Senior Data Scientist: Agentic AI & Optimization

Honor; United States; Remote; USD 194,000 - 216,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity packages

401K with employer match

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Disability and life insurance

Generous time off

Job summary

Honor is seeking a Data Scientist to help guide the company's adoption of agentic AI and optimization approaches. You will build descriptive and predictive models, design robust data frameworks, and measure impact across the organization.

Expect collaboration with Engineering, PM, and Care Operations to drive real business outcomes. The ideal candidate has 7+ years of experience, strong Python production experience, and deep expertise in either Optimization or Agentic AI, with excellent

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional experience solving complex business problems and shipping/maintaining Python in production.
• Strong foundation in traditional predictive machine learning (classification, regression, tree-based models) and understanding when to use standard models vs. LLMs.
• Deep expertise in Optimization or Agentic AI with practical, concrete experience building agentic workflows.
• Ability to set success metrics upfront and connect technical solutions to business goals.
• Excellent mathematical and statistical foundations from a quantitative degree or equivalent experience.
• Ability to manage ambiguity, drive clarity, and deliver measurable outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Leverage data to solve meaningful business problems with appropriate technical complexity.
• Collaborate with Engineering, PM, and Care Operations to define strategy and execute.
• Design and implement robust frameworks and metrics for data products’ impact.
• Research operational problems and propose practical solutions.
• Lead design, implementation, and evaluation of descriptive and predictive models.
• Champion LLM-driven workflows and production-ready agent architectures.

Skills

Python in production

Machine learning

XGBoost

Agentic AI

Optimization

LLM workflows

Communication

Problem solving

Education

Quantitative degree (CS/Math/Statistics/Economics/Physics)

Tools

AWS

Docker

CI/CD

MLOps

Job description

Honor is seeking a Data Scientist to help guide the company's adoption of agentic AI and optimization approaches. You will build descriptive and predictive models, design robust data frameworks, and measure impact across the organization.

Expect collaboration with Engineering, PM, and Care Operations to drive real business outcomes. The ideal candidate has 7+ years of experience, strong Python production experience, and deep expertise in either Optimization or Agentic AI, with excellent