Earthquake Fire Modeling Engineer

2 weeks ago


Boston Massachusetts, United States Extreme Event Solutions Full time
About the Role

At Extreme Event Solutions, we are the scientific leaders and most respected providers of risk modeling software and consulting services. Our company has a rich history of innovation, dating back to 1987 when we founded the catastrophe modeling industry. Today, we model the risk from natural catastrophes, terrorism, and pandemic outbreaks in 90 countries.

We offer the opportunity to work with advanced technologies, global clients, and hundreds of the most innovative, talented minds in the industry. This role is based in our Boston location, which offers a flexible hybrid work model.

Job Summary

As an earthquake fire-following modeling engineer, the primary responsibility will be to study how fires could start, spread, and be suppressed after an earthquake and their impact on the 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.

Key Responsibilities
  • Improve earthquake fire-following modeling to reproduce reality
  • Run large-scale simulations on AWS and manage cloud-based computational resources efficiently
  • Data acquisition (including post-event survey) and analysis to understand fire ignition, spreading, suppression among different built environment such as residential, commercial, industrial and infrastructural areas
  • Process simulation outputs and perform validation analyses against experimental and historical observations
  • Present model to technical and non-technical audiences and provide support to clients and staff as needed
  • Author technical writing for internal and external publications
Requirements

A successful candidate should have a strong technical background in science, engineering, or mathematics, have passion and desire to learn, and be a highly motivated, detail-oriented, well-organized, self-directed, and excellent team player. As a researcher at Extreme Event Solutions, 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.



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