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Role Description

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.
• Troubleshooting complex algorithms.
• Applying code iteratively to test new settings.
• Contributing to process workflows.
• Assuring quality of output.

This role is a critical piece of the team delivering data that forms the backbone of Jupiter products.

Qualifications

• 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.

Requirements

• 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.
• Experience modeling channel, coastal and floodplain inundation hydrodynamics.
• Experience scaling computational methods for large-scale processing (Docker containers, Kubernetes, AWS EC2, Dask, multiprocessing).

Benefits

• $50 - $55 an hour.