Senior Research Engineer I ( Hydrology / Hydraulics)

Key Skills

Algorithms, ArcGIS, C Programming, C# Programming, C++, Effective communication skills, GIS, Machine learning techniques, MATLAB Programming, Presentation skills, Project management, Python Programming, R Programming, SQL

Job Description

Verisk EES is a leading catastrophe modeler providing risk assessment tools to the insurance and reinsurance companies. Our models simulate occurrences of natural perils over countries and even continents and for thousands of years under the current climate conditions. This is necessary to account for the simultaneous individual damages and the estimate of the aggregate economic losses and their distributions for arbitrary collections of individual properties (portfolios) the number of which usually counts to millions.

Providing flood modeling solutions at such spatial and temporal scales is very unusual and challenging task requiring significant effort, strong knowledge of hydrology, hydraulics and statistics, and a good set of programming skills. However, your effort will be paid off by a very reasonable salary and excellent benefits and by the fact that hundreds of people will use the result of your work. Your innovative thinking as researcher and model developer will be very highly appreciated and participation in scientific conferences and publications in peer reviewed journals encouraged.

The main responsibility at the Senior Research Engineer position will be to build off the success of our recently released Inland Flood Models for US, Italy, Europe, Canada, UK and Ireland and South Korea and we are expanding into Pan Europe and Southeast Asia. You will work with meteorologists, climate scientists, engineers, software professionals, statisticians, and actuaries to incorporate the latest flood modeling technologies into cutting-edge flood risk assessment software tools. Your contributions will help provide our clients with tools and data upon which they make informed decisions about flood risk.

• Understand the requirements, design and implement the components of the hydrologic and hydraulic models
• Develop large scale flood maps based on geomorphological principles

Education Qualification:

• PhD or Master’s in Water Resources Engineering in Hydrology / Hydraulics or related fields.

Must-Have skills:

Total Experience: 4+ years

• Strong fundamentals in stochastic and catchment hydrology and Open Channel Flow
• Ability to gather, understand, and critically analyze relevant hydrological and geophysical data from all available sources
• Ability to work with hydrologic models in a probabilistic framework (Monte-Carlo simulations)
• Knowledge in computational hydrodynamics, including numerically solving PDEs
• Experience in Climate Change Analytics
• Experience in working with Machine Learning Algorithms
• Ability to achieve goals and meet deadlines while working on multiple tasks.

Ability to work independently with less supervision:

• Possess a positive attitude and ability to multi-task, stay organized in a dynamic team work environment
• Communication, presentation and report writing skills
• Good Experience in working with GIS applications preferably ARCGIS
• Advanced level skills in R statistical language, Python, SQL or MATLAB
• Experience in Visual Studio to debug C++/C# codes.

Desirable Skill Set Required:

• Experience in hurricane, coastal and storm surge modeling
• Project management experience.

Additional Information

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. We’re 9,000 people strong, committed to translating big data into big ideas. We help others see new possibilities and empower certainty into big decisions that impact individuals and societies. And we relentlessly and ethically pursue innovation to help move our customers, and the world, toward better tomorrows.