
Senior Applied Research Scientist
GEICO
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Chevy Chase • California • Maryland • United States
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Salary
💰 $115,000 - $230,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Lead the design and delivery of ML and GenAI solutions for complex, ambiguous, cross-functional problems.
- Define success metrics, validation plans, and pathways to production.
- Partner with product, engineering, and domain experts to translate business needs into feasible technical roadmaps.
- Design online experiments and quasi-experimental analyses; instrument and monitor business KPIs.
- Mentor junior scientists and engineers, share best practices, and cultivate a high bar for scientific rigor, coding standards, and reproducibility.
- Communicate approach, trade-offs, and results to technical and non-technical audiences; provide realistic estimates and influence decision-making across the organization.
Requirements
- Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 3+ years of experience developing, deploying, and operating AI/ML models in production.
- Strong proficiency in Python, data processing, and SQL, and in AI/ML frameworks such as PyTorch and Scikit-learn.
- Experience designing online experiments and conducting causal analyses; demonstrated ability to define, instrument, and monitor business KPIs.
- Proven experience leading end-to-end AI/ML initiatives and partnering cross-functionally with product and engineering.
Benefits
- Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family’s overall well-being.
- Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.
- Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
- Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
Machine LearningGenAIPythonSQLPyTorchScikit-learndata processingcausal analysesbusiness KPIsAI/ML models
Soft Skills
mentoringcommunicationinfluencing decision-makingcollaborationscientific rigorcoding standardsreproducibilityproblem-solvingcross-functional partnershipbest practices
Certifications
Master’s degreePhD