# Principal Research Scientist - Risk at Neara

- Company: Neara
- What the company does: Neara provides a cloud-based software platform that creates physics-enabled digital twins of infrastructure networks, allowing engineering-grade simulation and analysis of assets across an entire network. Backed by Innovation Bay.
- Company website: https://neara.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: New York City
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $180K to $220K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-25
- Apply by: 2026-10-19
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/neara/0bd72521-970d-4b03-9727-80f440dbe35f?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/neara-principal-research-scientist-risk/

## About the role

Contribute to Neara’s applied research function for infrastructure risk and resilience. Establish rigorous standards for risk modeling, uncertainty quantification, and decision-making. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- 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

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