Senior Data Scientist, Insurance Pricing (Remote)

Porch Group; United States; Remote; USD 139,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical plan options

Dental plan options

Vision plan

Life and AD&D

Disability benefits

401(k) with employer match

Wellbeing program

Flexible paid vacation

Paid holidays

Parental leave

Job summary

Porch Group is seeking a Senior Data Scientist, Insurance Pricing to own pricing and risk models for homeowners insurance. You will guide complex modeling from scoping to production deployment, collaborating with actuarial, product, and engineering teams to turn Porch's property data into a pricing advantage.

You will build GLM-based models and ML systems, explore non-traditional data sources, and mentor junior scientists while contributing to business outcomes like profitability and retention.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of data science experience in insurance pricing or risk modeling.
• Demonstrated ownership of complex projects end-to-end and mentoring less-experienced data scientists.
• Experience building, validating, and deploying GLM-based pricing models in production for homeowners or property/casualty lines, plus ML models for non-pricing use cases.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL, with GLMs and gradient boosting models (scikit-learn, statsmodels, xgboost, lightgbm).

Responsibilities

• Develop, validate, and deploy GLM-based pricing models (frequency, severity, and loss cost).
• Build machine learning models (GBMs, neural networks) to drive underwriting accuracy and profitability.
• Incorporate non-traditional data sources to quantify risk and inform pricing and underwriting decisions.
• Collaborate with product, actuarial, engineering, and business stakeholders to scope initiatives and integrate data science into workflows.
• Lead deployment practices including A/B testing and monitoring.
• Evaluate generative AI and LLMs for new competitive opportunities.

Skills

Python

SQL

GLM models

Machine learning

A/B testing

BigQuery

GCP

MLOps

Confluence/Jira

Geospatial data

Generative AI

Mentoring

Education

Master’s or PhD in Statistics/Math/CS

Tools

BigQuery

xgboost

LightGBM

scikit-learn

statsmodels

Confluence

Jira

Job description

Porch Group is seeking a Senior Data Scientist, Insurance Pricing to own pricing and risk models for homeowners insurance. You will guide complex modeling from scoping to production deployment, collaborating with actuarial, product, and engineering teams to turn Porch's property data into a pricing advantage.

You will build GLM-based models and ML systems, explore non-traditional data sources, and mentor junior scientists while contributing to business outcomes like profitability and retention.