🌍 Principal Catastrophe Researcher
📍 London | Hybrid / Remote
Build something genuinely new.
Most catastrophe modelling roles involve maintaining existing models.
This isn't one of them.
We're working with a fast-growing analytics business that's building next-generation catastrophe models from the ground up. Their technology is helping some of the world's leading insurers, reinsurers and financial institutions understand complex natural hazard risk in ways that traditional modelling approaches simply can't.
As they continue to grow, they're looking for an experienced Catastrophe Modeller to become one of the technical leaders within the business.
Whether you're already leading teams or you're a Senior Developer ready to step up, this is an opportunity to influence strategy, shape new products and solve genuinely difficult scientific problems.
🚀 What makes this role different?
You'll have the freedom to influence:
✅ Model design and methodology
✅ Technical direction and product strategy
✅ New hazard development
✅ Scientific validation
✅ Client engagement
✅ The growth of a highly capable technical team
This is a hands-on leadership role where you'll still be writing code, solving modelling challenges and working alongside scientists and software engineers every day.
What you'll be doing
🌪 Lead end-to-end catastrophe model development across hazard, exposure, vulnerability and loss modelling.
💻 Develop, review and optimise Python-based modelling workflows.
📈 Improve model performance, automation and reproducibility.
🧠 Translate cutting-edge science into scalable commercial products.
🤝 Work directly with clients to explain methodology, validate outputs and solve complex technical problems.
👥 Mentor junior developers and help shape a collaborative engineering culture.
🎤 Represent the business at conferences and industry events.
We'd love to hear from people with experience in...
✔ Catastrophe model development
✔ Python
✔ SQL
✔ GIS
✔ Large scientific datasets
✔ Model validation
✔ Technical leadership
✔ Communicating complex science to technical and commercial audiences
Bonus points if you've worked with...
⚡ Severe Convective Storm (hail, tornado, straight-line wind or lightning)
🌍 Exposure modelling or asset databases
📊 Oasis Loss Modelling Framework
🤖 Machine Learning or advanced statistical modelling
Why people join
💡 Build products rather than maintain them.
🚀 Have genuine influence over technical direction.
🌍 Work with world-class scientists, engineers and catastrophe modelling specialists.
📈 Join an ambitious, rapidly growing technology business where your ideas will shape the future platform.
🏡 Flexible hybrid/remote working.
💰 Excellent salary plus meaningful equity participation.
Interested?
If you're an experienced catastrophe modeller looking for something with more technical freedom, greater ownership and the chance to build rather than simply maintain models, I'd love to have a confidential conversation.
📩 Please get in touch directly for more information.
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