Earthquake Fire-Following Modeling Engineer
- Full-time
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About the Role
Verisk Extreme Event Solutions (previously AIR Worldwide), a member of Verisk Analytics, is the scientific leader and most respected provider of risk modeling software and consulting services. Verisk Extreme Event Solutions founded the catastrophe modeling industry in 1987 and today models the risk from natural catastrophes, terrorism, and pandemic outbreaks in 90 countries. Verisk Extreme Event Solutions offers the opportunity to work with advanced technologies, global clients, and hundreds of the most innovative, talented minds in the industry. This role is based in our Boston location which offers a flexible hybrid work model.
As an earthquake fire-following modeling engineer, the primary responsibility will be studying how fires could start, spread, and be suppressed after an earthquake and their impact on built environment and human beings. The outcome of the research will be translated to estimate financial losses to large insurance portfolios due to property damage and human casualty. The candidate will work closely with a team of specialists to perform probabilistic risk assessment by earthquake fire-following, and present and explain results to technical and non-technical audiences including VERISK clients and government officials.
A successful candidate should have a strong technical background in science, engineering, or mathematics, have passion and desire to learn, and is expected to be a highly motivated, detail oriented, well organized, self-directed, and excellent team player. As a researcher at VERISK, the nature of our work varies from month to month and year to year, and you will have constant opportunities to learn and grow expertise in new areas.
About the Day-to-Day Responsibilities of the Role
- Improve earthquake fire-following modeling to reproduce reality
- Run large-scale simulations on AWS and manage cloud-based computational resources efficiently
- Data acquisition (including post-event survey) and analysis to understand fire ignition, spreading, suppression among different built environments such as residential, commercial, industrial and infrastructural areas
- Process simulation outputs and perform validation analyses against experimental and historical observations
- Present model to technical and non-technical audiences and provide support to clients and staff as needed
- Author technical writing for internal and external publications
Minimum Requirements:
- MS with 2+ years of relevant experience or PhD in Earthquake engineering and fire following modeling
- Demonstrated capabilities in Cellular Automata simulation or relevance applicable to fire following simulation
- Experience of probabilistic and stochastic risk assessment and modeling
- Proficiency in C++ and data mining tools such as Python, R, Matlab and others
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong organizational and documentation skills
- Experience with GIS applications (e.g., ArcGIS, QGIS, etc.)
Verisk Analytics is an equal opportunity employer. All members of the Verisk Analytics family of companies are equal opportunity employers. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, veteran's status, age or disability. Verisk’s minimum hiring age is 18 except in countries with a higher age limit subject to applicable law.
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