Senior Data Scientist

At Honeycomb, we're not just building technology , we’re reshaping the future of insurance. 

In 2025, Honeycomb  was ranked by Newsweek as one of “America’s Greatest Startup Workplaces,” and Calcalist named it as a “Top 50 Israel startup.” 

How did we earn these honors?

Honeycomb is a rapidly growing global startup, generously backed by top-tier investors and powered by an exceptional team of thinkers, builders, and problem-solvers. Dual-headquartered in Chicago and Tel Aviv (R&D center), and with 5 offices across the U.S., we are reinventing the commercial real estate insurance industry, an industry long overdue for disruption. Just as importantly, we ensure every employee feels deeply connected to our mission and one another.

With over $55B in insured assets, Honeycomb operates across 18 major states, covering 60% of the U.S. population and increasing its coverage.

If you’re looking for a place where innovation is celebrated, culture actually means something, and smart people challenge you to be better every day -  Honeycomb might be exactly what you’ve been looking for.

 About The Role:

We are looking for a Senior Data Scientist to join our automatic decisions group, focusing on tabular data prediction team, which is responsible for building highly reliable systems that power automated decision-making across our product.

In this role, you will design and implement robust models and data-driven systems that directly influence underwriting, risk assessment, and core business workflows. You will champion best practices, drive measurable performance gains, and help shape the architecture of high-scale, production-grade ML systems.

What You’ll Do: 

• Develop and improve tabular data classification models that power core business processes, significantly enhancing automation and operational efficiency.
• Continuously improve algorithmic robustness, accuracy, and stability across diverse real-world data distributions.
• Introduce and enforce best practices in model development, testing, experiment design, and documentation.
• Work closely with cross-functional stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable ML solutions.

Requirements

• Sc. or PhD in Computer Science, Physics, Electrical Engineering, Applied Math, or a related field.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience developing and deploying data science or machine learning solutions, with strong expertise in tabular data modeling (e.g., tree-based models, linear models, ensembling, time-dependent models).
• Experience with production deployment of ML models, including monitoring, CI/CD, data validation, and system reliability.
• Ability to independently initiate, plan, and drive ML projects end-to-end.
• Strong coding skills and familiarity with modern ML tooling and best practices.
• Team player, positive, driven, independent, and a fast learner.
• Familiarity with tabular foundation models and LLMs - advantage 

Why Honeycomb

• Build foundational AI systems in a sector ripe for innovation and modernization
• See your work deployed quickly with immediate customer and business impact
• Collaborate directly with product, engineering, and executive teams—minimal bureaucracy
• High autonomy, fast development cycles, and meaningful equity ownership
• Be part of a mission-driven company redefining what insurance technology can be