Senior Engineer

Employer: Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance Company

Job Site: 6111 Bollinger Canyon Road, Suite 540, San Ramon, CA 94583

Job Title: Senior Engineer (San Ramon, CA) 

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, and 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. This includes 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. Development work will be incorporated into the larger risk methodology and models being used by BHSI.
• Critically evaluate vendor and open-source catastrophe models (e.g. Verisk, SP3, GEM, and others) to determine applicability to specific accounts, regions, and perils via the application of civil and structural engineering principles, probability, statistics, and performance-based engineering concepts, with the ultimate goal of determining the validity of these advanced risks to identify potential economic loss metrics during a natural catastrophe event.
• Communicate risk evaluation and risk and model development results to both internal and external stakeholders.
• Serve as an advisor to newer, less experienced engineers and have responsibility for the allocation of tasks and the oversight of their work product.  Also, be effective as a guide and mentor for the professional growth of newer team members.

Position Requirements: Ph.D. degree (or foreign equivalent) in Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, or a related field. In the alternative, will accept 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.

Must also possess advanced technical knowledge and skills gained through academic research and/or academic coursework and/or relevant experience in the following areas:

1. Structural analysis methodologies including probabilistic structural risk evaluation, advanced structural modeling, soil-structure interaction, and finite element methods.
2. Statistical and probabilistic concepts and methodologies.
3. Earthquake engineering and wind engineering concepts.
4. U.S. and International structural design guidelines and practices.
5. Hazard analytics and assessment of earthquake and windstorm perils.
6. Programming in the following languages:  Python, MATLAB, R, C++, SQL.
7. Working knowledge of ArcGIS (or equivalent).

*Multiple Positions available

Salary Range: $151,000 – $170,000

Apply online at: https://www.bhspecialty.com/career/ or contact [email protected] and reference Job AA025.

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