<h1>Storms Scientist</h1> About usClimate X is a purpose-driven technology company, backed by GV (Google Ventures), Western Technologies (early investors in Meta, Google, Palantir), Commerz Ventures, Pale Blue Dot, Deloitte, and other world-class investors. We’re a wonderfully diverse, growing team with physical offices in London and New York City.Demand for Climate X is growing fast, and we need to build our team! You’ll be at the front of a nascent industry, working as part of a fantastic and diverse team, doing things that you can be proud of. We’re excited to have the opportunity to speak with you during this process. Our missionTo deepen the understanding of our changing planet and inspire meaningful action. What we do<ul><li>We’re helping the world become more resilient to the impacts of physical climate risks (including floods, fires, storms and more). In doing so, we help drive positive global impact aligned to many of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s).</li><li>Our team builds cutting-edge, peer-reviewed science (incorporating climate projections, remote sensing data) and translates that into financial impacts (to the value of assets or business disruption linked to failure of critical infrastructure) that our customers in the financial services industry use to identify, manage and mitigate those risks.</li><li>Climate X’s customers include the world’s largest banks, asset managers and insurance companies including CBRE, Standard Chartered, Virgin Money and Federated Hermes, as well as a partnership ecosystem that includes Deloitte, Capgemini and AWS. Combined, they manage over $6.5 trillion of assets.</li><li>Customers choose us thanks to our ecosystem of products that help solve real human problems and drive tangible business benefits. They love our customer-centric mindset, as well as our pace of innovation in the market.</li></ul> THE IMPACT YOU’LL OWNAt Climate X, we’re building global-scale models to assess the physical risks of climate change. We combine observation data and model outputs at both local and global scales to project physical impacts of climate change, such as floods, subsidence, storms, droughts, and wildfires. You will be a key contributor to the development, calibration and validation of loss models that support our mission to help clients assess and manage climate risks. We’re seeking an enthusiastic and capable climate scientist with expertise in the modelling of (extra-) tropical cyclones to join the team and support the continual development of our internal hazard models and asses the impact of climate change on the risk posed by these perils. This role is focused on the continual support and development of our storm based hazard models (currently tropical cyclones and European extra-tropical cyclones).<ul><li>Undertake cutting-edge scientific model development by leading the refinement of our storm models based on scientific research, developing and updating tropical and extratropical cyclone hazard models.</li><li>Lead robust model evaluation and verification work to evaluate the model outputs and document models for internal and external communication for banking clients.</li><li>Disseminate scientific insights and methods to engage with stakeholders, customers, the scientific community - representing the team at international conferences and industry events.</li><li>Collaborate across scientific and technical domains through working with other climate and geospatial scientists co-develop integrated storm risk (hazard and loss) models</li></ul>What You’ll Gain<ul><li>Collaboration with a dynamic, interdisciplinary science team- bringing together expertise in scientific software engineering, loss modelling, geospatial analysis, remote sensing, hazard modelling, and machine learning.</li><li>Growth in independent project leadership, with opportunities to manage and deliver your own initiatives from concept to completion.</li><li>Cross-functional collaboration with teams across the business, helping shape innovative science products tailored to customer needs</li><li>Hands-on experience in production-grade software development.</li></ul> ESSENTIAL SKILLS<ul><li>PhD or equivalent experience in climate science, hazard modelling or statistical analysis.</li><li>Experience leveraging scientific computing techniques using Python in a cloud/remote environment.</li><li>Strong communication skills with ability to explain complex concepts to a non-technical audience.</li><li>A desire to use scientific expertise to drive real-world impact by understanding client and product needs, and work under tight deadlines to enhance our customer offering.</li></ul>DESIRABLE SKILLSExperience in any one of these areas makes you stand out but are not required for the role and if you are passionate and interested in the role we encourage you to apply!<ul><li>Experience researching (extra) tropical cyclone impacts and risk.</li><li>Experience working with catastrophe or impact models, particularly for wind-based perils.</li><li>Experience with Extreme Value Theory or computer vision machine learning.</li></ul> BENEFITS🌍 Contribute to a business making purposeful impact related to climate change💡 Monthly training &amp; conference budget to help you upskill and develop your career (£1,000 per year)📈 6 monthly appraisals and 12 monthly pay reviews💰 Pension contribution scheme🏡 Hybrid working (3 days/week in office)🏥 Mental Health and Wellbeing support via Oliva🏖 25 days holiday, plus Bank Holidays, annual 3-day Christmas-closure, and half day on your birthday (36.5 days total!)🏏 Optional quarterly socials, dinners, and fun nights out🥐 A fully stocked supply of snacks, fruit, and refreshments for the days when you are in the office🚴 Cycle to work scheme via gogeta🍼 Enhanced maternity and paternity🐶 Pawternity🐕 Dog friendly office (official residence of Alfie, Chief Mischief Officer) EQUAL OPPORTUNITIESClimate X are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds.

