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# Data scientist

- **Company:** Zurich Insurance
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Neural Networks, Association Rule Learning, Microsoft Azure, Cluster Analysis, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Performance Tuning, SQL Databases, Unstructured Data, Large Language Models, Random Forest, Prompt Engineering, Deep Learning, Probability Networks, Machine Learning Operations, GPT, Recurrent Neural Networks, Databricks, Programming Languages
- **Published:** July 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://arc.dev/remote-jobs/j/redirect/p48zqrbhju

## About the Role

* University education (Bachelor's degree or higher).
 * Ideal for fresh graduates or students finishing their degree.
 * Working knowledge of Python and basic data science packages.
 * Passion working with data and developing insights for use in business decisions.
 * Strong problem-solving and analytical skills from the following:
 * Advanced knowledge of statistical and predictive modeling techniques such as machine learning models (GBM, Random Forest etc.), decision trees, probability networks, association rules, clustering, regression, GLMs, SVMs, HMMs, time series, survival analysis, neural networks and their application to business decisions.
 * Use state-of-the-art deep learning approaches (e.g. CNN, transformer, RNN/LSTM/GRU, GCN/GNN) to extract value from massive amounts of unstructured data (text, images).
 * Advanced knowledge of fine-tuning (e.g. PEFT, LoRA, RLHF) and customizing large language models (e.g. GPT, BERT, Flan-T5, Llama, Dolly, BART), embedding approaches (e.g. Word2Vec, t-SNE), prompt engineering, and vectorization.
 * Strong verbal and written communication skills, especially the ability to translate technical results for business audiences.
 * English - B2 or better.
 * Experience with Azure and Databricks is an advantage.
 * Experience with SQL and other programming languages is an advantage.
 * Prior work experience in insurance is a plus

## Description

As a Data Scientist, your main tasks will involve:

 * Understand business problems and structure analytical approaches to solve them.
 * Generate proof of concepts from data that help deliver improved business results.
 * Prepare and pre-process datasets needed to deliver analytical solutions.
 * Generate distinctive risk insights that deliver improved business results.
 * Build and implement predictive models and other analytical solutions using both structured and unstructured data.
 * Collaborate with Data Engineers, ML/AI Ops, and IT teams to deploy models into production environments and monitor models performance.
 * Support communication of findings, implications, and performance of the models to business stakeholders.


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