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Posted Apr 3Actuarial Data Scientist
San Francisco, United StatesOn-site
Requirements
- The infrastructure behind the AI boom — data centers, semiconductor fabs, renewable energy assets — has to be built and insured.
- Our AI performs the same underwriting workflows in seconds, and integrates real-time data from construction technology partners — Procore, Autodesk, OpenSpace, DroneDeploy, and others — to see risk as it actually exists, not just as it was reported on a static form.
- experience building and deploying personal auto or commercial lines predictive pricing models in production - Familiarity with actuarial concepts (loss development, exposure rating, credibility) - Strong foundation in statistics: GLMs, GBDTs, time series analysis, heavy tail distributions, and Bayesian methods - Proficiency in Python and SQL -
- Experience with feature engineering on messy, real-world, small data - Ability to reason from first principles and communicate results crisply to non-technical audiences - AI-native mindset: you already use LLMs and AI tools to accelerate your own work Nice-to-Haves -
Benefits
- WHAT WE DO Shepherd is an AI-native commercial insurance platform transforming how high-hazard industries get covered.
- We're pursuing the most ambitious technical vision in commercial insurance: fully autonomous underwriting.
- We're building: - Faster decisions - Smarter, more accurate pricing - Better risk outcomes for insureds who invest in safer practices We're not just modernizing insurance products.
- ABOUT THE ROLE Shepherd is building the data infrastructure and predictive models that power modern commercial insurance.
- Experience in insurance, insurtech, fintech, or other regulated industries - Exposure to telematics pricing models -
- Experience with NLP/document extraction from unstructured insurance submissions - Prior work with model deployment infrastructure (AWS)
- BENEFITS 🏥 Premium Healthcare 100% contribution to top-tier health, dental, and vision 🥕 Fertility
- benefits and family building support 🏖️ Unlimited PTO Flexibility to take the time off, recharge, and perform 🥗 Daily lunches, dinners, and snacks We work together, and enjoy meals together too 🖥️ SF, NYC, Dallas-Fort Worth, Chicago and LA Offices 📚 Professional Development Access to premium coaching, including leadership development 🏦 Competitive 401(k) Plan 🐶 Dog-friendly office Plenty of dogs to play with and make friends with in the SF office