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FM Research Graduate Internship 2025 Climate Risk and Resilience - Future Flood Hazard Models

Employer
FM Global
Location
Norwood, Massachusetts (US)
Salary
$33.00 hour
Closing date
Feb 27, 2025
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Discipline
Atmospheric Sciences, Hydrology
Career Level
Student / Graduate
Education Level
Masters
Job Type
Internship
Relocation Cost
Negotiable
Sector Type
Industry/Private Sector

Job Details

FM is a leading property insurer of the world's largest businesses, providing more than one-third of FORTUNE 1000-size companies with engineering-based risk management and property insurance solutions. FM helps clients maintain continuity in their business operations by drawing upon state-of-the-art loss-prevention engineering and research; risk management skills and support services; tailored risk transfer capabilities; and superior financial strength. To do so, we rely on a dynamic, culturally diverse group of employees, working in more than 100 countries, in a variety of challenging roles.

Exciting and interesting technical challenges await when you join a world-class research team dedicated to reducing the impact of natural hazards. FM helps clients maintain continuity in their business operations by drawing upon state-of-the-art engineering and research.

The Climate Risk and Resilience research group at FM is looking for creative, self-motivated individuals for internships. Selected candidates will work alongside a unique group of scientists to protect the value of FM clients' businesses by developing methods to identify hazards, assess risk, and produce loss prevention solutions that are efficient and cost-effective. The internship will be supervised by senior staff in the Climate Risk and Resilience research group and provides an opportunity to engage in solving real-world science and engineering problems in the insurance industry.

As a future flood hazard model intern, you will be involved in conducting flood discharge trend analysis, flood hydrograph generation, and visualizations. Deliverables include flood discharge trends as a function of future climate Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) and location, and flood discharge input hydrographs for a global flood hydrodynamic model.

Graduate students (with good academic standing for graduation), who are seeking to expand their research experience beyond academia and bring expertise in the following active research areas:

  • Hydrology
  • Climate change

General:

  • Strong analytical skills and solid knowledge of probability and statistics
  • Experience with programming languages such as MATLAB, R, Python, FORTRAN
  • Proficiency in processing large volumes of data
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Desired based on Research topic:

  • GIS skills (e.g., ArcGIS, QGIS, GDAL)
  • Comfortable writing shell scripts and using APIs to automate workflows
  • Comfortable in Microsoft Windows and Linux environments
  • Experience in machine learning (would be a plus)

This is an in-office role based in Norwood, MA.  Temporary relocation support provided for selected qualified candidate.

FM is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to attracting, developing, and retaining a diverse workforce. 

Company

FM Global is Insurance Evolved FM Global provides comprehensive global commercial and industrial property insurance, engineering-driven underwriting and risk management solutions, groundbreaking property loss prevention research and prompt, professional claims handling. As a mutual company, our products and services directly support our clients' overall risk management objectives through: Understanding the nature and reality of their specific risks Establishing sound loss prevention solutions that safeguard against loss Developing cost-effective insurance and risk transfer solutions backed by large, stable capacity Providing the claims and loss mitigation support to minimize business disruption

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