AIR Worldwide (AIR), a Verisk business, provides risk modeling solutions that make individuals, businesses, and society more resilient to extreme events. In 1987, AIR Worldwide founded the catastrophe modeling industry and today models the risk from natural catastrophes, terrorism, pandemics, casualty catastrophes, and cyber attacks, globally. Insurance, reinsurance, financial, corporate, and government clients rely on AIR’s advanced science, software, and consulting services for catastrophe risk management, insurance-linked securities, site-specific engineering analyses, and agricultural risk management. AIR Worldwide, is headquartered in Boston with additional offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. To learn more about AIR, please visit us at: www.air-worldwide.com. We are proud to be a part of the Verisk family of companies!

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This research engineer position is responsible for developing and supporting the engineering components of AIR’s earthquake and terrorism models that cover multiple regions and include hazards such as ground shaking, liquefaction, landsldue, tsunami, and blast. The engineering components include identifying the impact that these events can have on the built envirinment in terms of physical damage which can result in monetary loss of buildings and contents as well as loss of use (downtime). The candidate will work closely with a team of structural and geotechnical engineers, seismologists, and specialists to perform probabilitic risk assessment for a portfolio of spatially distributed assets. Additionally, a strong candidate should have a diverse background in appying sound engineering principles to solve unique and challenging problems as well as the desire to apply their problem solving and model development skills in new areas as models enter development. The ideal candidate is expected to be a highly motivated, detail oriented, well organized, self-directed, and an excellent collaborator.

Responsibilities (main responsibilities, but not limited to):

• • Acquire relevant data to develop regional risk models
  • Develop fragility functions and monetary loss curves for a variety of assets exposed to earthquake shaking, liquefaction, landslide, tsunami, explosion etc.
  • Synthesize results from independent research into AIR’s risk models
  • Use independently collected data to assess, validate, and QA each model component
  • Provide technical support for AIR’s suite of models to staff and clients
  • Author technical writing for internal and external publications

Qualifications (desired knowledge, skills and abilities):

• • Demonstrated capabilities in probabilistic and stochastic risk assessment and modeling, particularly in earthquake and blast engineering
  • Proficiency in programming (preferably C++) and data mining skills (SQL and/or other statistical analysis software such as R)
  • Experience with GIS applications (e.g, ArcGIS, Qgis, etc.)
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Strong organizational and documentation skills

Requirements:

• • PhD in Earthquake, Structural, Geotechnical, and/or Blast Engineering

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