What are the responsibilities and job description for the Machine Learner position at TransRe?
We have the following job opportunity in our New York City office:
Description
This role will be part of our Applied Data Team and will be responsible for providing Machine Learning Engineering support. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Constructing machine learning models including data collection, normalization, and standardization, data pipeline construction, model selection and hyperparameter tuning, working ml systems that can add new data into ml model
- Creating apps to present ml models and host them in the cloud or locally
- Creating pipelines to query and retrieve and update data for existing applications to keep them updated
- Supervising the scaling and management of the machine learning modeling ecosystem
- Finding orthogonal data sets to supplement models and increase alpha
- Staying abreast of new technology and machine learning methodologies and implementing them into the model building architecture
- Working alongside (re)insurance domain experts to improve predictive aspects of their lines of business
Requirements
- 3 years of demonstrative excellence in building, scaling, and productizing machine learning models
- Experience working with sparse, high dimensional, and time series data
- Python ml stack
- Work with tabular data
- Boosting and bagging algorithms
- Understanding of LLM architectures including encoders, decoders and transformers
- Experience dealing with imbalanced classes
- ML Optimization Techniques
- Ensemble Stacking and Meta Learners
- Classification and Regression Metrics
- Regularization Methods
- Version Control
- Quant trading experience welcome but not required
- Kaggle ranking of expert or higher a plus
Work Schedule
TransRe is supportive of an agile work schedule, which may differ based on individual roles, your local office’s practices and preferences marketplace trends, and TransRe’s business objectives. This position is eligible for a hybrid work schedule with 3 days in the office per week, with the remainder of the week remote.
Compensation
In addition to base salary, for this position, TransRe offers a comprehensive benefits package, paid time off, and incentive pay opportunity. The anticipated annual base salary range in New York for this position, exclusive of benefits, paid time off, and incentive pay opportunity is $100,000 to $125,000. This range is an estimate and the actual base salary offered for this position will be determined based on certain factors, including the applicant’s specific skill set and level of experience.
Salary : $100,000 - $125,000