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Storms Scientist

<h1>Storms Scientist</h1>&nbsp;About usClimate X is a purpose-driven technology company, backed by GV (Google Ventures), Western Technologies (early investors in Meta, Google, Palantir), Commerz Ventures, Pale Blue Dot, Deloitte, and other world-class&nbsp;investors. We’re a wonderfully diverse, growing team with physical offices in London and New York City.Demand for Climate X is growing fast, and we need to build our team! You’ll be at the front of a nascent industry, working as part of a fantastic and diverse team, doing things that you can be proud of. We’re excited to have the opportunity to speak with you during this process.&nbsp;Our missionTo deepen the understanding of our changing planet and inspire meaningful action.&nbsp;What we do<ul><li>We’re helping the world become more resilient to the impacts of physical climate risks (including floods, fires, storms and more). In doing so, we help drive positive global impact aligned to many of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s).</li><li>Our team builds cutting-edge, peer-reviewed science (incorporating climate projections, remote sensing data) and translates that into financial impacts (to the value of assets or business disruption linked to failure of critical infrastructure) that our customers in the financial services industry use to identify, manage and mitigate those risks.</li><li>Climate X’s customers include the world’s largest banks, asset managers and insurance companies including CBRE, Standard Chartered, Virgin Money and Federated Hermes, as well as a partnership ecosystem that includes Deloitte, Capgemini and AWS.&nbsp;Combined, they manage over $6.5 trillion of assets.</li><li>Customers choose us thanks to our ecosystem of products that help solve real human problems and drive tangible business benefits. They love our customer-centric mindset, as well as our pace of innovation in the market.</li></ul>&nbsp;THE IMPACT YOU’LL OWNAt Climate X, we’re building global-scale models to assess the physical risks of climate change. We combine observation data and model outputs at both local and global scales to project physical impacts of climate change, such as floods, subsidence, storms, droughts, and wildfires. You will be a key contributor to the development, calibration and validation of loss models that support our mission to help clients assess and manage climate risks. We’re seeking an enthusiastic and capable climate scientist with expertise in the modelling of (extra-) tropical cyclones to join the team and support the continual development of our internal hazard models and asses the impact of climate change on the risk posed by these perils. This role is focused on the continual support and development of our storm based hazard models (currently tropical cyclones and European extra-tropical cyclones).<ul><li>Undertake cutting-edge scientific model development by leading the refinement of our storm models based on scientific research, developing and updating tropical and extratropical cyclone hazard models.</li><li>Lead robust model evaluation and verification work to evaluate the model outputs and document models for internal and external communication for banking clients.</li><li>Disseminate scientific insights and methods to engage with stakeholders, customers, the scientific community - representing the team at international conferences and industry events.</li><li>Collaborate across scientific and technical domains through working with other climate and geospatial scientists co-develop integrated storm risk (hazard and loss) models</li></ul>What You’ll Gain<ul><li>Collaboration&nbsp;with a dynamic, interdisciplinary science team- bringing together expertise in scientific software engineering, loss modelling, geospatial analysis, remote sensing, hazard modelling, and machine learning.</li><li>Growth in independent project leadership, with opportunities to manage and deliver your own initiatives from concept to completion.</li><li>Cross-functional collaboration&nbsp;with teams across the business, helping shape innovative science products tailored to customer needs</li><li>Hands-on experience in production-grade software development.</li></ul>&nbsp;ESSENTIAL SKILLS<ul><li>PhD or equivalent experience in climate science, hazard modelling or statistical analysis.</li><li>Experience leveraging scientific computing techniques using Python in a cloud/remote environment.</li><li>Strong communication skills with ability to explain complex concepts to a non-technical audience.</li><li>A desire to use scientific expertise to drive real-world impact by understanding client and product needs, and work under tight deadlines to enhance our customer offering.</li></ul>DESIRABLE SKILLSExperience in any one of these areas makes you stand out but are not required for the role and if you are passionate and interested in the role we encourage you to apply!<ul><li>Experience researching (extra) tropical cyclone impacts and risk.</li><li>Experience working with catastrophe or impact models, particularly for wind-based perils.</li><li>Experience with Extreme Value Theory or computer vision machine learning.</li></ul>&nbsp;BENEFITS🌍 Contribute to a business making purposeful impact related to climate change💡 Monthly training &amp; conference budget to help you upskill and develop your career (£1,000 per year)📈 6 monthly appraisals and 12 monthly pay reviews💰 Pension contribution scheme🏡 Hybrid working (3 days/week in office)🏥 Mental Health and Wellbeing support via Oliva🏖 25 days holiday, plus Bank Holidays, annual 3-day Christmas-closure, and half day on your birthday (36.5 days total!)🏏 Optional quarterly socials, dinners, and fun nights out🥐 A fully stocked supply of snacks, fruit, and refreshments for the days when you are in the office🚴 Cycle to work scheme via gogeta🍼 Enhanced maternity and paternity🐶 Pawternity🐕 Dog friendly office (official residence of Alfie, Chief Mischief Officer)&nbsp;EQUAL OPPORTUNITIESClimate X are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds.

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