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Senior Data ScientistNearmap • Carlsbad, California, USA
Senior Data Scientist

Senior Data Scientist

Nearmap • Carlsbad, California, USA
15 days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

Preferred Locations : NYC or Southern CA

The Insurance AI team conducts technical work to design develop and support products that use Nearmap and third-party data to derive insurance risk insights. The Senior Data Scientist plays a pivotal role in designing developing and operationalizing advanced risk models that leverage Nearmaps AI data and third-party sources to deliver actionable insurance risk insights. This role bridges cutting-edge technical model development with actuarial applications helping insurance companies integrate Nearmaps AI-driven intelligence into pricing underwriting modeling and regulatory workflows.

As a senior member of the Insurance AI team you will :

Lead modeling initiatives from conception through deployment.

  • Serve as a trusted technical and domain expert for both internal teams and external clients.
  • Drive innovation in how Nearmaps data is applied within insurance products and workflows.
  • Provide strategic actuarial and statistical guidance to ensure models meet both technical rigor and practical business needs.

This role requires the ability to seamlessly transition between in-depth technical work high-level solution design and client-facing consulting with senior insurance stakeholders. As such deep experience working as a data scientist or actuary training and evaluating models in the property casualty (P&C) insurance space is critical.

Key Responsibilities

  • Technical Leadership in Model Development
  • Lead the design development and refinement of insurance risk models using Nearmap AI data and other sources.
  • Conduct exploratory data analysis advanced feature engineering model selection training validation and performance optimization.
  • Guide the integration of geospatial property and external datasets into scalable production-ready solutions.
  • 2. Actuarial & Regulatory Expertise

  • Serve as a senior technical liaison to actuarial data science and pricing teams at insurance companies ensuring successful adoption of Nearmap data in their workflows.
  • Advise on and prepare regulatory filing materials respond to objections and ensure models meet compliance standards for property / casualty insurance.
  • 3. Strategic Data Asset Development

  • Spearhead efforts to grow and optimize Nearmaps proprietary policy and loss database for product and modeling innovation.
  • 4. Client Engagement & Solution Integration

  • Lead high-impact retro tests validation studies and custom analyses for top-tier insurance clients.
  • Translate complex technical results into strategic business recommendations for senior decision-makers.
  • 5. Thought Leadership & Mentorship

  • Mentor junior team members on best practices in modeling data analysis and insurance-specific applications.
  • Qualifications : Key Requirements

  • 5 years of practical experience in property / casualty insurance in a data science or actuarial role with a strong track record of delivering models and analytics in production environments.
  • Proven leadership in complex modeling projects from ideation through deployment.
  • Experience advising senior insurance stakeholders and influencing strategic decision-making.
  • Required :

  • Domain Knowledge : Deep expertise in property / casualty insurance pricing rating and regulatory requirements; mastery of actuarial data and modeling (Tweedie distributed data GLMs GBMs) and advanced statistical concepts (e.g. variable selection overfitting fairness testing Gini lift AUC cross-validation sensitivity analysis).
  • Data Science : Advanced capability in feature engineering model validation uncertainty quantification and statistical testing; fluency in SQL for data extraction / manipulation.
  • Programming : Expert in Python (NumPy Pandas Scikit-learn Matplotlib) and git-based workflows.
  • Communication : Exceptional ability to translate technical findings into actionable business insights for executive-level audiences.
  • Data / ML Engineering : Familiarity with scalable pipelines MLOps practices and production deployments
  • Highly Desirable :

  • Experience with geospatial and imagery data (GeoPandas or similar).
  • Prior experience integrating AI-derived datasets into insurer pricing and underwriting workflows.
  • Additional Information :

    Some of our benefits

    Nearmap takes a holistic approach to our employees emotional physical and financial wellness. Some of our current benefits include :

  • Quarterly wellbeing day off - Four additional days off a year as your YOU days
  • Company-sponsored volunteering days to give back.
  • Generous parental leave policies for growing families.
  • Access to LinkedIn Learning for continuous growth.
  • Discounted Health Insurance plans.
  • Monthly technology allowance.
  • Annual flu vaccinations and skin checks.
  • Hybrid flexibility
  • A Nearmap subscription (naturally!).
  • Working at Nearmap

    We move fast and work smart; often wearing multiple hats. We adapted to remote working with ease and are continually looking at ways to improve. Were proud of our inclusive supportive culture and maintain a safe environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging and can be themselves.

    If you can see yourself working at Nearmap and feel you have the right level of experience we invite you to get in touch.

    Watch some of our videos and find out more about what a day in the life at Nearmap looks like.

    hear an interview with Brett Tully Director of AI Output Systems on the Super Data Science podcast click this link :   podcast :   the product documentation for Nearmap AI : but we got this! Nearmap does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies and search firms. Please do not email or send unsolicited resumes to any Nearmap employee location or address. Nearmap is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

    Remote Work : Yes

    Employment Type : Full-time

    Key Skills

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    Experience : years

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