Hybrid Senior Scientist: Hurricane Modeling & Risk

AON PLC; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) plan with employer matching

Employee stock purchase plan

Paid holidays

Job summary

A Senior Scientist - Hurricane Model Developer at Aon plc will contribute to building leading catastrophe models for hurricane risk. The role blends scientific research, advanced analytics, and quantitative modeling to improve hazard representation and client solutions.

Collaborating with scientists, engineers, and product teams, you will deliver robust modeling capabilities, validate results, and communicate findings to technical and non-technical audiences.

Qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in Meteorology, Climate Science, Oceanography, Earth Science, Applied Mathematics, Physics, or related field or equivalent industry experience.
• Experience developing, analyzing, or enhancing catastrophe models, risk models, or related scientific modeling solutions.
• Strong quantitative analysis and problem-solving skills with statistics or computational methods.
• Experience programming in Python, MATLAB, R, or similar languages, including workflows or automation.
• Experience processing large meteorological, geospatial, and insurance datasets.
• Experience conducting scientific research and translating findings into practical modeling applications.
• Clear communication of technical information through reports, docs, and presentations.
• Ability to work collaboratively across teams while managing priorities.

Responsibilities

• Develop and enhance hurricane and tropical cyclone catastrophe models, including stochastic event generation and wind field modeling.
• Build, maintain, and improve model components used to quantify catastrophe risk and losses.
• Prepare, transform, and analyze large meteorological and geospatial datasets for research.
• Develop and optimize automated data processing and forecasting workflows.
• Maintain modeling datasets with governance, documentation, and accessibility.
• Implement data quality controls, validation, and performance testing for model outputs.
• Incorporate climate science research into models to assess future losses.
• Use Python, SQL, and related tools to support analysis and automation.
• Conduct quantitative analyses to identify risk drivers and uncertainty.
• Collaborate across teams to deliver enhancements and research aligned with timelines.
• Document methodologies and results in technical reports.

Skills

Quantitative analysis

Python

MATLAB

R

Data processing

Scientific research

Technical communication

Collaboration

Education

Master's degree or PhD in Meteorology, Climate Science, Oceanography, Earth Science, Applied Mathematics, Physics, or related field

Tools

SQL

ArcGIS

QGIS

Geospatial analysis

Job description

A Senior Scientist - Hurricane Model Developer at Aon plc will contribute to building leading catastrophe models for hurricane risk. The role blends scientific research, advanced analytics, and quantitative modeling to improve hazard representation and client solutions.

Collaborating with scientists, engineers, and product teams, you will deliver robust modeling capabilities, validate results, and communicate findings to technical and non-technical audiences.