Lead Data Scientist, Telematics

Root was founded on the belief that car insurance is broken, and we set out to change it. We’re harnessing the power of technology to revolutionize this archaic, complicated industry. Using machine learning and mobile telematic platforms, we’ve built one of the most innovative insurtech companies in the world.

The Opportunity

We believe that a disruptive insurance company must have a principled quantitative framework at its foundation. At Root, we are committed to the rigorous development and effective deployment of modern statistical machine learning methods to problems in the insurance industry.

Root is seeking a Lead Data Scientist I to support the Telematics Data Science team. This is a hands-on role focused primarily on developing and maintaining telematics pricing and underwriting models, with a significant secondary responsibility for the data engineering and production systems that support those models.

The role is expected to spend approximately 65% of its time on Data Science and 35% on Data Engineering. Data Science responsibilities include problem definition, dataset development, feature engineering, statistical modeling, model evaluation, stakeholder validation, regulatory support, and post-deployment monitoring.

Data Engineering responsibilities include building and maintaining reliable modeling datasets, improving data pipelines and transformations, validating data quality and lineage, productionizing models, troubleshooting pipeline and system issues,…