Ask HN: Is anyone here an Insurance Risk Engineer?

6 pointscaspercrf11mo ago2 comments

I was recently laid off and have been considering a career change. I'm 46 and have been in software testing/QA for 20+ years with a BSEE degree. I'm getting burned out on doing the same thing for so long and a friend of a friend was telling me about his job as an Insurance Risk Engineer. It sounds interesting, basically assessing risk of a commercial business for coverage. I think it would be a good fit coming from software QA/Testing where I look for vulnerabilities in code. Does anyone have any insight into the job field? I'm not sure if it's just a fancy name for insurance salesman or if it's more technical then that.

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ompogUe11mo ago

I'm a data engineer for a "very large warranty group".

We manage the pipelines for downstream analytics.

We have combinations of data and actuarial scientists doing this analysis, so those would be good things to look into.

One part that dovetails with your QA experience is there's a lot of work with different reporting systems where the data needs to line up correctly.

Evaluating risk is more open-ended, since it also requires analysis of external data.

Hope this helps a little...

Good Luck!

brudgers11mo ago

Actuarial Science is an ordinary pathway into risk analysis for insurance companies. Good luck.

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