(Apply in 3 Minutes) Senior Data Scientist

Who we are

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.

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.

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.

About the role

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,

• 100s of millions of GPS and sensor data points per vehicle, ingested and stored in our proprietary data platform.
• Safety events like harsh braking, distracted driving, etc computed from sensors in commercial vehicles.
• High-dimensional datasets containing, among others, decades of vehicle inspection, crash, and violation data for all commercial vehicles in the US.

As a Senior 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.

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!

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