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Lead Data Scientist - TelematicsZego · London
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Lead Data Scientist - Telematics

🗓️ Posted 2026-09-16 London Fulltime Hybrid ICT
💰 Salary Not shared 📊 Market 6,250 GBP–8,333 GBP/mo

About the Company

ABOUT ZEGO At Zego, we're on a mission to do the good thing, not the insurance thing. Insurance hasn't changed much in over a century. The way we live, work and travel has. We're building the real-time, AI-driven infrastructure that powers innovative insurance, so good drivers get cover that works the way they actually drive. We're not just updating insurance; We're leading the AI evolution in insurance For us, AI isn't a line on a roadmap or a buzzword on a slide. It's our operating reality, and it's how we build products that back drivers instead of the old insurance playbook. We don't do things slowly, and we don't do bureaucracy. We back high-performance builders who want ownership, early responsibility and the chance to do the most career-defining work of their lives. You'll get the space to try things, the tools to move fast, and the room to see your ideas reach millions of drivers. Do not take our word for it. Read what Zegons say about us on Glassdoor https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Overview/Working-at-Zego-Insurance-EIIE1851459.11,25.htm. If you're ready to build the future of insurance, we're hiring. PURPOSE OF THE ROLE We don't build pricing models, we build the driving intelligence that feeds them. Our mission is fairer insurance, priced on how people drive, not on who they are, and safer roads. The Telematics team turns raw phone sensor data into meaningful signals about how people drive. Using signal processing and machine learning on high-frequency G

Responsibilities

  • ● Work with raw, high-frequency sensor data: GPS, accelerometer, gyroscope, at scale. This isn't warehouse-tabular data: it's noisy, physical, and where the signal actually lives. You'll be processing more than 250k trips per day.
  • ● Research new behavioural features and detection algorithms: read the literature, try ideas, kill the ones that don't survive contact with real data.
  • ● Design and build behavioural features and factors that feed Zego's understanding of driving quality, context, and risk.
  • ● Take ideas from hypothesis to production: prototyping in notebooks, then writing the production-grade Python and SQL that scales.
  • ● Prioritise simple, robust solutions, rule-based when that's enough, ML when it's warranted.
  • ● Lead experiments, validate impact with data, and automate insight generation.
  • ● Collaborate closely with software engineers, product managers, and and actuaries to get features into the pricing path and measure their effect on real policies.
  • ● Translate complex sensor data into clear findings that non-technical stakeholders can act on.
  • ● What You'll need to be successful
  • ● MSc (or integrated MEng/MSc) in a quantitative field: Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, or similar. This is a core role that requires strong engineering foundations.
  • ● Working knowledge of digital signal processing or sensor physics. You can reason about noise, sampling, filtering, and the physical meaning behind a signal, not just its numbers.
  • ● Proven track record delivering data science or data engineering projects into production. You write production-grade code, not just notebooks.
  • ● Strong Python and SQL (we use Snowflake). Comfortable with the scientific Python stack: Polars, Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, and scikit-learn.
  • ● You've designed, built, and maintained data pipelines from scratch: reliable, observable, and scalable.
  • ● Fluent with AI coding assistants as part of daily engineering work. We use Claude Code across the team and expect candidates to be comfortable working with tools of this kind.
  • ● Strong communicator: you translate ambiguous problems into structured, testable ideas, and share insights clearly with technical and non-technical audiences.
  • ● Growth mindset: curious, open to feedback, driven to keep improving.
  • ● You work AI-first. You will use AI daily here, and we mean daily. You do not need to arrive an expert, but you do need to arrive curious, experiment fast, and take ownership of getting good quickly. People who wait to be trained will find this uncomfortable.
  • ● Nice to Have
  • ● Exposure to insurance, mobile data, or behaviour modelling.

Benefits

  • ● Market-competitive salary, benchmarked against your function and reviewed every year.
  • ● Annual performance bonus, linked to company performance and your contribution.
  • ● Share options, a real stake in the company and a share in the future you build
  • ● Private medical insurance.
  • ● Pension, generous holiday, and 1,000 a year to spend on getting to the office or learning something new.
  • ● Cutting-edge systems and tools, so you always have what you need to drive your impact.
  • ● Ready to do the most impactful work of your career We want to hear from you.
  • ● Zego, leading the AI evolution in insurance.
  • ● EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES
  • ● We're an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.