# Principal Data Scientist – Machine Learning & AI at Accelerant

- Company: Accelerant
- What the company does: About Accelerant Accelerant is a data-driven risk exchange connecting underwriters of specialty insurance risk with risk capital providers.
- Company website: https://accelerant.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: US Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-07-20
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://ats.rippling.com/accelerant/jobs/ed7eea88-676f-4102-afeb-0385cf968dda
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/accelerant-principal-data-scientist-machine-learning-and-ai/

## About the role

We're looking for a Data Scientist to develop machine learning and AI systems that improve decisions across pricing, underwriting, portfolio management, operations, and claims. You'll work across structured data, text, documents, and external data sources, applying statistical modeling, modern machine learning, AI and agentic workflows to solve challenging real-world problems.

## What they're looking for

- A strong quantitative foundation: statistics, probability, optimisation, or applied mathematics
- Sound modelling judgement - you know what it takes for a model to hold up in the real world, not just on a validation set
- Strong programming skills
- Real willingness to work with LLMs and agentic AI as everyday tools, wherever your background sits today
- Clear communication with both technical and non-technical audiences - you can explain a lift curve to an underwriter and a shrinkage prior to a statistician
- Track record with LLM-powered applications or AI agents, especially if you've done the unglamorous work of proving they perform

Tags: Data Science