First Street Foundation
Senior Data Engineer
New York City · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$100k-$175kDetected 106 days ago
PythonGitSQLPostgreSQLSparkdbtData EngineeringStatisticsCustomer SupportGISLeadership
About the role
- Our mission: We exist to connect climate and financial risk.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical support in the processing, analysis, and interpretation of geospatial observations and modeling data.
- Develop and implement processes for processing large volumes of hazard prediction data to improve risk assessment quality and accuracy.
- Analyze raster and vector data at scale to improve model accuracy, identify quality control issues, and develop suggested remedies for identified issues.
- Perform statistical analysis to validate hazard model predictions and assess model uncertainties.
- Design and implement quality assurance checks on the climate risk data and derived statistics
- Assist in resolution of customer support issues through quality control checks and explanation of the models and risk statistics
- We've assembled leading climate scientists and economists to develop transparent, peer-reviewed methodologies to calculate the past, present, and future climate risk for and asset classes spanning real estate, infrastructure, and companies.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Data or Climate Science, or a related field
- 5+ years of professional experience
- Data operations: Experience with the design and use of databases, such as PostgreSQL
- GIS knowledge: Experience with writing software to efficiently process and analyze with geospatial data using open source tools
- Strong understanding of probability and statistics as applied to spatial data
- Proficiency with source control platforms such as Git
- A science-based approach with a high degree of concern for reliability, accuracy and reproducibility
- Experience in GIS and/or geospatial statistical analysis
Nice to have
- experience in DBT and Spark
- Previous experience in the physical sciences
- Masters Degree Preferred
- Impact: We only focus on things that move the needle
- Ownership: This is our company and we act accordingly
- Urgency: We move quickly because the world depends on it
- Resilience: We have a growth mindset in all that we do
Skills
- Institutional investors like Norges Bank Investment Management and Blackstone.
- Banking enterprises, including Bank of America and Fifth Third.
- Government bodies ranging from Fannie Mae to the US State of Connecticut.
- Millions of everyday users on Zillow, Redfin, Realtor.com http://Realtor.com, Homes.com http://Homes.com, and more.
Compensation
- Competitive salary commensurate with experience
Benefits
- Ownership interest in the company via Employee Stock Option Plan
- 15 vacation days along with 8 statutory company holidays, 5 days for winter break office closure, and 10 sick days
- Healthcare monthly premium covered at 100% for employee or a significant contribution for family plans
- Vision and dental benefits with partial employee contribution
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave
- Access to One Medical, Teledoc, HealthAdvocate, Kindbody, and Talkspace
- Commuter benefits
- Life Insurance
- We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Company info
- 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 https://pitch.com/v/first-street-culture-deck---public-6sv4i5 and see what Climate Risk Financial Modeling is all about here https://youtu.be/GLTGXKwJlRI.
- 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 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:
- 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.
- 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 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:
Equal opportunity
- We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.
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