Researcher - Atmospheric Perils

Researcher - Atmospheric Perils

• Full-time

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Job Description

This is a permanent position, and the ideal candidate would be willing to work 100% for at least two years before requesting any decrease in working hours to a minimum of 80%.

The position is in the Catastrophe Research team, which is in Zürich, and is part of the larger Catastrophe Underwriting Office, which is responsible for catastrophe risk modeling, research and portfolio analytics.

The Research team is comprised of a group of highly skilled applied scientists, whose expertise is utilized throughout the company to support risk transfer decisions based on a robust scientifically based view of catastrophe risk.

Key responsibilities:

Your core responsibility is to develop and support PartnerRe’s view of catastrophe risk by providing a broad range of expertise in atmospheric perils risk modeling.

Your initial focus will be on quantifying the risk-of-loss from atmospheric perils such as hail, tornado, flood and wildfire and later to also include wind (from extra-tropical and tropical cyclones).

In more detail your main tasks are to:

• Contribute to the research, development and maintenance of PartnerRe’s proprietary atmospheric perils model suite with emphasis on the hazard related components.
• Acquire expertise on third party atmospheric peril models and perform evaluation and validation studies
• Develop and communicate a view of risk-of-loss for business purposes
• Quantify vulnerability related aspects of our view of risk developments. Acquire a practical understanding of the engineering theory and practice to differentiate relative vulnerability of commonly insured buildings and their contents
• Participate in loss estimation and reporting on significant loss causing events
• Develop analysis tools to facilitate end-user needs and efficiency of processes. Collaborate, develop and share code with the team.
• Apply scientific knowledge to the business-decision process and provide research, modeling and training support to end-users in underwriting.

Technical skills:

• Experience in: atmospheric perils risk assessment and / or vulnerability and building stock assessment, and / or catastrophe modelling and model development and / or (re)insurance industry would be an advantage.
• A quantitative and analysis-based approach to problem solving with extensive programming experience (in R, Python or a similar language).

Soft skills:

• Ability to work well in a team and to contribute towards common goals.
• Pro-active, solution oriented with a high level of self-initiative.
• Good communication skills with the ability to present complex technical topics to non-technical audiences.
• Proficient (written and verbal) in English, other languages are a plus.

About you:

• You are a passionate scientist or engineer wanting to apply your deep scientific and technical knowledge to the problem of making risk transfer decisions.
• Quantifying the impact of natural catastrophes on our business is by its nature uncertain, but you enjoy the challenge of balancing these uncertainties, using your creative skills and science where it can make a difference to the task at hand.
• Due to legal restrictions, we can only consider candidates who are either EU or Swiss citizens, or otherwise entitled to work in Switzerland
• The ideal candidate would be willing to work 100% for at least two years in this position

Qualifications

Education:

• A PhD or a Master’s degree plus equivalent scientific experience, in the field of meteorology or climatology, hydrology, or a related discipline.

Additional Information

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Thank you,

PartnerRe Hiring Team