One Concern
Menlo Park
51-200 employees
We're advancing science and technology to make disasters less disastrous.
Data Science Intern
Data Science Intern
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About One Concern
One Concern brings disaster science together with machine learning for better decision-making. We quantify resilience from catastrophic perils, empowering leaders to measure, mitigate, and transfer risk. We believe that by pioneering cutting-edge science, we can make disasters less disastrous and, ultimately, build planetary-scale resilience.
The Role
One Concern is growing rapidly, and we are looking for a passionate, mission-driven Data Science Intern to join our team. In this role, you’ll work with our data science team to build global-scale resilience models. This is a full-time internship for a period of two to three months with the possibility of converting to full-time employment.
What You’ll Do
- Collaborate with an interdisciplinary team of software engineers and data scientists on cross-functional projects, interpreting data, and translating into actionable insights.
- Assess the potential usefulness and validity of new approaches and data sources.
- Build a global-scale resilience model to predict the societal and economic impact and recovery of the built environment against disasters
- Build and improve existing resilience prediction models.
- Work with and support domain experts and data scientists in different hazard products.
- Demonstrate up-to-date modeling skills (ML/statistical) and apply this to the development, execution, and improvement of action plans.
Qualifications & Experience
- Pursuing Ph. D. or M.S. in civil engineering, computer science, operation research, atmospheric sciences, statistics, mathematics, or related field.
- Background in statistics, probability theory, machine learning and quantitative analytics (coursework or experiences)
- Domain knowledge of natural disasters and/or risk modeling
- Proficiency in Python
Nice to Haves
- Experience in the assessment of climate risks
- Experience in community resilience modeling
- Experience in large scale simulations
- Experience in catastrophe risk modeling
- Publication record
Compensation will be competitive with market for this position. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, natural origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
This job is no longer open