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Data Scientist II, Interventions

Root Insurance

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Data ScienceInsuranceMid-Level (3-5 yrs)RemoteInsurance

Good for data scientists interested in insurance ML with a focus on measurable business outcomes like fraud mitigation.

AI → FinanceTransition-Friendly

Location

Remote

Salary Range

$116,664 – $145,830

Posted

Mar 15, 2026

Build ML models at Root Insurance to optimize customer interventions — fraud mitigation, credit risk, conversion, and retention in a fully remote insurtech environment.

## About the Role Root Insurance leverages ML to fundamentally reimagine insurance. The Interventions team uses machine learning to target interventions that improve customer lifetime value — including fraud mitigation, bad debt reduction, conversion optimization, and retention. ## Responsibilities - Monitor and improve existing ML models for insurance interventions - Seek new ML applications to drive measurable business impact - Conduct rigorous experiments to validate targeted interventions - Build models for fraud mitigation, bad debt, conversion, and retention - Collaborate with engineering teams to deploy models in production ## Requirements - 3+ years of data science or ML experience - Strong proficiency in Python and SQL - Experience with GLMs, gradient boosting, or deep learning - Track record of deploying ML models that drive business outcomes - Insurance or fintech experience preferred

Skills & Technologies

PythonSQLMachine LearningFraud DetectionA/B TestingGLMsInsurance Analytics

Best Backgrounds

  • data science
  • actuarial science
  • fraud analytics
  • insurance analytics

Related Titles to Explore

  • Insurance Data Scientist
  • Fraud Analytics Scientist
  • ML Engineer - Insurance
  • Risk Data Scientist

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