Principal Research Scientist - Risk
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What You Will Do:
- 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, and wildfire-related risk.
- Design decision models that quantify the operational and economic consequences of resilience and reliability investments, including asset replacement, vegetation management, and network redesign.
- Quantify the value of data including pole loading analysis, visual inspections, and the installation of new devices and remote sensing capabilities, both empirically and by analytical methods.
Who You Are:
- A PhD in statistics, applied mathematics, physics, computer science, operations research, engineering, or a comparable record of original research and applied technical work.
- Proven track record of independently defining, driving, and executing a substantial research agenda as a senior individual contributor or industry principal, demonstrated through influential publications, patents, or production systems.
- Recognized subject matter expert with deep technical authority and a history of setting research direction without needing direct management oversight.
- Extensive experience in probabilistic modeling, uncertainty quantification, model validation, scientific computing capabilities and decision-making under incomplete information.
- Substantial experience modeling operational systems. Particularly relevant topics include insurance or catastrophe modeling; weather prediction and climate hazard; outages in power systems; and reliability engineering.
What We Offer:
- A highly competitive compensation package including an equity component to ensure you directly benefit from Neara’s sustained success and impact on critical infrastructure.
- The opportunity to work on a cutting-edge, 3D physics-enabled platform used to anticipate the impact of extreme events, reduce infrastructure failure, and direct investment. 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 agenda, identifying preferred methods and working on novel under-specified problems.
- A central role in shaping Neara’s long-term product roadmap, analytical standards and customer advisory services.
- Flexible hours and working arrangements designed to help you do your best work from where you work best.
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About Neara
Australian private software company providing physics-enabled digital twin modeling for utility infrastructure owners.
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