Data Scientist

SHIFT TECHNOLOGY PTE. LTD.; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance technology firm is seeking a data scientist to join their team in Singapore. This role involves implementing data engineering processes, developing machine learning models, and interacting with clients to ensure successful project outcomes. Ideal candidates are recent graduates with coding skills, an understanding of AI, and strong communication abilities. The position offers opportunities for rapid career advancement as well as a comprehensive benefits package including flexible working options.

Benefits

Flexible remote and hybrid working options

Competitive Salary

Company equity

Generous PTO

Mental health benefits

2 paid volunteering days per year

Qualifications

• Recent graduate or early career professional with 1-2 years of relevant experience.
• Ability to write maintainable, production-quality code.
• Understanding of statistics and machine learning is key.

Responsibilities

• Deliver technical products to clients as part of the data science team.
• Implement data engineering processes and utilize SQL and ElasticSearch.
• Develop, test, and tune machine learning models for various applications.

Skills

Coding skills

AI understanding

Client-facing communication

Business acumen

Fluency in English and a language from South East Asia

Education

Degree in computer science or related field

Degree in machine learning or statistics

Tools

SQL

C#

ElasticSearch

Job description

Did you know that about 10% of all insurance payouts are flowing directly into the pockets of fraudsters? The future of insurance starts with Decisions Made Better.

Shift Technology harnesses the power of AI to enable the world’s leading insurance organizations to make better decisions. Our products automate and optimize decisions from underwriting to claims, resulting in increased operational efficiency, reduced costs, and superior customer experiences for millions of people around the globe.

Our culture is built on innovation, trust, and a drive to transform the insurance industry by imagining and innovating solutions that impact insurers and their customers - like you! We come from more than 50 different countries and cultures and together we are creating the future of insurance.

Shift Technology offers a unique opportunity to brilliant candidates to accelerate their careers in data science

• Data scientists work on a broad range of subjects, acquiring a lot of technical and professional experience in data science, data engineering, coding, business understanding and client interactions; skills invaluable in any career.
• Our company is small enough that each person’s achievements have an impact on overall performance, yet big enough to be a world leader in our domain.
• We are a fast growing company, the best contributors will grow to managerial or product tech lead positions much more rapidly than in bigger companies

What you’ll do…

The data science team is in charge of technically delivering the Shift products to clients, the key role in the success of our projects with clients. It is a hands‑on job, expect to be doing everything you can imagine from the technical side in an AI company:

• 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 in 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 direct user feedback, presenting business cases or defining the roadmap of evolutions for that client

You will actively participate in the definition and development of our suite of products on fraud detection, anti‑money laundering and claim automation, working on various data types such as structured data, free text, documents and images.

What you bring…

As a result of the range of the role, we are looking for people with diverse skills and proficiencies to help make our customers successful. We are open to people not having exactly all of the required skills, but in each one of those they must be willing to build expertise.

As a result, you are:

• Recent graduate, looking to start your data science career. Early career stage, 1‑2 years relevant experience (including internships)
• Code‑savvy, either by having a degree in computer science and/or having developed some apps with actual users, or by willing to spend a lot of time practicing. 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 or be looking to work on those subjects. 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, clear and professional when talking to clients during meetings and by email. Expect to talk with a client every other day and grow your communicational and presentational skills!
• Business smart. We don’t expect candidates to know the insurance sector, but we want people who can learn and master the business aspects of our products
• English speakers. We are an international company with offices in many countries and 50+ nationalities, the Shift working language is English.
• Fluent in a language spoken in South East Asia, of preference or Thai or Indonesian. Additionally Malay, Mandarin, or Cantonese.

Recruitment Process

• Talent Acquisition interview
• Coding exercise
• Technical interview
• Hiring Manager interview

Benefits

To support our 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
• Company equity
• 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)

Shift Technology does not accept unsolicited CVs from recruiters or employment agencies in response to the Shift Technology Careers page or a Shift Technology social media post. Any unsolicited CVs, including those submitted directly to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Shift Technology