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We leverage the most advanced climate science and engineering approaches to quantify and communicate the risk for every property in the country. 

Company &amp; 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 <a href="https://pitch.com/v/first-street-culture-deck---public-6sv4i5">here</a> and see what Climate Risk Financial Modeling is all about<a href="https://youtu.be/GLTGXKwJlRI"> here</a>.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:<ul style=""><li>Institutional investors like Norges Bank Investment Management and Blackstone.</li><li>Banking enterprises, including Bank of America and Fifth Third.</li><li>Government bodies ranging from Fannie Mae to the US State of Connecticut.</li><li>Millions of everyday users on Zillow, Redfin, <a href="http://Realtor.com">Realtor.com</a>, <a href="http://Homes.com">Homes.com</a>, and more.</li></ul>Come join us and use your talents to change the world.Team &amp; 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 &amp; 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.What you’ll do:<ul style=""><li>Connect climate and financial risk by developing custom loss models representing impacts to structures and infrastructure assets globally to pair with First Street’s hazard models</li><li>Create models of structure damage, repair time, and indirect impacts using a combination of approaches including first principles of engineering, cost estimation, statistics, and machine learning.</li><li>Analyze historical loss observational data to improve model accuracy, identify quality control issues, and develop suggested remedies for identified issues.</li><li>Perform statistical analysis to validate loss model predictions and assess model uncertainties.</li><li>Conduct background research and using insights from the current state of academic literature to inform approaches in quantitative modeling.</li><li>Analyze building codes and exposure datasets to identify common construction practices globally to inform loss model section</li><li>Create property level adaptation scenarios that enable customers to understand the return on investment of personal property protections</li></ul>What you’ll need:<ul style=""><li>Ph.D. (preferred) or Master’s degree with 3 years experience in structural engineering, civil engineering, operation research, or a related field.</li><li>Strong background in vulnerability developments, statistics, and/or quantitative analytics</li><li>Hands-on experience in developing risk models for buildings or infrastructure systems using machine-learning models or statistical methods</li><li>Experience working with multi-hazard data, catastrophe models, building level damage data, and construction cost estimation data</li><li>Expertise using scripted languages like Python</li><li>Expertise in a science-based approach with a high degree of concern for reliability, accuracy and reproducibility</li></ul>What will make you stand out:<ul style=""><li>Experience in developing scalable and generalized catastrophe risk models</li><li>Strong publication record</li><li>Proficiency with source control platforms such as Git</li><li>Research experience in the latest resilience modeling, technical guidelines, etc.</li><li>ML/AI experience</li><li>Expertise with big data analysis in high performance compute environments, either on premises or on cloud platforms including AWS, GCP, and/or Azure</li><li>Hands on experience in building loss models from scratch</li></ul>Our anticipated US base salary compensation range for this role is $90,000-$125,000 plus competitive benefits package, which includes bonus, 401(k) with company match, paid time off, paid parental leave, and comprehensive health benefits. Actual compensation will vary depending on factors such as work location as well as additional factors such as a candidate’s qualifications, skills, experience, competencies, and relevant education. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your location during the hiring process.How we work:<ul style=""><li>Impact: We only focus on things that move the needle</li><li>Drive: We are driven by the role we play in connecting climate change to financial risk</li><li>Ownership: This is our company and we act accordingly</li><li>Urgency: We move quickly because the world depends on it</li><li>Resilience: We have a growth mindset in all that we do</li></ul>What we offer:<ul style=""><li>Competitive salary commensurate with experience</li><li>Ownership interest in the company via Employee Stock Option Plan</li><li>Hybrid Schedule with in-office work days on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday</li><li>15 vacation days along with 8 statutory company holidays, 5 days for winter break office closure, and 10 sick days</li><li>Healthcare monthly premium covered at 100% for employee or a significant contribution for family plans</li><li>Vision and dental benefits with partial employee contribution</li><li>12 weeks of paid parental leave</li><li>Access to One Medical, Teledoc, HealthAdvocate, Kindbody, and Talkspace</li><li>Company 401k program</li><li>Commuter benefits</li><li>Life Insurance</li><li>Tech startup environment</li><li>Weekly team meals and an office stocked with coffee and snacks</li><li>Working on the world’s biggest issue with other passionate professionals</li></ul>We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Once you've applied, please be sure to check your spam folder, as emails from our recruiting team are sometimes rerouted.

Risk & Resilience Engineer

Company &amp; 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 <a href="https://pitch.com/v/first-street-culture-deck---public-6sv4i5">here</a> and see what Climate Risk Financial Modeling is all about<a href="https://youtu.be/GLTGXKwJlRI"> here</a>.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:<ul style=""><li>Institutional investors like Norges Bank Investment Management and Blackstone.</li><li>Banking enterprises, including Bank of America and Fifth Third.</li><li>Government bodies ranging from Fannie Mae to the US State of Connecticut.</li><li>Millions of everyday users on Zillow, Redfin, <a href="http://Realtor.com">Realtor.com</a>, <a href="http://Homes.com">Homes.com</a>, and more.</li></ul>Come join us and use your talents to change the world.Team &amp; Role OverviewThe engineering team at First Street is the backbone of our mission: using technology and data to help the world understand and adapt to climate risk. We’re an AI-native team building the systems that power our global products—tools relied on by customers to make informed, climate-aware decisions.As a Software Engineering Manager, you will primarily be a hands-on individual contributor responsible for architecting and delivering end-to-end features across frontend and backend systems, while also providing technical leadership and management for a small team of engineers. You will spend the majority of your time on software execution, working closely with product managers, designers, and data partners to translate complex climate data into performant, accessible, and intuitive user experiences.This role is ideal for an engineer with strong frontend fundamentals who is comfortable working across the stack and collaborating deeply with cross-functional partners.What You’ll Do<ul style=""><li>Serve as a lead individual contributor, personally building and shipping critical product features across the frontend and backend.</li><li>Develop user-facing experiences with attention to UI architecture, performance, and accessibility.</li><li>Integrate frontend applications with backend APIs and services (primarily written in Go).</li><li>Collaborate closely with product managers and designers, actively contributing ideas, tradeoffs, and technical perspectives.</li><li>Debug and reason about issues across the stack, including identifying whether problems originate in the frontend, backend, or underlying data.</li><li>Work with platform engineers and data partners to ensure product behavior aligns with real-world data and customer expectations.</li><li>Drive high standards for code quality, documentation, and engineering excellence through direct technical contribution and mentorship.</li><li>Deliver reliable, maintainable software that advances First Street’s mission to connect climate and financial risk</li></ul>Technologies We UseOur stack includes (but is not limited to): AWS, Go, Linux, Kubernetes, MySQL, PostgreSQL (+ PostGIS), Elasticsearch, Redis, Git, Docker, JavaScript, Node.js, React, GraphQL, REST, and Python.What You’ll Need<ul style=""><li>Professional experience working as a software engineer on production systems.</li><li>Strong frontend fundamentals, including UI architecture, performance optimization, and accessibility.</li><li>Experience building and integrating with APIs.</li><li>Comfort working across the stack, even if your background leans frontend or backend.</li><li>Experience collaborating with cross-functional partners such as product managers and designers.</li><li>Ability to debug complex systems and reason about issues across frontend, backend, and data layers.</li><li>Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.</li></ul>What Will Make You Stand Out<ul style=""><li>Experience working and managing engineering teams.</li><li>Experience working in product-driven engineering environments.</li><li>Familiarity with GraphQL and modern frontend data-fetching patterns.</li><li>Experience debugging or working with data-heavy or geospatial systems.</li><li>Prior experience in roles that required close collaboration with non-engineering stakeholders.</li></ul>Our anticipated US base salary compensation range for this role is $140,000-190,000 plus stock options and a competitive benefits package, which includes equity, 401(k), paid time off, paid parental leave, and comprehensive health benefits. Actual compensation will vary depending on factors such as work location as well as additional factors such as a candidate’s qualifications, skills, experience, competencies, and relevant education. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your location during the hiring process.How we work:<ul style=""><li>Impact: We only focus on things that move the needle</li><li>Drive: We are driven by the role we play in connecting climate change to financial risk</li><li>Ownership: This is our company and we act accordingly</li><li>Urgency: We move quickly because the world depends on it</li><li>Resilience: We have a growth mindset in all that we do</li></ul>What we offer:<ul style=""><li>Competitive salary commensurate with experience</li><li>Ownership interest in the company via Employee Stock Option Plan</li><li>Hybrid Schedule with in-office work days on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday</li><li>15 vacation days along with 8 statutory company holidays, 5 days for winter break office closure, and 10 sick days</li><li>Healthcare monthly premium covered at 100% for employee or a significant contribution for family plans</li><li>Vision and dental benefits with partial employee contribution</li><li>12 weeks of paid parental leave</li><li>Access to One Medical, Teledoc, HealthAdvocate, Kindbody, and Talkspace</li><li>Company 401k program</li><li>Commuter benefits</li><li>Life Insurance</li><li>Tech startup environment</li><li>Weekly team meals and an office stocked with coffee and snacks</li><li>Working on the world’s biggest issue with other passionate professionals</li></ul>We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Once you've applied, please be sure to check your spam folder, as emails from our recruiting team are sometimes rerouted.

