Shift Technology

Data Scientist / Engineer (Healthcare Payment Integrity)

US - Remote · Internship

Sponsorship not specified$120k-$130kDetected 1 day ago

Object-Oriented ProgrammingDatabricksAzureMachine LearningSparkData EngineeringData ScienceNLPLLMsRAGAgentic AILangGraphAccessibilityRecruitingUnity

About the role

This role is part of our Data Science team which is the largest team in our organization consisting of over 200+ Data Scientists throughout the world.
Our Data Scientists work in a full lifecycle role and on a broad range of subjects acquiring extensive technical and professional experience in data science, data engineering, coding, business understanding and client engagement.
Our company is small enough that each person's achievements have an impact on our overall performance, yet big enough to be a world leader and innovator in our domain.

Build and productionize data pipelines (structured, text, documents, images) optimized for LLMs and multi-modal models.
Design, develop and deploy LLM-based solutions (RAG, embeddings, instruction tuning) for claims handling, document understanding, and related use cases.
Experiment with the latest in Agentic AI technologies (Langchain/Langgraph, OpenAI Agent SDK, MCP, A2A) and develop MVP for the next generation of payment integrity solutions.
Create custom " tools " for the agent, allowing it to query internal databases, call external weather APIs, or calculate impact force based on telemetry data.
Lead client workshops, present prototypes, gather feedback and help define roadmap priorities.
Experience designing and implementing robust data pipelines for document, OCR, and multi-modal data workflows.
Demonstrated ability to effectively engage with clients, translate complex business needs into clear, actionable technical solutions, and manage stakeholder expectations.
If you're interviewing for this role, speak with your Talent Acquisition Partner to learn more about the specific details for this position.
Shift delivers AI agents that transform insurers' most critical work.
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Expert proficiency in production-level object-oriented programming (OOP) for building scalable and reliable systems.
Agentic Frameworks: Experience with integrating frameworks like LangChain/LangGraph, OpenAI Agent SDK, CrewAI, A2A/MCP with Databricks or Azure-hosted models (e.g., DBRX, OpenAI GPT-5.3, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini).

Deep expertise in Mosaic AI (formerly MosaicML), Unity Catalog, and Delta Lake.
Good understanding of Spark data architecture is a plus.
Databricks Ecosystem: Deep expertise in Mosaic AI (formerly MosaicML), Unity Catalog, and Delta Lake.

Highly Desired Skills
Experience using MLflow for the full lifecycle: from experiment tracking and prompt engineering in the AI Playground to model evaluation.
The range listed is for base compensation.
In addition to base salary, your total rewards package will include additional components such as incentive pay and benefits.
Base Salary Pay Range
$120,000 - $130,000 USD
Here are the global benefits we'd like to highlight:
Flexible remote and hybrid working options
Competitive Salary and a variable component tied to personal and company performance
Multiple Learning and Development opportunities, including Focus Fridays, a half-day each month to focus on learning and personal growth
Generous PTO and paid holidays
Mental health benefits

$120,000 - $130,000 USD
Competitive Salary and a variable component tied to personal and company performance
2 MAD Days per year (Make A Difference Days for paid volunteering)

Your role will be to actively contribute to the US Health roadmap and clients, and working on various data types such as structured claims data, free text, documents and images.
Solid foundation in ML fundamentals with practical experience in the full machine learning lifecycle, including model evaluation, monitoring, versioning, and deployment in production environments.
To support our permanent, full time employees at every stage of their careers and lives, we provide a competitive total rewards and benefits package.
Additional benefits may be offered by country, based on your eligibility - ask your recruiter for more information.

As a member of the data science team, you will be working alongside our technical experts and your role will be key to rolling out our enterprise level solutions to our clients.
Establish rigorous evaluation frameworks (LLM-as-a-judge) to ensure the agent's decisions are unbiased, legally sound, and explainable.
Our culture is built on innovation, trust, and a drive to transform the insurance industry through our SaaS platform.
We come from more than 50 different countries and cultures and together we are creating the future of insurance.

Should you require accommodation, please email accommodation@shift-technology.com and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs.

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