Flood Risk Modeling & AI/ML Analyst

Moody's Corporation; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Moody's Corporation seeks a highly qualified researcher to join the Model Development team in London. You will develop and validate inland flood catastrophe models, applying ML/AI to improve risk quantification and decision support for clients worldwide.

The role emphasizes rigorous calibration, scalable workflows, and collaboration with multidisciplinary teams. You will contribute to cutting-edge research across flood, climate, and hydraulic modeling, while communicating insights to clients and

Qualifications

• PhD or MSc with strong quantitative background in the listed fields.
• Experience applying ML/DL to geoscience or climate data.
• Strong communication and cross-disciplinary collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and validate inland flood catastrophe models for global risk assessment.
• Build large-scale flood components: stochastic rainfall, runoff, routing, and inundation.
• Calibrate models using datasets and benchmark studies to improve reliability.
• Analyze flood footprints and loss patterns with stats and geospatial tools.
• Explore AI/ML methods for surrogate modeling and workflow automation.
• Maintain reproducible workflows and code repositories with modern practices.
• Collaborate with scientists and engineers to advance model development.
• Present findings to internal and external stakeholders through reports and talks.

Skills

Hydrology & hydraulics

Climate science

Applied mathematics

Data science

Computer science

ML fundamentals

Python programming

Geospatial analysis

HPC & GPUs

AI risk & ethics

Education

PhD in Hydrology/Hydraulics/Climate Science/Data Science/CS or related

MSc with strong research or industry experience

Tools

PyTorch

R

C/C++

Fortran

CUDA

Bash

Job description

Moody's Corporation seeks a highly qualified researcher to join the Model Development team in London. You will develop and validate inland flood catastrophe models, applying ML/AI to improve risk quantification and decision support for clients worldwide.

The role emphasizes rigorous calibration, scalable workflows, and collaboration with multidisciplinary teams. You will contribute to cutting-edge research across flood, climate, and hydraulic modeling, while communicating insights to clients and