Principal Research Scientist - Risk

📋 Description

• Contribute to Neara's applied research function for infrastructure risk and resilience.
• Establish rigorous standards for risk modeling, uncertainty quantification, and decision-making.
• Develop predictive models for equipment damage, vegetation failure, outage likelihood and duration
• Design decision models that quantify the operational and economic consequences of resilience and
• Quantify the value of data including pole loading analysis, visual inspections, and the

🎯 Requirements

• PhD in statistics, applied mathematics, physics, computer science, operations research
• Proven track record of independently defining, driving, and executing a substantial research agenda
• Recognized subject matter expert with deep technical authority and a history of setting research
• Extensive experience in probabilistic modeling, uncertainty quantification, model validation
• Substantial experience modeling operational systems. Particularly relevant topics include insurance

🎁 Benefits

• A highly competitive compensation package including an equity component to ensure you directly
• The opportunity to work on a cutting-edge, 3D physics-enabled platform used to anticipate the
• Access to unique network-scale utility data unavailable in other industrial research settings.
• The opportunity to help develop and build Neara's research modeling function, establishing the
• A central role in shaping Neara's long-term product roadmap, analytical standards and customer
• Flexible hours and working arrangements designed to help you do your best work from where you work