Senior Scientist I

Verisk Analytics • Boston, MA

402d

About The Position

The Climate Statistics Team at Verisk is seeking a climate scientist or climate-oriented statistician to contribute to the development of catastrophe models and products that address risk estimation in a changing climate. This role involves creative problem-solving, analysis, and communication at the intersection of extreme weather, climate change, and risk. The successful candidate will engage in data analysis, statistical modeling, and interpretation of climatic signals to improve model-building for the (re)insurance sector, ultimately aiding in better-informed decision-making to enhance social resilience against climate change.

Requirements

• Doctoral degree in Climate Science or Statistics, with demonstrated interest and experience in the other.
• Skills in data analysis, including ability and comfort in handling and intercomparing gridded climate model output data, as well as sparse local observations with heterogeneity in space, time, and quality.
• Strong interest in reviewing, understanding, and explaining climatic change across a range of phenomena and regions.
• A love for coding and reproducible workflows.
• Interest in interfacing and collaborating closely with a range of domain-area physical scientists and statisticians within modeling teams.
• Excellent communication in both technical and non-technical contexts, and formal presentations and informal discussions.
• Ability to create compelling data visualization to tell a story.
• Current knowledge of CMIP models and scenarios.
• Willingness and confidence to provide climate science leadership and guidance to team members.

Nice To Haves

• Experience blending physical information with statistics to account for uncertainties in model and data.
• Fluency with coding in R, and experience with R package development.
• Experience in collaborative coding under version control (e.g., git).
• Experience with media interviews.
• Expertise in the area of formal detection and attribution methodologies.
• Proficiency in shell scripting and cluster computing.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to data analysis, physical interpretation, documentation, and statistical modeling of climatic signals, trends, and nonstationarities in atmospheric perils.
• Perform literature review and synthesis related to climatology and impacts of changing background environments on various perils.
• Help interpret unfolding catastrophic events in the context of climatic variability and change.
• Contribute reproducible analysis and analytic tools to the Climate Statistics code bases.
• Help formulate answers to client questions related to climatic aspects of Verisk Extreme Event Solution's atmospheric peril models.
• Act as a soundboard for teams building out models aiming for consistency with current climate state and climate-change projected extensions of model products.

Benefits

• Flexible work environment
• Support for ongoing education and skill development
• Health insurance coverage
• Paid holidays
• Diversity and inclusion programs
• Employee discounts
• Professional development opportunities

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees