Risk & Resilience Engineer

The role

The Risk & Resilience Engineer will develop custom loss models representing impacts to structures and infrastructure assets globally. This role involves creating models of structure damage, repair time, and indirect impacts using engineering, statistics, and machine learning.

What you will do

• Develop custom loss models representing impacts to structures and infrastructure assets globally
• Create models of structure damage, repair time, and indirect impacts
• Analyze historical loss observational data to improve model accuracy
• Perform statistical analysis to validate loss model predictions and assess model uncertainties
• Conduct background research to inform approaches in quantitative modeling
• Analyze building codes and exposure datasets to identify common construction practices
• Create property level adaptation scenarios

Required qualifications

• Master’s degree with 3 years experience in structural engineering, civil engineering, operation research, or a related field
• Strong background in vulnerability developments, statistics, and/or quantitative analytics
• Hands-on experience in developing risk models for buildings or infrastructure systems using machine-learning models or statistical methods
• Experience working with multi-hazard data, catastrophe models, building level damage data, and construction cost estimation data
• Expertise using scripted languages like Python
• Expertise in a science-based approach with a high degree of concern for reliability, accuracy and reproducibility

Nice to have

• Ph.D.
• Experience in developing scalable and generalized catastrophe risk models
• Strong publication record
• Proficiency with source control platforms such as Git
• Research experience in the latest resilience modeling, technical guidelines, etc.
• ML/AI experience
• Expertise with big data analysis in high performance compute environments, either on premises or on cloud platforms including AWS, GCP, and/or Azure
• Hands on experience in building loss models from scratch

Benefits

• Employee Stock Option Plan
• 401(k) with company match
• Paid time off
• Paid parental leave
• Comprehensive health benefits
• 15 vacation days
• 8 statutory company holidays
• 5 days for winter break office closure
• 10 sick days
• Healthcare monthly premium covered at 100% for employee or a significant contribution for family plans
• Vision and dental benefits with partial employee contribution
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave

About the company

First Street is the standard for Climate Risk Financial Modeling. The company exists to connect climate and financial risk.