Job ID: 5712
Job date: 2016-07-01
End Date:
Company : New York Life Insurance Co Country : Role : Research Scientist
Job date: 2016-07-01
End Date:
Company : New York Life Insurance Co Country : Role : Research Scientist
Job Description:
New York Life Insurance Company (“New York Life”) is the largest mutual life insurance company in the United States*. Founded in 1845, New York Life is headquartered in New York City, and is one of the most financially strong and highly capitalized insurers in the business. At year end 2013 New York Life had a total surplus of $21.141 billion and holds the highest possible financial strength ratings currently awarded to any life insurer from all four of the major ratings agencies: A.M. Best, A++; Fitch AAA; Moody’s Aaa ; Standard & Poor’s AA+. (Source: Individual Third Party Ratings Report as of 6/18/14)
Financial strength, integrity and humanity—the values upon which New York Life was founded—have guided the company’s decisions and actions for nearly 170 years.
The Advanced Analytics team is expanding. We are looking for a Data Scientist / Scientist to join the team. The Advanced Analytics team serves as the Center of Excellence for the Company and as such we are exposed to a wide variety of different projects ranging from Underwriting, Marketing Analytics, Fraud mitigation to Product development. We also value our research time to further explore topics we are interested in.
You would fit in great with this team if:
You are highly proficient in a language such as R, Python or SAS You have an advanced degree (MS or PhD) in a field such as Statistics, Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, Applied Mathematics, Physics or another field which is highly analytical / quantitative You have experience working with real data and are not intimidated by the size of datasets nor by modeling rare events You are highly familiar with standard modern techniques such as different types of Regression, Boosting, Survival A nalysis, Random Forests, SVMs, Cluster Analytics, MC Simulation, … You have a positive attitude and believe Whatever I don’t know I can learn You enjoy being an active part of all aspects of an analytical project from idea generation, data collection, stratified sampling, feature engineering, variable selection, model development, performance evaluation and testing to implementation and beyond You recognize the importance of a well thought out experimental design You are enthusiastic about learning and using new Big Data tools You love being part of a larger analytics team, but appreciate your own space and independence as well You enjoy collaborating with business partners and realize that everyone brings something valuable to the table and due to our diverse skills, knowledge and experience we can build something fantastic
Your compensation is based on education and experience and we strive to be competitive to attract an amazing set of talented individuals on our team.
We are looking forward to receiving your resume and we welcome hearing from you.
Our office is near Madison Square Park in NYC. We also have an office near Tarrytown, Westchester County if that is your preferred location.
SF: LI-MC1
SF: EF-MC
EOE M/F/D/V
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New York Life Insurance Company (“New York Life”) is the largest mutual life insurance company in the United States*. Founded in 1845, New York Life is headquartered in New York City, and is one of the most financially strong and highly capitalized insurers in the business. At year end 2013 New York Life had a total surplus of $21.141 billion and holds the highest possible financial strength ratings currently awarded to any life insurer from all four of the major ratings agencies: A.M. Best, A++; Fitch AAA; Moody’s Aaa ; Standard & Poor’s AA+. (Source: Individual Third Party Ratings Report as of 6/18/14)
Financial strength, integrity and humanity—the values upon which New York Life was founded—have guided the company’s decisions and actions for nearly 170 years.
The Advanced Analytics team is expanding. We are looking for a Data Scientist / Scientist to join the team. The Advanced Analytics team serves as the Center of Excellence for the Company and as such we are exposed to a wide variety of different projects ranging from Underwriting, Marketing Analytics, Fraud mitigation to Product development. We also value our research time to further explore topics we are interested in.
You would fit in great with this team if:
You are highly proficient in a language such as R, Python or SAS You have an advanced degree (MS or PhD) in a field such as Statistics, Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, Applied Mathematics, Physics or another field which is highly analytical / quantitative You have experience working with real data and are not intimidated by the size of datasets nor by modeling rare events You are highly familiar with standard modern techniques such as different types of Regression, Boosting, Survival A nalysis, Random Forests, SVMs, Cluster Analytics, MC Simulation, … You have a positive attitude and believe Whatever I don’t know I can learn You enjoy being an active part of all aspects of an analytical project from idea generation, data collection, stratified sampling, feature engineering, variable selection, model development, performance evaluation and testing to implementation and beyond You recognize the importance of a well thought out experimental design You are enthusiastic about learning and using new Big Data tools You love being part of a larger analytics team, but appreciate your own space and independence as well You enjoy collaborating with business partners and realize that everyone brings something valuable to the table and due to our diverse skills, knowledge and experience we can build something fantastic
Your compensation is based on education and experience and we strive to be competitive to attract an amazing set of talented individuals on our team.
We are looking forward to receiving your resume and we welcome hearing from you.
Our office is near Madison Square Park in NYC. We also have an office near Tarrytown, Westchester County if that is your preferred location.
SF: LI-MC1
SF: EF-MC
EOE M/F/D/V
If you have difficulty using or interacting with any portions of this Web site due to incompatibility with an Assistive Technology, if you need the information in an alternative format, or if you have suggestions on how we can make this site more accessible, please contact us at: (212) 576-5811.
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