud detection and automation detection in complex environments.
• Automate key business tasks by implementing them in our production process framework in C#.
• Conduct meetings with clients and interact with external stakeholders, whether for direct user feedback, presenting business cases, or defining the roadmap of evolutions for that client.

You will actively participate in the definition and development of our suite of products on fraud detection, anti-money laundering, and claim automation, working on various data types such as structured data, free text, documents, and images.

What You Bring...

We are looking for individuals with diverse skills and proficiencies and are open to candidates who may not possess every required skill but are willing to build expertise. As a result, you are:

• A recent graduate, looking to start your data science career, with 1-2 years of relevant experience (including internships).
• Code-savvy, either through a degree in computer science or experience developing applications with actual users. You should be able to write maintainable, production-quality code.
• AI-savvy, either through a degree in machine learning and/or statistics or a strong interest in these subjects. A clear understanding of statistical and machine learning problems, tasks, and common resolutions is important.
• Client facing. You will need to be comfortable, clear, and professional when interacting with clients during meetings and via email.
• Business smart. While not expected to know the insurance sector, you must be willing to learn and master the business aspects of our products.
• English speakers. English is the working language at Shift.
• Fluent in a language spoken in South East Asia, preferably Thai or Indonesian, additionally Malay, Mandarin, or Cantonese.

Recruitment Process

• Coding exercise
• Talent Acquisition interview
• Technical interview
• Hiring Manager interview

Benefits

To support our permanent, full-time employees, we provide a competitive total rewards and benefits package, including:

• Flexible remote and hybrid working options
• Competitive Salary and a variable component tied to personal and company performance
• Company equity
• Focus Fridays, a half-day each month for learning and personal growth
• Generous PTO and paid holidays
• Mental health benefits
• 2 MAD Days per year (Make A Difference Days for paid volunteering)