Data Scientist, AI Enablement

Role Description

As a Data Scientist, you'll develop the AI and machine learning that powers our products. You'll develop and evaluate models, work with LLMs and the data behind them, and turn business problems into working AI features alongside the engineers and stakeholders you partner with.

What you will do

• Build, evaluate, and ship models that power our AI products, from ML to LLM-based approaches.
• Turn business problems into well-defined data science work, and the results into clear recommendations.
• Gather, explore, and model the data behind our AI products.
• Partner with engineers and stakeholders to get models into production and in front of users.
• Build the evaluations, guardrails, and prompts that make our LLM features accurate and reliable.

Qualifications

• An early-career data scientist who builds and ships models that solve real problems.
• A strong foundation in statistics, machine learning, and model development.
• Python and SQL, and comfort working with real, messy data.
• A solid understanding of modern AI: LLMs, RAG, prompt engineering, evaluation, and guardrails.
• Use AI coding agents effectively in your day-to-day work, with the judgment to know when to use them and when not to.

Requirements

• Built and shipped LLM-powered applications (agents, vector stores, production evaluations).
• Document understanding, NLP, or other unstructured-data experience.
• MLOps: deploying, monitoring, and retraining models in production.

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.

Company Description

Symetra is a national financial services company dedicated to helping people achieve their financial goals and feel confident about the future. In our daily work, we’re guided by the principles of Value, Transparency and Sustainability. This means we provide products and services people need at a competitive price, we communicate clearly and openly so people understand what they’re buying, and we design products—and operate our company—to stand the test of time. We’re committed to showing up for our communities, lifting up our employees, and standing up for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). Join our team and help us create a world where more people have access to financial freedom.