Earthquake Fire-Following Modeling Engineer

11 May 2024

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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 RoleImprove earthquake fire-following modeling to reproduce realityData acquisition (including post-event survey) and analysis to understand fire ignition, spreading, suppression among different built environment such as residential, commercial, industrial and infrastructural areasUse data from independent research to assess and validate model components and its overall performancePresent model to technical and non-technical audiences and provide support to clients and staff as neededAuthor technical writing for internal and external publications

  • ID: #49911296
  • State: Massachusetts Boston 02108 Boston USA
  • City: Boston
  • Salary: USD TBD TBD
  • Job type: Full-time
  • Showed: 2023-05-11
  • Deadline: 2023-07-10
  • Category: Et cetera