Description
We're seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join our Medicare Member Experience data science team. You'll design and deploy agent-based solutions, including Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to improve our Medicare Stars program.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and deploy MCP and agent-based solutions on GCP
- Develop NLP-driven information extraction pipelines
- Build reliable agent pipelines, from input handling to validated outputs
- Evaluate and monitor agent performance in production
- Partner with engineers, domain experts, and stakeholders to deliver production systems
Required Qualifications:
- 3+ years coding Python in a production cloud environment
- 3+ years developing and testing NLP models using PyTorch and Transformers
- Experience deploying LLM-based systems to production with CI/CD
- Experience with agent evaluation and guardrails
- Experience with GPU-mounted containers for development and inference
- Proficiency in SQL and Git
- Strong analytic and communication skills across technical and business audiences
Preferred Qualifications:
- 3+ years using GCP services such as BigQuery, Kubernetes, Vertex AI, and GKE
- Experience building MCP servers
- Experience with agent frameworks such as LangGraph, LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, or ADK
- Experience with LLMOps and MLOps, including monitoring, versioning, and data and model provenance
- Experience deploying local LLMs with vLLM or SGLang
- Experience with CUDA, TensorRT, and TensorRT-LLM for GPU inference optimization
- Experience fine-tuning encoder, decoder, and encoder-decoder models
- Experience hardening container images, including distroless patterns and CVE scanning
- Experience leading AI projects end to end and mentoring junior colleagues
- Advanced degree in data science, statistics, CS, engineering, or a related field
Benefits: This full-time position is eligible for a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional, and financial well-being of colleagues and their families. The benefits for this position include medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other resources, based on eligibility.