Senior AI & Data Scientist - Remote, LLMs & Enterprise ML

Iris Software Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Part time

Job summary

Iris Software Inc. is seeking a Senior AI & Data Scientist to design, build, and deploy AI-powered solutions across Life Insurance, Investments, Membership, and Charities. This remote, contract role emphasizes end-to-end delivery, governance, and measurable business impact.

You will leverage Snowflake, PostgreSQL, and RAG-based approaches with responsible AI controls in an enterprise-scale data ecosystem, collaborating with engineering for production services and CI/CD.

Qualifications

• Strong Python and SQL skills; experience with ML libraries (e.g., scikit-learn, XGBoost, PyTorch/TensorFlow) and data science best practices.
• Hands-on experience with Snowflake (Snowpark and/or Cortex) and relational databases such as PostgreSQL.
• Experience with vector search/embeddings and knowledge retrieval patterns; familiarity with vector databases and hybrid search.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of AI solutions from problem framing and exploratory analysis through production deployment and measurement.
• Design and deliver LLM-enabled analytics and Deep Research capabilities using RAG over structured and unstructured enterprise data.
• Build agentic workflows and multi-step orchestration (tool use, function calling, retrieval, and guardrails) to automate business processes.
• Develop and deploy advanced statistical and machine learning models supporting insurance, actuarial, claims, risk, and investment decision-making.
• Engineer features and context: build reusable feature pipelines, embeddings, vector search patterns, and semantic/metadata strategies.
• Define success criteria and evaluation plans: offline tests, human-in-the-loop review, and online measurement (A/B or phased rollout).
• Productionize and operate models: partner with engineers to implement CI/CD, monitoring, drift detection, prompt/version management, and incident response runbooks.
• Apply responsible AI practices consistently: bias and fairness assessment, transparency, documentation (model cards), and audit-ready controls.
• Communicate insights and tradeoffs clearly to executives and technical teams (risk, compliance, security) and influence decisions with data.
• Contribute to reusable standards and patterns for MLOps/LLMOps across the enterprise (templates, libraries, and governance checklists).

Skills

Python

SQL

ML libraries

LLMs

MLOps

Data modeling

Tools

Snowflake

PostgreSQL

Vector search

CI/CD

APIs

Job description

Iris Software Inc. is seeking a Senior AI & Data Scientist to design, build, and deploy AI-powered solutions across Life Insurance, Investments, Membership, and Charities. This remote, contract role emphasizes end-to-end delivery, governance, and measurable business impact.

You will leverage Snowflake, PostgreSQL, and RAG-based approaches with responsible AI controls in an enterprise-scale data ecosystem, collaborating with engineering for production services and CI/CD.