Risk & Resilience Engineer
US$90,000 – US$125,000 / yr base salary
Posted 25 Jun 2026
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- Expected experience
- 3+ yrs
- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Hybrid
- Contract
- Full-time
| Base salary | US$90,000 – US$125,000 / yr |
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Field of studyCivil Engineering, Operations Research, Structural Engineering (or related)
Study levelMaster's or higher
Company & Mission Overview:
Our mission: We exist to connect climate and financial risk.
Who we are: First Street is the standard for Climate Risk Financial Modeling. For over a decade, we’ve been translating climate risk into decision-useful financial outcomes for investors, businesses, communities, and property owners worldwide. With backing from world-class firms, including Innovation Endeavors, Galvanize, General Catalyst, and others, our team has raised millions to change how the global economy thinks about climate change.
Read more about our culture here and see what Climate Risk Financial Modeling is all about here.
Our data: We’ve assembled leading climate scientists and economists to develop transparent, peer-reviewed methodologies to calculate the past, present, and future climate risk for properties and asset classes spanning real estate, infrastructure, and companies. Using physics-based deterministic models, we predict the likelihood of floods, wildfires, hurricanes, and other hazards at any location on Earth, along with associated damage and downtime.
Our customers: We aim to incorporate climate risk data into every financial decision made today. We are relied on every day by:
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Institutional investors like Norges Bank Investment Management and Blackstone.
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Banking enterprises, including Bank of America and Fifth Third.
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Government bodies ranging from Fannie Mae to the US State of Connecticut.
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Millions of everyday users on Zillow, Redfin, Realtor.com, Homes.com, and more.
Come join us and use your talents to change the world.
Team & Role Overview:
We are looking for an expert in risk and resilience of the built environment. Our Science teams build world class hazard models across several perils, and this person will work with them to build world class loss models of the risk for a variety of asset types. The loss models will represent structure damages and associated downtime from exposure to natural hazards like flood, wildfire, and wind, enabling our customers to connect physical risk to financial risk. The Risk & Resilience Modeler will have a background in a combination of engineering, materials science, resilience, cost estimation, and data science. A successful candidate will demonstrate the capability to solve technical challenges in data poor areas.