AI Engineer / Data Scientist

Hong Kong 4 days agoFull-time External
Negotiable
Our insurance client is looking for a Data Scientist to join its AI Solutions & Innovation function. The role focuses on designing, building, and industrialising AI-driven solutions that support innovation and can be deployed across multiple markets. Main Responsibilities • Design and develop AI and machine learning solutions aligned with business and innovation objective • Translate business or innovation ideas into practical, deployable AI use cases • Build, test, and iterate machine learning models with a clear path to production • Collaborate closely with: o AI and innovation leads o engineering and platform teams o business stakeholders • Contribute to proof-of-concepts, pilots, and solution industrialisation • Support model evaluation, validation, and performance monitoring • Document approaches, assumptions, and trade-offs to enable reuse and scaling • Stay up to date on AI and Generative AI trends and assess their relevance to the insurance domain Qualifications & Experience • 2 to 5 years of experience as a Data Scientist, AI Engineer, or applied ML profile • Hands-on experience delivering end-to-end AI use cases • Exposure to production or near-production environment • Strong proficiency in Python for data science and machine learning • Solid understanding of machine learning algorithms, feature engineering and model evaluation and validation • Familiarity with: real-world data pipelines and data quality challenges; cloud environments (Azure, AWS, or GCP) • Knowledge of software engineering best practices (version control, reproducibility, testing) Nice to Have • Exposure to Generative AI / LLM-based solutions • Experience with APIs, microservices, or ML deployment patterns • Experience in insurance, banking, or other regulated environments