Senior Scientists/ R&D Managers - Global AI Team

  • Full-time
  • Verisk Business: Verisk Analytics

Company Description

With a history of impressive growth, an innovative culture, and offering industry-leading solutions, Verisk Analytics is an amazing place to work and make a difference. In 2018, Forbes magazine named Verisk to its World’s Best Employers list and, in 2017, to its World’s Most Innovative Companies list for the third consecutive year. We also earned the Great Place to Work® Certification for the third consecutive year in recognition of our outstanding workplace culture.

Verisk is a leading data analytics provider serving customers in insurance, energy and specialized markets, and financial services. Using advanced technologies to collect and analyze billions of records, Verisk draws on unique data assets and deep domain expertise to provide first-to-market innovations integrated into customer workflows. We’ve been delivering predictive analytics and decision support solutions to our customers for nearly 50 years, helping them protect people, property, and financial assets. At Verisk, you’ll be part of an organization that’s committed to serving the long-term interests of our stakeholders, including the communities where we operate.

At Verisk, you can build an exciting career with meaningful work; create a positive and lasting impact on the business; and find the support, coaching, and training you need to advance your career. Our culture of innovation means your ideas on how to improve our business will be heard. As key contributors to our success, our team members enjoy working in a business-casual, collaborative environment that offers state-of-the-art resources, advanced technologies, and an excellent benefits package.

Job Description

Verisk | AI combines the energy and focus of a start-up with Verisk’s large and unique data assets and deep domain expertise. It draws on the company’s massive volumes of data to help Verisk businesses create new inventions, technology and products in domains from political risk analysis, to economic forecasting to geospatial data solutions among others.

We’re looking for highly skilled, passionate and experienced candidates for technical, scientific, and managerial leadership roles in our AI team. The candidates are expected to have conducted high-quality R&D as well as have had experience in leading R&D teams in relevant areas. The areas of application are Verisk-wide and hence diverse. They include, but are not limited to, computer vision, document understanding, natural language processing, speech understanding, modeling of large-scale natural and health disasters, political risk analysis etc.

In the R&D leadership role, you’ll be expected to conduct and supervise high-impact and high-quality R&D, internally as well as with our university collaborators; to help our business units build and deliver high quality solutions and services to our business clients; and to help grow the Verisk| AI team as well as its brand in relevant R&D and business communities.

Verisk takes pride in its enriching workplace and has several wellness and community programs providing enriching cultural experiences to its employees such as local volunteer opportunities, organizational seminars, and visits to historical sites.

Qualifications

  • PhD or equivalent degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics or a related discipline
  • Publications in relevant top-tier conferences or journals
  • Recognition by research community (awards, program committees, workshop chairs)
  • Hands-on experience building AI & ML applications and technology
  • 5+ years of experience conducting machine learning research and software development
  • 2+ years of experience managing teams of scientists and engineers
  • Experience hiring, growing and retaining scientists and engineers
  • Demonstrated ability to interact with engineering and product teams and to convert business problems into scalable AI & ML solutions

Additional Information

Verisk Analytics is an equal opportunity employer.

All members of the Verisk Analytics family of companies are equal opportunity employers. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, veteran's status, age or disability.

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