FM Research Graduate Internship 2025 Climate Risk and Resilience - Urban Hydrology

FM Global • Norwood, MA

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About The Position

Overview FM is a leading property insurer of the world's largest businesses, providing more than one-third of FORTUNE 1000-size companies with engineering-based risk management and property insurance solutions. FM helps clients maintain continuity in their business operations by drawing upon state-of-the-art loss-prevention engineering and research; risk management skills and support services; tailored risk transfer capabilities; and superior financial strength. To do so, we rely on a dynamic, culturally diverse group of employees, working in more than 100 countries, in a variety of challenging roles.

Requirements

• Graduate students with good academic standing for graduation.
• Experience with flood model development and evaluation.
• Strong GIS skills (e.g., ArcGIS, QGIS, GDAL) and analytical skills.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as MATLAB, R, and Python.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Nice To Haves

• Comfortable writing shell scripts and using APIs to automate workflows.
• Comfortable in Microsoft Windows and Linux environments.
• Experience in machine learning.

Responsibilities

• Work alongside a unique group of scientists to protect the value of FM clients' businesses by developing methods to identify hazards, assess risk, and produce loss prevention solutions that are efficient and cost-effective.
• Build hydraulic models to simulate how flooding spreads across the landscape during past storm events and extreme scenarios defined by flood frequency analysis.
• Apply methods to estimate the geometry of open channels and stormwater systems to allow more scalable and reliable production urban flood hydraulic models.

Benefits

• Temporary relocation support provided for selected qualified candidate.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern
• Industry: Insurance Carriers and Related Activities
• Education Level: Master's degree