Flood Modeler (Contract)
About The Position
Jupiter is the global market leader in analytics for resilience planning and enterprise climate risk management. We are led by pioneers in data, climate, and earth and ocean sciences, as well as technology, risk management, company building, and public policy. Our climate risk modeling solutions save lives and mitigate potentially catastrophic impacts inflicted by hurricanes, floods, heat waves, wildfires, drought, and other extreme weather events on homes, businesses, infrastructure, food and water supplies, and entire economies. Jupiter is also committed to the world community. Through our Jupiter Promise initiative we provide services to under-resourced countries and communities to promote sound decision making while including the potential impacts of climate change. Employees are encouraged to provide their expertise to various programs under the Jupiter Promise initiative. Jupiter is bringing diversity to prepare a diverse planet for our changing climate. Jupiter was founded on the principle that with the right approaches and the right team, we can prepare Earth’s economies to meet the challenges associated with climate change. The world is a diverse place; a diverse workforce in an inclusive environment is essential to meet our goals. We go forward together. Jupiter seeks a highly skilled Flood Modeler (contract), with a specialized focus on development and execution of shallow water flood models to support our high-resolution flood modeling pipelines. The purpose of this role is to develop and deploy complex modeling frameworks to simulate and predict flood risk on commercial cloud platforms. This role will involve deploying algorithms for numerical simulation/prediction of flood risk resulting from rainfall, river flow, and coastal storm surge. This role involves troubleshooting complex algorithms, applying code iteratively to test new settings, contributing to process workflows, and assuring quality of output. This role is a critical piece of the team delivering data that forms the backbone of Jupiter products.
Requirements
- 2-dimensional flood model design and deployment (e.g. HEC-RAS, LISFLOOD, TUFLOW, Telemac, or similar)
- Model parameter optimization
- Model validation and verification
- Geospatial data processing (QGIS, ArcGIS)
- Strong knowledge of Python and experience with libraries such as NumPy, GDAL, Rasterio, Xarray, and Pandas
- Familiarity with software engineering best practices and cloud computing
- Master’s degree in Civil/Environmental Engineering, Coastal Engineering, Water Resources, Fluid Mechanics, Hydrology or related field
- Bachelor's degree plus 3-5 years experience also considered
- Experience modeling channel, coastal and floodplain inundation hydrodynamics
- Experience scaling computational methods for large-scale processing (Docker containers, Kubernetes, AWS EC2, Dask, multiprocessing)
Nice To Haves
- Fortran experience a plus
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute high-resolution, fluvial, pluvial, and coastal flood inundation models.
- Collaborate with science and software engineering teams to integrate solutions into scientific processing workflows and perform quality control assessments.
- Work independently within an interdisciplinary team environment.
