Develop and execute high-resolution flood models, collaborate with interdisciplinary teams, and perform quality control assessments in flood risk modeling.
About Us
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.
What You Will Do
- 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.
Technical Aspects of the Role
- 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
- Fortran experience a plus
What You Will Need to Stand Out
- 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)
When we say Jupiter Intelligence is an Equal Opportunity Employer, we are not just adding a legal addendum. Of course, we do not discriminate:
Jupiter Intelligence is an equal opportunity employer to all, regardless of age, ancestry, color, disability (mental and physical), exercising the right to family care and medical leave, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, political affiliation, race, religious creed, sex (includes pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and related medical conditions), and sexual orientation.
In fact, we celebrate our differences as our strength and actively work to build an inclusive environment for all. If we can do anything to improve your application and interview process, please let us know!
Please also note: Successful candidates must be authorized to work in the US
Top Skills
Aws Ec2
Dask
Docker
Gdal
Hec-Ras
Kubernetes
Lisflood
Numpy
Pandas
Python
Rasterio
Telemac
Tuflow
Xarray
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