Earthquake Engineer

We help the world see new possibilities and inspire change for better tomorrows. Our analytic solutions bridge content, data, and analytics to help business, people, and society become stronger, more resilient, and sustainable.

As an Earthquake Engineer on our team, you’ll play a crucial role in developing and enhancing the damage estimation component of Verisk Earthquake models. These models cover various regions worldwide and address earthquake related hazards of ground shaking, liquefaction, landslides, fire-following, sprinkler leakage, and tsunamis. In this role, you’ll focus on assessing how these hazards affect the built environment and societies through physical damage, downtime, and human casualties. You’ll collaborate closely with a diverse team of structural and geotechnical engineers, seismologists, and other specialists to perform deterministic and probabilistic risk assessment. You’ll also have the opportunity to present and explain your findings to both internal stakeholders and external clients.

The evolving nature of research work at Verisk Extreme Event Solution creates unique and challenging problems that spark innovation and growth for Verisk and create opportunities for its employees. To be successful in this role, you should have a strong technical background in earthquake, structural, geotechnical, or civil engineering. We’re looking for someone who is highly motivated, detail-oriented, an excellent team player, and capable of using problem-solving skills to tackle new areas of modeling as they emerge.

This role is an office-based role in our Boston office, which has a flexible hybrid work model.

About the Day to Day Responsibilities of the Role

• Data acquisition (including post-event survey) and analysis to understand building inventory and their vulnerability in regions of interest
• Performing analytical studies on damage observations or synthesized data to develop fragility functions for a variety of assets subjected to earthquake shaking, liquefaction, landslide, tsunami, fire and etc.
• Using data from independent research to assess and validate model components and its overall performance
• Presenting Verisk models to technical and non-technical audiences and provide support to clients and staff as needed
• Authoring technical writing for internal and external publications

• Master with 2+ years of relevant experience or PhD in Earthquake, Structural, Geotechnical, and/or other relevant engineering fields
• Demonstrated capabilities in probabilistic and stochastic risk assessment and modeling, particularly in earthquake engineering
• Familiarity with C++ and data mining skills using tools such as R, Matlab and others
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong organizational and documentation skills
• Experience with GIS applications (e.g., ArcGIS, QGIS, etc.)

For over 50 years, Verisk has been the leading data analytics and technology partner to the global insurance industry by delivering value to our clients through expertise and scale. We empower communities and businesses to make better decisions on risk, faster.

At Verisk, you'll have the chance to use your voice and build a rewarding career that's as unique as you are, with work flexibility and the support, coaching, and training you need to succeed. 

For the eighth consecutive year, Verisk is proudly recognized as a Great Place to Work® for outstanding workplace culture in the US, fourth consecutive year in the UK, Spain, and India, and second consecutive year in Poland.  We value learning, caring and results and make inclusivity and diversity a top priority.  In addition to our Great Place to Work® Certification, we’ve been recognized by The Wall Street Journal as one of the Best-Managed Companies and by Forbes as a World’s Best Employer and Best Employer for Women, testaments to the value we place on workplace culture.

We’re 7,000 people strong.  We relentlessly and ethically pursue innovation. And we are looking for people like you to help us translate big data into big ideas. Join us and create an exceptional experience for yourself and a better tomorrow for future generations.

Verisk Businesses

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Claims Solutions — supports end-to-end claims handling with analytic and automation tools that streamline workflow, improve claims management, and support better customer experiences

Property Estimating Solutions — offers property estimation software and tools for professionals in estimating all phases of building and repair to make day-to-day workflows the most efficient

Extreme Event Solutions — provides risk modeling solutions to help individuals, businesses, and society become more resilient to extreme events.

Specialty Business Solutions — provides an integrated suite of software for full end-to-end management of insurance and reinsurance business, helping companies manage their businesses through efficiency, flexibility, and data governance

Marketing Solutions — delivers data and insights to improve the reach, timing, relevance, and compliance of every consumer engagement

Life Insurance Solutions – offers end-to-end, data insight-driven core capabilities for carriers, distribution, and direct customers across the entire policy lifecycle of life and annuities for both individual and group.

Verisk Maplecroft — provides intelligence on sustainability, resilience, and ESG, helping people, business, and societies become stronger

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