Software Engineer
Job Opportunity :
Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) has an exciting opportunity for an analytical and technically minded individual with proven engineering and communication skills.
The CAT E&A team is an innovative and versatile technical team conducting location level catastrophe risk evaluations, developing independent catastrophe risk solutions and models, and providing quantitative metrics based on state-of-art science and engineering that inform risk management and underwriting decisions.
Job Location : San Francisco Bay Area (San Ramon).
The successful candidate will contribute to our efforts to develop globally applicable catastrophe risk modeling methodologies and tools to facilitate account risk evaluation and underwriting decision-making.
Specific expertise related to software development in C++ and Python is required. The successful candidate will be able to understand and contribute to our existing software development projects, and at the same time help to develop solutions to the technical challenges that we will encounter in the future.
Duties & Responsibilities :
- Quickly understand and be able to edit existing C++ and Python code.
- Contribute to increasing the computational efficiency of our existing models, by introducing or increasing multi-threading and / or GPU capabilities.
- Work with the team as a whole to help develop our technical platform to be more user-friendly and seamless, with an emphasis on bringing the various individual models together in a more uniform framework.
- Understand and assist with the development of AI and machine learning related projects that are underway.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience :
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field, or Bachelor’s / Master’s degree in civil engineering with an emphasis on software development.
- Minimum of 3 years development experience with C++, preferably in Visual Studio environment.
- Minimum of 3 years development experience with Python.
- Experience with API development.
- Experience working with SQL databases.
- Experience developing software in R and / or MATLAB preferred.
- Experience developing software for GPUs preferred.
- Knowledge of ArcGIS (or equivalent) preferred.
- Experience working with geodatabases preferred.
- Background in probabilistic theory / concepts preferred.
- Education or experience related to structural engineering preferred.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Skilled in critical thinking and analysis.
- Highly motivated and detail oriented.
- Ability to work in a strong integrated team environment.
BHSI Offers :
- A competitive package and exciting growth opportunities for career-oriented teammates.
- A dynamic, action oriented, and thoughtful environment centered on always doing the right thing for our customers, teammates and our other stakeholders.
- A purposely non-bureaucratic organization that embraces simplicity over complexity and emphasizes individual excellence in a team framework.