Senior Research Engineer, Catastrophe Risk Modeling

Verisk Analytics, Inc.; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Retirement Plan

Disability benefits

Paid Time Off

Job summary

Verisk Analytics, Inc. in Boston seeks a Senior Research Engineer to advance vulnerability models for atmospheric perils worldwide. You will develop, enhance, and support engineering components, quantify perils like wind, hail, and snow, and work with a multidisciplinary team of engineers, meteorologists, and data scientists.

The role requires a Ph.D. or M.S. in Civil Engineering, 2+ years in catastrophe modeling, strong communication, and programming skills (C#, Python or similar).

Qualifications

• Must Haves: Ph.D. or M.S. in Civil Engineering with emphasis in Structural Engineering or Building Sciences.
• 2+ years of Catastrophe Modeling or damage estimation experience.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience in performance-based design, probabilistic and stochastic risk assessment and modeling, and reliability theory as applied to structural engineering.
• Experience with C#, Python, or similar programming languages (e.g., C/C++, R, MATLAB).
• Experience in data analytics, including analyzing, interpreting, and visualizing large datasets to support research and modeling.
• Strong organizational and documentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Acquire, synthesize, and analyze building inventory, insured loss, and claims data across regions worldwide.
• Learn and integrate proprietary Verisk datasets into extreme event models.
• Develop vulnerability functions and monetary loss curves for buildings and infrastructure under hurricane winds, hail, snow, and related hazards.
• Implement research into Verisk’s portfolio risk analysis models and validate probabilistic risk assessments.
• Use GIS tools for data visualization and analysis.
• Perform real-time and post-event building damage assessments and present findings to clients.

Skills

Catastrophe modeling

Communication skills

Probabilistic risk assessment

Reliability theory

Programming languages (C#, Python)

Data analytics

Documentation

Team collaboration

Mathematical/statistical methods

Education

Ph.D. or M.S. in Civil Engineering (Structural/Building Sciences)

Tools

ArcGIS

SQL Server

Job description

Verisk Analytics, Inc. in Boston seeks a Senior Research Engineer to advance vulnerability models for atmospheric perils worldwide. You will develop, enhance, and support engineering components, quantify perils like wind, hail, and snow, and work with a multidisciplinary team of engineers, meteorologists, and data scientists.

The role requires a Ph.D. or M.S. in Civil Engineering, 2+ years in catastrophe modeling, strong communication, and programming skills (C#, Python or similar).