Senior Data Scientist

At Fairmatic, we’re on a mission to make roads safer—one fleet at a time. We’re revolutionizing auto insurance with AI and data-driven insights, offering personalized options that reward safe driving with meaningful savings. Our predictive risk models, trained on 200 billion miles of driving data, have been tested by hundreds of thousands of drivers, proving their real-world impact. Our leadership team brings together serial entrepreneurs, insurance industry pioneers, and seasoned startup veterans—raising over $88M in funding in under a year. We’re an insurtech company with AI at our core—but at Fairmatic, AI isn’t just for engineers. We believe everyone can elevate their workflow with the latest AI tools. Join our global team of curious, adaptable technologists and problem-solvers who are passionate about making a real-world difference! We are looking for a talented Senior Data Scientist for our Risk Intelligence team. Risk Intelligence is at the core of everything we do. In this role, you will research, develop and improve the machine learning models predicting claims frequency, claims severity and fraud detection. You will work on automating claims payouts and enhancing other aspects of rating, claims, and customer experience (e.g. insight to improve fleet safety). This role involves continuous experimentation, A/B testing, and an iterative approach to productizing our learnings. You will work closely with product management, underwriting, actuaries, machine learning engineers and other product/engineering teams. A day in the life
  • Use advanced statistics, machine learning, and mathematical approaches to develop highly predictive risk models to improve our underwriting and claims settlement processes
  • Assess Fairmatic’s modelling techniques, identify improvements and communicate results with internal stakeholders, including leadership, to ensure these are incorporated into business processes
  • Create POCs to validate new product ideas and experiments to improve existing predictive models
  • Design data collection strategies and their applications for building new products
  • Provide technical mentorship to other team members
  • Exemplify and foster Fairmatic’s humble, collaborative and impact-obsessed culture
  • The skills you will bring:
  • MSc/Ph.D. in Statistics, Machine Learning, or a related field, with 5+ years of experience as a data scientist.
  • High proficiency in statistics, machine learning algorithms, data manipulation and analysis.
  • Extensive experience in research-oriented roles, analyzing business problems from a data science perspective, conducting literature research, and implementing and testing solutions.
  • Expertise in supervised and unsupervised machine learning models (e.g., GLM, GAM, XGBoost, Deep Learning).
  • A proactive approach to staying updated with the latest developments in AI and incorporating them to enhance existing products.
  • A product-driven mindset with a knack for transforming research outcomes into impactful products.
  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate experiment goals and methodologies clearly and communicate insights effectively to the team.
  • Your tech skills should include:
  • Hands-on programming experience with Python.
  • Experience with machine learning frameworks such as Keras or PyTorch, and libraries like scikit-learn and pandas.
  • Experience with risk models and insurance companies - (not necessary, but useful)
  • Experience with telematics data and solution - (not necessary, but useful)
  • Experience in deploying production solutions -(not necessary, but useful)
  • Some of our Tel Aviv Office Benefits & Perks:

    Unlimited vacation
    Payment for sick leave from day one
    Keren Hishtalmut and Pension 
    Commuter and parking benefits
    Hybrid working model
    Mobile and home internet allowance
    Team events, a fully-stocked kitchen, and happy hours
    Stipends for wellness and entertainment
    Paid company trips both nationally and internationally
    Awesome Fairmatic gifts and swag!

    At Fairmatic we’re on a mission to make roads safer, one fleet at a time. We think about insurance, risk and underwriting in an unconventional way. Auto insurance has alway been unfair: safe and unsafe drivers that look alike pay the same. Because of this, safe drivers end up subsidizing risky ones. It doesn’t make sense. We’re using data and AI to introduce a personalized option that incentivizes safe driving with savings. Our predictive risk models have been trained with nearly 200 billion miles of driving data and tested with hundreds of thousands of paying drivers with industry-leading underwriting results. And we’re just getting started.Our leadership team includes serial entrepreneurs, insurance industry savants and start-up veterans. We’ve raised $42M from leading VCs as well as insurtech, fintech and technology industry angel investors.At Fairmatic we do our best work while living our best lives, regardless of where we are. We have thriving teams across the globe and we are constantly looking for talented folks to welcome into the family. We are a curious, adaptable and diverse bunch of technologists and problem solvers who are obsessed about creating positive impact in the world. In our work together we strive for close collaboration, humbleness and constant learning.

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