Data Scientist II: AI, ML & Generative Analytics

MetLife; Tampa (FL); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

MetLife seeks a Data Scientist II to design and implement scalable data science, ML, Generative AI, and advanced analytics solutions that drive business value. You’ll cover the full analytics lifecycle from data prep to model deployment and monitoring in a responsible AI framework.

This hybrid role requires 3 days in the office per week in the United States, with a salary range of $90,000–$115,000 plus incentive opportunities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field.
• 3-5 years of data science/analytics experience.
• Hands-on Python, SQL, statistics, and predictive modeling.
• Experience with ML frameworks (Scikit-learn OR TensorFlow OR PyTorch).
• Experience with data prep, wrangling, analytics solution development, and stakeholder engagement.
• Foundational knowledge of Generative AI incl. LLMs, prompting, embeddings, vector stores, and RAG.
• Strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, validate, deploy, monitor, and optimize analytics, ML, and AI solutions.
• Perform data extraction, SQL development, data prep, exploratory analysis, feature engineering, and model evaluation.
• Develop production-grade predictive and Generative AI solutions from structured and unstructured data.
• Support foundation model adaptation, prompt engineering, embeddings, vector databases, and RAG-based AI applications.
• Utilize Databricks, Apache Spark, and cloud analytics environments.
• Generate actionable insights and communicate business impact to stakeholders.
• Monitor solution performance and drive continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with Business, Technology, Operations, and D&A capabilities teams.
• Ensure adherence to quality, security, compliance, explainability, MLOps, and governance.

Skills

Python

SQL

Statistics

Hypothesis testing

Predictive modeling

Scikit-learn

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Data wrangling

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Databricks

Apache Spark

Cloud platforms

Job description

MetLife seeks a Data Scientist II to design and implement scalable data science, ML, Generative AI, and advanced analytics solutions that drive business value. You’ll cover the full analytics lifecycle from data prep to model deployment and monitoring in a responsible AI framework.

This hybrid role requires 3 days in the office per week in the United States, with a salary range of $90,000–$115,000 plus incentive opportunities.