Senior Engineer San Ramon, CA

Salary Range: $151,000.00 To $170,000.00 Annually Employer: Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance Company Job Duties: Conduct research and provide engineering guidance and leadership for the development of internal views of modeled and non-modeled risks. Prepare detailed site-specific risk assessments. Conduct engineering analyses and site inspections. Evaluate the structural vulnerability components of vendor and other CAT models and platforms. Develop internal tools and models to facilitate account underwriting decision-making. Manage less experienced engineers. Specific duties include: Evaluate catastrophe risk of property assets for current and prospective accounts from a site-specific, engineering-based viewpoint, including assessing exposure information, reviewing hazard metrics, developing custom damageability functions using explicit advanced civil and structural analyses, and producing probabilistic loss estimates. Contribute to and lead the development of an internal view of catastrophe risk for buildings and other structures through literature review, probabilistic hazard analysis, advanced civil and structural engineering analysis, claims and damage data evaluations, and other independent research tasks. Critically evaluate vendor and open-source catastrophe models (e.g., Verisk, SP3, GEM, and others) to determine applicability to specific accounts, regions, and perils. Communicate risk evaluation and risk and model development results to both internal and external stakeholders. Serve as an advisor to newer, less experienced engineers, overseeing their work product and mentoring them for professional growth. Position Requirements: Ph.D. degree (or foreign equivalent) in Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, or a related field. Alternatively, a Master’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, or a related field with three years of relevant experience in Civil Engineering or Structural Engineering will be accepted. Must possess advanced technical knowledge and skills gained through academic research and/or coursework and/or relevant experience in the following areas: Structural analysis methodologies including probabilistic structural risk evaluation, advanced structural modeling, soil-structure interaction, and finite element methods. Statistical and probabilistic concepts and methodologies. Earthquake engineering and wind engineering concepts. U.S. and International structural design guidelines and practices. Hazard analytics and assessment of earthquake and windstorm perils. Programming in Python, MATLAB, R, C++, SQL. Working knowledge of ArcGIS (or equivalent).

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