Senior Applied Research Scientist

GEICO

Senior Research Scientist leading AI/ML solution design and delivery at GEICO. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver measurable business impact and mentor junior scientists.

Posted 5/27/2026full-timeBethesda • California, Maryland, New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $115,000 - $230,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

PythonPyTorchScikit-LearnSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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, de-risking assumptions and aligning milestones to outcomes.
Design online experiments and quasi-experimental analyses; instrument and monitor business KPIs to quantify value and inform decision-making.
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

What you’ll need

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

Comp & perks

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.

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Hard Skills & Tools

Machine LearningGenerative AIPythonSQLPyTorchScikit-learndata processingcausal analysisKPI monitoringAI/ML model deployment

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringcommunicationcollaborationdecision-makingproblem-solvinginfluencingscientific rigorcoding standardsreproducibility

Certifications

Master’s degreePhD