Graduate Data Scientist

Jackalope Digital LLC; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible remote work

Hybrid options

Learning & development

Generous PTO

Mental health benefits

MAD Days

Job summary

Shift Technology is hiring a recent graduate as a Data Scientist to contribute to fraud detection, anti-money laundering, and claims automation. You will join a team with deep data science expertise in our London office, with a 2–3 days per week in person.

You will work with structured data, free text, documents, and images, develop models, test and tune them, and put them into production. You will interact with clients and stakeholders to gather feedback and help shape the product roadmap.

Qualifications

• Recent graduate seeking first full-time Data Scientist role.
• Ability to write maintainable production-quality code.
• Understanding of statistics and machine learning concepts.

Responsibilities

• Develop and productionize models for fraud detection and automation.
• Work with structured data, free text, documents, and images.
• Collaborate with clients and stakeholders to refine product roadmaps.

Skills

Code-savvy

AI-savvy

Client facing

Business English

Languages a plus

Education

Degree in computer science or related

Tools

SQL

ElasticSearch

Job description

Shift delivers AI agents that transform insurers' most critical work. By combining deep industry expertise and unmatched data resources, Shift provides proven results that have earned the trust of hundreds of the world's leading insurers. Our insurance-grade AI is accurate, explainable, and secure—empowering human experts to move with unmatched speed, total confidence, and a renewed focus on the people they serve.

Our culture is built on innovation, trust, and a drive to transform the insurance industry through our SaaS platform. We come from more than 50 different countries and cultures and together we are creating the future of insurance.

Learn more at www.shift-technology.com

You are a recent graduate, looking for your first full time Data Science opportunity.

As a Data Scientist you will work on a broad range of subjects actively contributing to the design and evolution of our suite of products focused on fraud detection, anti-money laundering, and claims automation. We are dedicated to providing innovative solutions, and you'll be part of a team with extensive technical and professional expertise in data science, data engineering, coding, business understanding, and client interactions. Additionally, we tackle a diverse array of data types, including structured data, unstructured text, documents, and images.

This opportunity is perfect for you if you're seeking a permanent role, and can come to the London office 2-3 times per week. Shift is the ideal place to kickstart your career journey!

What you'll do...

• You will actively participate in the development of our suite of products: fraud detection, anti-money laundering, and claim automation; and working on various data types such as structured data, free text, documents, and images.
• Implementation of the data engineering, usually from client extracts to the insertion of the 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 it is for direct user feedback, presenting business cases, or defining the roadmap of evolutions.

What you bring...

We are looking for candidates with diverse skills to help us build excellent technology solutions for our clients and be proficient in the following skills:

• Code-savvy, either by having a degree in computer science and/or having developed some apps with actual users- writing scripts for models and notebooks is not enough at Shift, we thrive on people who can write maintainable, production-quality code that will run everyday without breaking.
• AI-savvy, either by having a degree in machine learning and/or statistics. Having a clear understanding of statistics and machine learning problems, tasks and common resolutions is important to communicate internally and explain to the client how the product is working.
• Client facing. You will need to be comfortable and open to communicating with our clients on a regular basis
• Business smart. We don’t expect candidates to know the insurance sector, but we want applicants who are interested in learning and mastering the business aspects of our products
• Business fluent in English. We are an international company with offices in many countries and 40+ nationalities, the Shift working language is English.
• Additional languages a Plus

Recruitment Process

• Recruitment screening
• Technical exercise
• Technical interview with Senior Data Scientist
• Final interview with Hiring Manager

To support our permanent, full time employees at every stage of their careers and lives, we provide a competitive total rewards and benefits package. Here are the global benefits we’d like to highlight:

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

Additional benefits may be offered by country, based on your eligibility - ask your recruiter for more information. Intern and Apprentice positions may receive some of these benefits - ask your recruiter for more details.

AI tools are used to help review applications for this role. Read our AI in Recruitment Notice for what the AI considers, how to request a human review, and our most recent bias audit.

At Shift we strive to be a diverse and inclusive workforce. We welcome applications from and hire people who will contribute to the diversity of our company, without regard to race, color, religion, marital status, age, national or ethnic origin, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other non-merit criteria. Shift Technology is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our application and employment process. Should you require accommodation, please email ----- and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs.

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