Job Description
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<h2 dir="ltr"><b id="docs-internal-guid-472c0118-7fff-1b61-a122-6ddcbddc11e2">Who we are </b></h2>
<p dir="ltr"><b id="docs-internal-guid-472c0118-7fff-1b61-a122-6ddcbddc11e2">Nirvana is on a mission to modernize commercial insurance and enable a safer world. Our technology platform delivers modern insurance & risk management to not only help our customers protect their businesses, but actually improve safety for everyone.</b></p>
<p dir="ltr"><b id="docs-internal-guid-472c0118-7fff-1b61-a122-6ddcbddc11e2">To start, we’re transforming the legacy, $750B+ commercial insurance industry through cutting-edge predictive models using real-time IoT data (~50B connected devices by 2030), automation to deliver instantaneous quotes & faster underwriting, & proactive, and data-driven insights to help customers prevent accidents.</b></p>
<p dir="ltr"><b id="docs-internal-guid-472c0118-7fff-1b61-a122-6ddcbddc11e2">Backed by top-tier VCs including General Catalyst & Lightspeed Ventures, Nirvana became the fastest insurtech EVER to launch in Jan 2022 and crossed >$10M run rate in under 6 months, more than 2x faster than best-in-class insurtechs. Our leadership team has helped scale multi-billion dollar companies from scratch including Samsara, Rubrik, Acko & Flexport, and includes industry veterans from Hiscox, AIG, The Hartford & RLI.</b></p>
<h2 dir="ltr"><b id="docs-internal-guid-472c0118-7fff-1b61-a122-6ddcbddc11e2">About the role</b></h2>
<p dir="ltr"><b id="docs-internal-guid-472c0118-7fff-1b61-a122-6ddcbddc11e2">At Nirvana, we work with heterogeneous datasets and mine predictive signals to accurately identify risks for businesses. Some of the data we work with includes,</b></p>
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<p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><b id="docs-internal-guid-472c0118-7fff-1b61-a122-6ddcbddc11e2">100s of millions of GPS and sensor data points per vehicle, ingested and stored in our proprietary data platform.</b></p>
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<p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><b id="docs-internal-guid-472c0118-7fff-1b61-a122-6ddcbddc11e2">Safety events like harsh braking, distracted driving, etc computed from sensors in commercial vehicles.</b></p>
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<p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><b id="docs-internal-guid-472c0118-7fff-1b61-a122-6ddcbddc11e2">High-dimensional datasets containing, among others, decades of vehicle inspection, crash, and violation data for all commercial vehicles in the US.</b></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><b id="docs-internal-guid-472c0118-7fff-1b61-a122-6ddcbddc11e2">As a Data Scientist, you will work closely with our data engineering and insurance teams and use these large datasets to help build data-driven insurance and safety products in a fast-paced startup environment. You must enjoy working with large data and finding interesting patterns in the data through analytics experiments in a methodical and data-driven scientific way.</b></p>
<p dir="ltr"><b id="docs-internal-guid-472c0118-7fff-1b61-a122-6ddcbddc11e2">The insurance / risk business has many unsolved problems where sophisticated use of information plays a critical role. Join us in making an impact on the industry!</b></p>
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<p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><b id="docs-internal-guid-472c0118-7fff-1b61-a122-6ddcbddc11e2">Extract actionable insights and recommendations from time series data to help our customers improve their safety</b></p>
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<p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><b id="docs-internal-guid-472c0118-7fff-1b61-a122-6ddcbddc11e2">Work closely with the insurance team to build and validate complex risk models</b></p>
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<p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><b id="docs-internal-guid-472c0118-7fff-1b61-a122-6ddcbddc11e2">Standardizing analysis methodology and building automated frameworks</b></p>
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<p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><b id="docs-internal-guid-472c0118-7fff-1b61-a122-6ddcbddc11e2">Understand data characteristics, prepare and clean large high-dimensional data sets, and define and automate robust data quality measures</b></p>
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<p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><b id="docs-internal-guid-472c0118-7fff-1b61-a122-6ddcbddc11e2">Work in cross functional teams</b></p>
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<p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><b id="docs-internal-guid-472c0118-7fff-1b61-a122-6ddcbddc11e2">Graduate degree in a quantitative or technical discipline and/or 3+ years of applying advanced quantitative techniques to problems in industry</b></p>
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<p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><b id="docs-internal-guid-472c0118-7fff-1b61-a122-6ddcbddc11e2">Strong demonstrable knowledge of topics such as statistical inference, predictive analytics, probability theory, machine learning, etc</b></p>
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<p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><b id="docs-internal-guid-472c0118-7fff-1b61-a122-6ddcbddc11e2">Strong technical (written and verbal) communication, prioritization, and time management skills</b></p>
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<p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><b id="docs-internal-guid-472c0118-7fff-1b61-a122-6ddcbddc11e2">Strong programming skills with experience using modern packages in R and Python</b></p>
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<p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><b id="docs-internal-guid-472c0118-7fff-1b61-a122-6ddcbddc11e2">Demonstrated experience building, validating, and applying statistical machine learning methods to real world problems</b></p>
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<h2 dir="ltr"><b id="docs-internal-guid-472c0118-7fff-1b61-a122-6ddcbddc11e2">What you’ll get from us</b></h2>
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<p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><b id="docs-internal-guid-472c0118-7fff-1b61-a122-6ddcbddc11e2">Competitive compensation & meaningful equity</b></p>
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<p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><b id="docs-internal-guid-472c0118-7fff-1b61-a122-6ddcbddc11e2">Health insurance for you and your family</b></p>
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<p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><b id="docs-internal-guid-472c0118-7fff-1b61-a122-6ddcbddc11e2">Monthly wellness stipend</b></p>
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<p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><b id="docs-internal-guid-472c0118-7fff-1b61-a122-6ddcbddc11e2">Remote equal culture and reimbursement for home office equipment</b></p>
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<p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><b id="docs-internal-guid-472c0118-7fff-1b61-a122-6ddcbddc11e2">A flexible vacation policy and a team that understands building a company is a marathon, not a sprint</b></p>
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<p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><b id="docs-internal-guid-472c0118-7fff-1b61-a122-6ddcbddc11e2">Support for ongoing development outside of work</b></p>
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<p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><b id="docs-internal-guid-472c0118-7fff-1b61-a122-6ddcbddc11e2">A culture that gives you the autonomy you need to do great work, and the transparency you need to make good decisions</b></p>
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