Senior Data Scientist, Agentic AI (Insurance Underwriting)

Overview

Guardian is on a transformation journey to evolve into a modern forward-thinking insurance company committed to enhancing the wellbeing of its customers and their families. This role presents a distinctive opportunity to drive real-world impact by applyingcutting-edgeAI to transform how Guardian does business.

GuardiansData & AI teamspearheads a culture of intelligence and automation across the enterprise creating business value from advanced data and AI solutions. Our team includes data scientists engineers analysts and product leaders working together to deliver AI-driven products that power growth improve risk management and elevate customer experience.

Guardian created theData Science Lab (DSL)to reimagine insurancein light ofemergingtechnology evolving consumer needs and rapid advances in AI. The DSLexpeditesGuardians transition to data-driven decision making and fosters innovation by rapidly testing scaling and operationalizingstate-of-the-artAI.

We are seeking a Senior Data Scientist Agentic AIan experienced individual contributor with deep expertise in Agentic AI large language models (LLMs) witha track recordofdelivering enterprise level AI/ML solutions and products. and natural language processing (NLP). In this role you will be working in a team led by a Lead Data Scientist to develop and deploy advanced agentic AI and LLM-powered solutions that automate business workflows enhance decision-making and deliver measurable business outcomes. Youll collaborate with cross-functional teams of other Data Science Data Engineering Business groups. Successful candidates have strong technical foundation excel in coding detail oriented and have passion for analytical thinking and problem solving.

YouWill:

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of agentic AI solutions and LLM-powered applications that automate business processes and improve customer and employee experiences.
• Drive the end-to-end model lifecycle: data exploration and preparation model finetuning validation deployment and monitoring ensuring quality security scalability and fairness.
• Apply LLMs and generative AI to process and interpret unstructured data (e.g. insurance applications underwriters notes medical records customer interactions).
• Develop autonomous agents multi-step reasoning systems and advanced NLP pipelines that integrate with Guardians platforms.
• Translate research in agentic AI LLMs and reinforcement learning into practical production-ready solutions for underwriting automation claims automation customer servicing and risk assessment.
• Collaborate with data engineers MLOps/AIOps and product teams to ensure robust scalable and maintainable solutions.
• Contribute to standardization of tools processes and best practices.
• Adhere to AI/LLM governance documentation testing and other best practices in partnership with key stakeholders.
• Present results and recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences including senior leadership.
• Stay current on industry trends emerging technologies and best practices in agentic AI LLMs and NLP.

You are:

• Passionate about applying advanced AI techniquesespecially agentic AI LLMs and NLPto solve real-world business challenges.
• Analytical intellectually curious and experienced in leading the development and implementation of data and analytic solutions.
• A hands-on builder who enjoys moving solutions from prototype to deployment and seeing them deliver value in production.
• Comfortable collaborating in cross-functional teams and aligning technical solutions with business goals.
• An effective communicator able to present complex ideas and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

You have:

• PhD with 2 years Masters with 4 years of experience in Computer Science Engineering Statistics Applied Mathematics or related field.
• Experience in Insurance Underwriting
• 3 years of hands-on experience in AI/ML modeling and development with a primary focus on agentic AI LLMs and NLP.
• Background in insurance and underwriting preferred
• Deep expertise in LLMs generative AI agentic systems NLP and multi-step reasoning architectures (e.g. LangGraph RAG agent frameworks).
• Strong programming skills in Python and familiarity with frameworks such as PyTorch TensorFlow Hugging Face Transformers and LangChain.
• Demonstrated experience building fine-tuning and deploying LLMs and NLP solutions in production environments.
• Working knowledge of classical machine learning techniques (e.g. clustering regression XGBoost Random Forest decision trees) and their practical applications.
• Experience with data wrangling distributed computing and applying parallelism to ML solutions.
• Provenexperienceinproviding technical leadership and mentoring to data scientists and strongprojectmanagement skills with ability tomonitor/track performance forenterprise success
• Working knowledge of core software engineering concepts (version control with Git/GitHub testing logging CI/CD).
• Excellent analytical problem-solving and communication skills.
• Experience in insurance financial services or related industries is a plus.

Location:

• Three days a week at a Guardian office in New York NY Holmdel NJ Bethlehem PA or Boston MA

Work Authorization

• Guardian Life is not currently or in the foreseeable future sponsoring employment order to be a successful applicant you must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship now or in the future.

Salary Range:

The salary range reflected above is a good faith estimate of base pay for the primary location of the position. The salary for this position ultimately will be determined based on the education experience knowledge and abilities of the successful addition to salary this role may also be eligible for annual sales or other incentive compensation.

Our Promise

At Guardian youll have the support and flexibility to achieve your professional and personal goals. Through skill-building leadership development and philanthropic opportunities we provide opportunities to build communities and grow your career surrounded by diverse colleagues with high ethical standards.

Inspire Well-Being

As part of Guardians Purpose to inspire well-being we are committed to offering contemporary supportive flexible and inclusive benefits and resources to our colleagues. Explore our company benefits at apply to full-time eligible employees. Interns are not eligible for most Company benefits.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Guardian is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to age race color creed religion sex affectional or sexual orientation national origin ancestry marital status disability military or veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable law.

Accommodations

Guardian is committed to providing access equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment its services programs and also provides reasonable accommodations to qualified job applicants (and employees) to accommodate the individuals known limitations related to pregnancy childbirth or related medical conditions unless doing so would create an undue hardship. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process to perform essential job functions and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment please contact Please note: this resource is for accommodation requests only. For all other inquires related to your application and careers at Guardian refer to the Guardian Careers site.

Visa Sponsorship

Guardian is not currently or in the foreseeable future sponsoring employment order to be a successful applicant. you must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship.

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