Data Scientist II: Generative AI & ML Solutions

MetLife; Cary (NC); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plan

Vision and dental insurance

401(k) with employer matching

Life insurance

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Job summary

MetLife’s Data & Analytics team seeks a Data Scientist II to design, implement, and scale data science, ML, and Generative AI solutions that drive business value. You’ll handle data acquisition, SQL, feature engineering, model development, deployment, and responsible AI practices while collaborating with governance, DevOps, and BI teams.

You’ll leverage Databricks, Spark, and cloud environments to deliver production-ready solutions and communicate insights to stakeholders, ensuring quality and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Operations Research, Computer Science, Engineering, Social Sciences, or related quantitative field.
• 3-5 years of experience in data science, analytics, machine learning, or related quantitative disciplines.
• Hands-on experience with Python, SQL, statistics, hypothesis testing, feature engineering, and predictive modeling.
• Experience with one or more machine learning frameworks (Scikit-learn OR TensorFlow OR PyTorch).
• Experience with data preparation, data wrangling, analytics solution development, and stakeholder engagement.
• Foundational knowledge of Generative AI including large language models, prompting, embeddings, vector stores, and RAG.
• Strong analytical, communication, and structured problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, validate, deploy, monitor, and optimize analytics, machine learning, and AI solutions.
• Perform data extraction, SQL development, data preparation, exploratory analysis, feature engineering, and model evaluation.
• Develop production-grade predictive and Generative AI solutions using structured and unstructured data.
• Support foundation model adaptation, prompt engineering, embeddings, vector databases, RAG-based AI applications, and agentic AI workflows.
• Utilize Databricks, Apache Spark, and cloud-based analytics environments where applicable.
• 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 including Data Governance, Data Quality, Data Modeling, Data Architecture, Data Science, DevOps, and BI & Insights teams.
• Ensure adherence to quality, security, compliance, explainability, MLOps, model governance, and responsible AI standards.

Skills

Python

SQL

Statistics

Hypothesis testing

Feature engineering

Predictive modeling

ML frameworks

Generative AI

Data wrangling

Stakeholder engagement

Analytical thinking

Communication

Structured problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Databricks

Apache Spark

Cloud platforms

spaCy

Transformers

OCR

Job description

MetLife’s Data & Analytics team seeks a Data Scientist II to design, implement, and scale data science, ML, and Generative AI solutions that drive business value. You’ll handle data acquisition, SQL, feature engineering, model development, deployment, and responsible AI practices while collaborating with governance, DevOps, and BI teams.

You’ll leverage Databricks, Spark, and cloud environments to deliver production-ready solutions and communicate insights to stakeholders, ensuring quality and