Earthquake Fire-Following Modeling Engineer

Company Description

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Job Description

Extreme Event Solutions, a Verisk business, is the scientific leader and most respected provider of risk modeling software and consulting services. EES founded the catastrophe modeling industry in 1987 and today models the risk from natural catastrophes, terrorism, and pandemic outbreaks in 90 countries. EES offers the opportunity to work with advanced technologies, global clients, and hundreds of the most innovative, talented minds in the industry.

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
• Data acquisition (including post-event survey) and analysis to understand fire ignition, spreading, suppression among different built environment such as residential, commercial, industrial and infrastructural areas
• Use data from independent research to assess and validate model components and its overall performance
• 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

Qualifications

• Master with 3-4 years of relevant experience or PhD in Earthquake, Structural, Geotechnical, and/or other relevant engineering fields 
• Demonstrated capabilities in Cellular Automata and Fire-Following simulation or relevance applicable to fire following simulation
• Experience of probabilistic and stochastic risk assessment and modeling
• Familiarity with Fortran/ C++ and data mining tools such as R, Matlab and others
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong organizational and documentation skills
• Experience with GIS applications (e.g., ArcGIS, QGIS, etc.)

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Additional Information

In 2022, Verisk received Great Place to Work® Certification for our outstanding workplace culture for the sixth year in a row and second-time certification in the UK, Spain, and India. We’re also one of the 38 companies on the UK’s Best Workplaces™ list and one of 18 companies on Spain’s Best Workplaces™ list.

For over fifty years and through innovation, interpretation, and professional insight, Verisk has replaced uncertainty with precision to unlock opportunities that deliver significant and demonstrable impact. From our historic roots in risk assessment, we’ve grown to provide analytic insights that help transform industries focused on some of the world’s most critical areas. Today, the insurance industry relies on Verisk to be, and to make the world, more productive, resilient, and sustainable.

Verisk works in collaboration with our customers and at the intersection of people, data, and advanced technologies. Through proprietary platformed analytics, advanced modeling, and interpretation, we deliver immediate and sustained value to our customers and through them, to the individuals and societies they serve, with greater speed, precision, and scale.

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