Senior Researcher

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $130k - $195k / year

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🧬 Research Scientist

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Pearl

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

11 - 50 employees

Founded 2015

🏠 Real Estate

☁️ SaaS

⚡ Energy

💰 $6.7M Series unknown on 2024-07

Real Estate • SaaS • Energy

Pearl is the national standard for home performance rating. Pearl SCORE™ measures Safety, Comfort, Operations, Resilience, and Energy for single-family homes across the United States, and the company has scored every single-family home in America. Pearl provides a public-facing Pearl app and Pearl SCORE™ reports that let buyers, homeowners, contractors, real estate professionals, and public sector partners evaluate and improve home performance. Pearl is a Certified B Corporation and offers services for homeowners to claim and update their home's performance profile, certification for contractors, a Pearl Network for real estate pros, and public-private partnership programs for residential energy efficiency. The company develops tools to help buy, improve, and sell homes with more confidence and provides third-party certification and market insights.

📋 Description

• Lead development of SCORE algorithms, with primary ownership of the Resilience pillar and support for other SCORE pillars • Track new and emerging industry standards to keep Pearl SCORE aligned with leading research • Track new and emerging home performance and resilience technologies and represent them in Pearl SCORE • Engage with national and international experts to inform SCORE methodology • Support the public programs division in identifying roles for SCORE in resilience, energy, and other programs • Support studies linking home resilience features with natural-disaster outcomes, including physical damage, insurance payouts, and replacement costs • Identify data sources for generating accurate SCOREs at scale, including U.S. census, permit, and insurance data • Author or co-author research papers documenting SCORE methodology and findings • Author or co-author blogs and other materials translating SCORE research for popular and industry audiences • Promote Pearl’s research externally through publications and engagement with experts

🎯 Requirements

• Background in residential resilience research and/or standards • Demonstrated experience developing or maintaining scoring methodologies, algorithms, or technical standards • Strong working knowledge of residential building performance, resilience measures, and related technologies • Experience tracking and interpreting industry standards development, including building codes, resilience ratings, and energy performance standards • Excellent written communication skills • Experience authoring technical research papers and content for general audiences • Ability to engage credibly with external subject matter experts and represent Pearl in professional and academic settings • Advanced degree in a relevant field is preferred, such as building science, environmental science, engineering, resilience/hazard mitigation, or public policy • Published research in residential resilience, home performance, or a related field is preferred • Familiarity with Pearl’s SCORE or comparable home performance scoring systems is preferred • Experience collaborating with data science or modeling teams on algorithm development is preferred • Comfortable working semi-independently, with support and partnerships across the S&R team

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, vision and dental coverage provided at no cost for employees and their families • Option to purchase upgraded coverage at a minimal cost to employee • FSA, HSA, and dependent care accounts • Life insurance coverage • Employer paid cell phone service • 401(k) with employer match up to 4% • Stock options • 15 vacation days during the calendar year, plus holidays • Week between Christmas and New Year’s Day included as holidays • Floating holiday for your birthday • Sick days • Paid parental leave • 100% remote work • Flexible work environment • High autonomy and broad responsibilities • Supportive, collaborative, and inclusive environment