Nirvana - Data scientist | Scrabble & Jigsaw
Posted on November 11, 2022
Job Description
<div>Who we are</div>
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Nirvana is on a mission to modernize commercial insurance and enable a safer world. Our<br />
technology platform delivers modern insurance & risk management to not only help our<br />
customers protect their businesses, but actually improve safety for everyone.<br />
To start, we’re transforming the legacy, $750B+ commercial insurance industry through<br />
cutting-edge predictive models using real-time IoT data (~50B connected devices by 2030),<br />
automation to deliver instantaneous quotes & faster underwriting, & proactive, and data-driven<br />
insights to help customers prevent accidents.<br />
Backed by top-tier VCs including General Catalyst & Lightspeed Ventures, Nirvana became the<br />
fastest insurtech EVER to launch in Jan 2022 and crossed >$10M run rate in under 6 months,<br />
more than 2x faster than best-in-class insurtechs. Our leadership team has helped scale<br />
multi-billion dollar companies from scratch including Samsara, Rubrik, Acko & Flexport, and<br />
includes industry veterans from Hiscox, AIG, The Hartford & RLI.<br />
About the role<br />
At Nirvana, we work with heterogeneous datasets and mine predictive signals to accurately<br />
identify risks for businesses. Some of the data we work with includes,</div>
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● 100s of millions of GPS and sensor data points per vehicle, ingested and stored in our<br />
proprietary data platform.<br />
● Safety events like harsh braking, distracted driving, etc computed from sensors in<br />
commercial vehicles.<br />
● High-dimensional datasets containing, among others, decades of vehicle inspection,<br />
crash, and violation data for all commercial vehicles in the US.<br />
As a Data Scientist, you will work closely with our data engineering and insurance teams and<br />
use these large datasets to help build data-driven insurance and safety products in a fast-paced<br />
startup environment. You must enjoy working with large data and finding interesting patterns in<br />
the data through analytics experiments in a methodical and data-driven scientific way.<br />
The insurance / risk business has many unsolved problems where sophisticated use of<br />
information plays a critical role.</div>