About Harbor.ai: Harbor.ai is an InsurTech startup aiming to revolutionize the enterprise insurance market. Our technology simplifies the process for insurance brokers to identify optimal coverage for their clients continuously, and this is just the beginning. Our mission is to revolutionize underwriting for better, faster, and smarter processes. As we pursue this goal, we are implementing a data-driven business model that fundamentally reshapes how insurance products are sold. Established in 2018, Harbor.ai is venture-backed and based in New York.
About the Role: We’re looking for a Data Scientist to join our growing data team. In this role, you’ll focus on building document extraction systems and developing data-driven solutions that power our underwriting automation platform. You’ll collaborate closely with engineers and product teams to turn messy, real-world insurance data into production-ready insights and models. This is a hands-on role where you’ll contribute to both applied machine learning and the infrastructure that makes our systems scalable, reliable, and impactful.
What You’ll Do
- Develop and refine document extraction workflows to structure and enrich insurance data.
- Work with data engineers to design scalable data pipelines and production-ready infrastructure.
- Apply machine learning and statistical methods to improve automation across the underwriting process.
- Explore and evaluate new modeling approaches for document understanding, NLP, and tabular data.
- Partner with product and engineering teams to deliver data solutions that directly support customers.
- Contribute to best practices in data quality, reproducibility, and interpretability.
- Help shape the future of our data science practice in a fast-growing, venture-backed startup.
Required
- STEM Bachelor's degree
- 2+ years of experience in applied data science or ML engineering.
- Strong proficiency in Python and SQL.
- Experience building and deploying models in production environments.
- Solid understanding of NLP and/or document understanding systems.
- Background in statistical modeling, feature engineering, and experimental design.
- Familiarity with ML lifecycle management tools (e.g., MLflow, W&B).
- Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS preferred).
- Strong problem-solving skills and comfort working in ambiguous, data-rich domains.
Preferred
- STEM Master's Degree
- Experience with insurance or financial services data.
- Background in reinforcement learning, interpretable ML, or graph-based models.
- Familiarity with data versioning and lineage tracking tools.
- Experience working in high-growth startups.
Note to All Applicants: Harbor.ai is committed to providing reasonable support (called accommodations) in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions, or sincerely held religious beliefs, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support. If you need support, please reach out to Careers@harborai.net.
Individual pay is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity or sales incentives, if applicable; bonuses are not guaranteed.
Harbor.ai is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law. We may use your information to maintain the safety and security of Harbor.ai, its employees, and others as required or permitted by law. Additionally, Harbor.ai participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law.
Harbor.ai is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at Careers@harborai.net.
