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Data Scientist

The future of climate risk management has arrived. We help businesses across the entire financial system build climate resilience.

Arbol

Employee count: 51-200

Salary: 95k-125k USD

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Arbol is a global climate risk coverage platform and FinTech company offering full-service solutions for any business looking to analyze and mitigate exposure to climate risk. Arbol’s products offer parametric coverage which pays out based on objective data triggers rather than subjective assessment of loss. Arbol’s key differentiator versus traditional InsurTech or climate analytics platforms is the complete ecosystem it has built to address climate risk. This ecosystem includes a massive climate data infrastructure, scalable product development, automated, instant pricing using an artificial intelligence underwriter, blockchain-powered operational efficiencies, and non-traditional risk capacity bringing capital from non-insurance sources. By combining all these factors, Arbol brings scale, transparency, and efficiency to parametric coverage.
In this role, you will research, develop, and apply machine learning tools to model and price climate and weather risk. You will work with diverse weather and geospatial datasets covering a suite of phenomena, from traditional weather-station readings of temperature and precipitation, to radar measurements of hail stone sizes, to satellite indices of vegetation content. You will learn how to use our existing catalog of pricing and modeling tools, engage in their improvement and maintenance, and develop new methodologies. We are open to a range of experience levels for this position.

About the Team

The analytics team is responsible for making sense of the terabytes of data Arbol has at its disposal. It forms the connective tissue between more client-facing teams, such as sales, and back-end roles like data engineering. You’ll be joining a small team of data scientists and researchers and will have a unique opportunity to impact many levels of the firm. This is an ideal position for someone interested in building machine learning systems while taking a deep dive into the insurance industry.

What You'll Be Doing

  • Collaborate within the analytics team and across teams to gain expertise Arbol’s data/pricing infrastructure and products
  • Develop and improve models for climate and weather perils such as heat waves, severe convective storms, and tropical cyclones
  • Implement, assess, and execute pricing algorithms for a wide array of weather risks
  • Work with sales and executive teams to perform business-critical analytics

What You'll Need

  • BA in statistics, computer science, mathematics, or related quantitative field
  • Experience programming in Python and familiarity with common data science packages (Pandas, Numpy, scikit-learn)
  • Experience analyzing large datasets
  • Strong problem solving and analytical skills
  • Comfort with statistics (e.g., linear regression, hypothesis testing)
  • Willingness to work and learn in a fast-paced environment

Essential Job Functions & Physical Requirements

Ability to sit for extended periods of time while working at a computer, with or without reasonable accommodation
Ability to use a computer, keyboard, mouse, and standard office equipment (e.g., phone, printer, scanner)
Ability to view a computer screen for prolonged periods, with or without reasonable accommodation
Ability to communicate effectively in person, by phone, and via email
Ability to occasionally stand, walk, bend, and reach within an office environment
Ability to lift and/or move up to 10–15 pounds occasionally (e.g., office supplies, files), with or without reasonable accommodation
Ability to perform repetitive motions, such as typing or data entry
Ability to maintain focus and attention while performing detailed tasks
Interested, but you don’t meet every qualification? Please apply!
Arbol values the perspectives and experience of candidates with non-traditional backgrounds and we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet every requirement.

Accessibility

Arbol is committed to accessibility and inclusivity in the hiring process. As part of this commitment, we strive to provide reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities to enable them to access the hiring process. If you require an accommodation to apply or interview, please contact hr@arbol.io

Benefits

Arbol is proud to offer its full-time employees competitive compensation and equity in a high-growth startup. Our health benefits include comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage, and an optional flexible spending account (FSA) to support your health. We offer a 401(k) match to support your future, and flexible PTO for you to relax and recharge.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Arbol is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected status.
Arbol participates in the E-Verify program to confirm employment eligibility.

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Salary

Salary: 95k-125k USD

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About Arbol

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We bring efficiency, transparency, and scale to climate risk management using data, blockchain and an AI-powered pricing platform.

It starts with data. Ours comes from dClimate

We settle contracts leveraging climate data and models from dClimate, a leading decentralized climate information ecosystem.

We spun out dClimate in early 2021 as a standalone, open-source network that anyone in the world can use to get or share essential information about our planet. The dClimate ecosystem provides data, forecasts, and models on important variables like rainfall, temperature, soil moisture, carbon sequestration, and much more.

We leverage dClimate to retrieve industry-leading, institutional-grade climate data and models sourced from both public and government sources like NOAA, NASA, and the European Space Agency (ESA) as well as industry-leading commercial and private sources for underwriting our parametric coverage products. Everything we do at Arbol is data-driven, which helps us bring scale, transparency, and efficiency to the insurance process while eliminating the usual routine of dealing with mountains of claims paperwork, adjusters, and needless hassles to get paid.

Our risk capacity enables us to write tailored, untraditional solutions that other companies shy away from.

This allows us the agility and speed to rapidly deploy market-leading priced risk solutions for a multitude of products and customizations without having to rely on reinsurers.

We're a global collective of thinkers

Arbol provides clients access to financial climate resilience regardless of their size or location. We were founded in 2018 to combine vast data networks with cutting-edge technologies and risk capital to change the way that climate risk is actively managed throughout our entire financial system. Increasingly frequent and extreme climate events such as hurricanes, droughts, floods, and heatwaves are causing hundreds of billions of dollars in losses annually for businesses and communities.

Only a fraction of these losses are covered by insurance due to antiquated and inefficient processes. As stakeholders around the world begin to think proactively about how to address climate risk across balance sheets and supply chains, our end-to-end risk management ecosystem bringing data, financial products, and risk capital provides solutions for climate challenges across the financial system.

We embrace our unique identities and provide equitable opportunity and rewards for all employees. Inclusive Diversity & Equity is woven into our business and culture.

Integrity

We revere honesty and adhere to high ethical standards to gain the trust and confidence of our customers. We value transparency, encourage disclosing bad news, and welcome disagreement.

Collaboration

We are better together. Collaborating early and often helps us develop the best solutions and leverage employees' collective expertise. We evaluate every option so we can choose the best path forward.

Innovation

We are better together. We leverage our unique strengths and work side-by-side with our customers.

Employee benefits

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Matching 401k

After your 1st year anniversary, we match your contributions up to 6%.

Company retreats

Being remote makes it hard to hang out and get to know one another. So every now and then we take trips just to get together.

Medical, dental, and vision, 99.99% cove

Yes, you read that correctly. We pay 99.99% of your medical, dental, vision plans so you don’t have to + an optional flexible spending account (FSA) to support your health

Paid holidays and vacation

We support all of ‘em. But don’t let that stop you from taking personal time when you need to. We want you at your best. Always. 20 days of PTO for you to relax and recharge.

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Arbol

Company size

51-200 employees

Founded in

2018

Chief executive officer

Siddhartha Jha

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