Data Scientist

Our Company

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For over 50 years, AmeriLife has been a leader in the development, marketing and distribution of annuity, life and health insurance solutions for those planning for and living in retirement.

Associates get satisfaction from knowing they provide agents, marketers and carrier partners the support needed to succeed in a rapidly evolving industry.

Job Summary

AmeriLife is a national leader in insurance and financial services. Our AI & Data Science team is small, high-impact, and building a modern AI capability from the ground up on Databricks. You’ll ship production solutions — from predictive forecasting to AI agents — that directly transform how the business operates across our Health and Wealth verticals.Job Description

Why This Role Stands Out

• Databricks-first platform — Lakehouse architecture with Unity Catalog, MLflow, and scalable compute
• Real AI work — design and deploy AI agents, RAG systems, and LLM-powered solutions in production
• End-to-end ownership — from problem framing through deployment and monitoring
• Direct business impact — work with business leaders on high-visibility initiatives
• Shape the future — influence technical direction, tooling, and best practices on a growing team

What You’ll Do

As a Data Scientist on our AI & Data Science team, you will partner with engineering, analytics, and business stakeholders to translate complex problems into scalable, production-ready solutions. Your work will span the full lifecycle — from exploratory analysis through model deployment and ongoing optimization.

Day-to-day, you will design and build predictive models for forecasting and optimization, develop intelligent automation using AI agents and large language models, engineer features and pipelines on the Databricks Lakehouse platform, and evaluate and iterate on both traditional ML and generative AI solutions to ensure they deliver reliable busines...