Who's Clearcover?

Clearcover is the smarter car insurance company. We use powerful technology to offer everyday drivers better coverage for less money. We’re proud to be one of the fastest growing startups in Chicago, and we’re currently looking to add a few more extraordinary people to our team.

What is a Data Scientist at Clearcover?

Clearcover has an enormous range of opportunities around data science and machine learning ranging from marketing and acquisition, fraud detection, customer experience, and claims payment. As a Data Scientist, you will work closely with our business partners, product teams, data engineers, and machine learning engineers to build and deploy machine learning and AI models to create and deliver real and measurable value for our customers. We’re looking for someone curious and passionate about data and machine learning and using them to solve real world problems.

What will you do?

• Work with our product managers and business stakeholders to identify and scope the highest value data science problems
• Explore and understand our data and how they can feed production-grade machine learning models
• Proactively utilize data and business understanding for feature engineering 
• Build, prototype, and deploy state-of-the-art machine learning models to solve real business problems
• Communicate, interpret, and explain modeling output to stakeholders
• Measure value of the machine learning models we deploy

What do you need?

• 1+ years of professional experience working as a data scientist
• Experience using the Python data science stack; including pandas, scikit-learn, NumPy, XGBoost, notebook environments, etc.
• Experience with Python, including object-oriented programming
• Knowledge of SQL, including Snowflake or similar systems
• Exposure to different types of machine learning techniques
• A strong conceptual understanding of machine learning applied to real-world data, including the ability to identify and articulate modeling and data issues
• Ability to work in teams
• Ability to quickly learn the latest ML and AI technology 
• Ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiences

Nice to Haves?

• Experience working in insurance, marketing, or fraud
• An advanced degree

What's in it for you?

• Unlimited vacation, we hire adults
• Equity for all employees, so you own a piece of the pie too
• Dental and Vision, we've got you covered 100%
• Medical, we cover the vast majority of your premiums to make the cost of you and your family's coverage affordable. Plus, we contribute to your HSA and HRA (cha-ching)
• We invest in your future by contributing 3% of your salary to a 401(K), even if you don't
• Come to work pre-taxed through our FSA commuter benefits 
• and yes, we have unlimited LaCroix, beer, snacks and the occasional ice cream social

Clearcover is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) that welcomes and encourages all applicants to apply regardless of age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identify and/or expression, national origin, disability, veteran status, marital or parental status, ancestry, citizenship status, pregnancy or other reasons prohibited by law.