Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Kalepa

$150-230k

Equity range: 0.01% – 0.15%

AWS
Python
Senior level
Remote in US
New York
Kalepa

AI-driven commercial insurance provider

Open for applications

Kalepa

AI-driven commercial insurance provider

21-100 employees

FintechB2BArtificial IntelligenceInsurance

Open for applications

$150-230k

Equity range: 0.01% – 0.15%

AWS
Python
Senior level
Remote in US
New York

21-100 employees

FintechB2BArtificial IntelligenceInsurance

Company mission

Kalepa's mission is to leverage its human-AI commercial insurance platform to help identify the true risks of businesses and find the insurance coverage that they need.

Role

Who you are

  • You have 5+ years of experience in engineering and data science
  • You love to hustle: finding ways to get things done, destroying obstacles, and never taking no for an answer. The words “it can’t be done” don’t exist in your vocabulary
  • You have in-depth understanding of applied machine learning algorithms, especially NLP, and statistics
  • You are experienced in Python and its major data science libraries, and have deployed models and algorithms in production
  • You are comfortable with data science as well as with the engineering required to bring your models to production
  • You are excited about using a wide set of technologies, ultimately focused on finding the right tool for the job
  • You value open, frank, and respectful communication

Desirable

  • You have experience with AWS
  • You have hands-on experience with data analytics and data engineering

What the job involves

  • As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer you will lead the framing, development, and deployment at scale of machine learning models to understand the risk of various classes of businesses. You will be turning vast amounts of structured and unstructured data from many sources (web data, geolocation, satellite imaging, etc.) into novel insights about behavior and risk

Otta's take

Theo Margolius headshot

Theo Margolius

COO of Otta

Insurance products that are underwritten at the Efficient Frontier are essential for businesses to mitigate financial risk, but one-size-fits-all approaches to insurance results in many coverage plans being unfairly priced. The reason for this is that whilst businesses each present their own unique set of hazards, identifying them for each company is an incredibly lengthy process for human underwriters.

Kalepa leverages human-interrupted artificial intelligence to identify the true hazards of a business through a data-driven approach and provide insurance that is priced accordingly. The company claims that it reduces the time that insurance providers take to provide quotes by over 40% and helps businesses save over $15M in losses, whilst also improving coverage uptake for insurance providers.

Whilst the commercial insurance sector is certainly oversaturated, Kalepa stands out by providing its AI-driven underwriting platform to insurance providers, helping them compete through faster quotes and lower prices. In addition to its underwriting platform, the company also provides its solutions in the form of embeddable APIs, and recently formed a new MGA that will underwrite excess casualty risks using Everspan paper.

Insights

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

11% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Company benefits

  • Very aggressive bonus structure, designed to reward exceptional performance
  • Significant equity options package
  • Work with an ambitious, smart, global, and fun team to transform a $1T global industry
  • Excellent benefits: 100% covered medical, 100% covered vision and dental, very generous PTO, and others
  • Global team offsites

Company values

  • Customer Focus - We are laser focused on delivering Efficient Frontier Insurance and addressing the challenges of businesses and the carriers, brokers, and technology platforms which serve them. When our customers win, we win
  • Hustle and Grit - Obstacles? Climb over them, around them, under them, through them, or simply eliminate them. With tenacity and perseverance, we can make the impossible a reality
  • Transparency - We are direct. We know that clear and constant feedback is essential to improvement. The only way to the truth is for everyone to advance their ideas
  • Meritocracy - Results speak volumes. Consistent excellence is key to our success as individuals and as Kalepa. We recognize, encourage, and reward merit often and with conviction
  • Experimentation - The scientific method is in our DNA. We drive more value and increase impact every time we iterate. We balance data-driven ideas with accountability

Company HQ

Flatiron District, New York, NY

Founders

Vice President of Applied Predictive Technologies from 2010 to 2016. Experience working in Strategy and Measurement for Facebook.

Vice President of Sales for Applied Predictive Technologies from 2009 to 2015. Vice President of Sales for Mastercard from 2015 to 2018.

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