Software Engineering Manager

Company &amp; 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 <a href="https://pitch.com/v/first-street-culture-deck---public-6sv4i5">here</a> and see what Climate Risk Financial Modeling is all about<a href="https://youtu.be/GLTGXKwJlRI"> here</a>.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:<ul style=""><li>Institutional investors like Norges Bank Investment Management and Blackstone.</li><li>Banking enterprises, including Bank of America and Fifth Third.</li><li>Government bodies ranging from Fannie Mae to the US State of Connecticut.</li><li>Millions of everyday users on Zillow, Redfin, <a href="http://Realtor.com">Realtor.com</a>, <a href="http://Homes.com">Homes.com</a>, and more.</li></ul>Come join us and use your talents to change the world.Team &amp; Role OverviewWe are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our team. The successful candidate will be someone who deeply cares about the environment, loves information technology, and appreciates the importance of data for the success of the First Street mission. They will assist in the ingestion of climate risk and ancillary data from First Street modelers and data partners, develop data pipelines, query geospatial databases, calculate applicable statistics, implement Quality Assurance and Quality Control processes, utilize geographical imagery, and ensure that databases and pipelines coordinate and synchronize with APIs, and web services. This individual’s expertise and leadership will enable all members of the Data Operations team to be successful in their roles.What you’ll do:<ul style=""><li>Provide technical support in the processing, analysis, and interpretation of geospatial observations and modeling data.</li><li>Develop and implement processes for processing large volumes of hazard prediction data to improve risk assessment quality and accuracy.</li><li>Plan, execute and workflows on local and cloud-based environments, using technologies such as GDAL, PostgreSQL, Python, Spark</li><li>Analyze raster and vector data at scale to improve model accuracy, identify quality control issues, and develop suggested remedies for identified issues.</li><li>Perform statistical analysis to validate hazard model predictions and assess model uncertainties.</li><li>Design and implement quality assurance checks on the climate risk data and derived statistics</li><li>Assist in resolution of customer support issues through quality control checks and explanation of the models and risk statistics</li></ul>What you’ll need:<ul style=""><li>Bachelor's Degree in Data or Climate Science, or a related field</li><li>5+ years of professional experience</li><li>Data operations: Experience with the design and use of databases, such as PostgreSQL</li><li>Programming: Proficiency with SQL queries to efficiently and reproducibly analyze complex datasets preferred. Additional languages like Python also required.</li><li>GIS knowledge: Experience with writing software to efficiently process and analyze with geospatial data using open source tools</li><li>Strong understanding of probability and statistics as applied to spatial data</li><li>Expertise using scripted languages to build data pipelines on both local and cloud-based systems</li><li>Proficiency with source control platforms such as Git</li><li>A science-based approach with a high degree of concern for reliability, accuracy and reproducibility</li><li>Experience in GIS and/or geospatial statistical analysis</li><li>Nice to have: experience in DBT and Spark</li></ul>What will make you stand out:<ul style=""><li>Previous experience in the physical sciences</li><li>Masters Degree Preferred Our anticipated US base salary compensation range for this role is $100,000-175,000 plus stock options and a competitive benefits package, which includes equity, 401(k), paid time off, paid parental leave, and comprehensive health benefits. Actual compensation will vary depending on factors such as work location as well as additional factors such as a candidate’s qualifications, skills, experience, competencies, and relevant education. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your location during the hiring process.</li></ul>How we work:<ul style=""><li>Impact: We only focus on things that move the needle</li><li>Drive: We are driven by the role we play in connecting climate change to financial risk</li><li>Ownership: This is our company and we act accordingly</li><li>Urgency: We move quickly because the world depends on it</li><li>Resilience: We have a growth mindset in all that we do</li></ul>What we offer:<ul style=""><li>Competitive salary commensurate with experience</li><li>Ownership interest in the company via Employee Stock Option Plan</li><li>Hybrid Schedule with in-office work days on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday</li><li>15 vacation days along with 8 statutory company holidays, 5 days for winter break office closure, and 10 sick days</li><li>Healthcare monthly premium covered at 100% for employee or a significant contribution for family plans</li><li>Vision and dental benefits with partial employee contribution</li><li>12 weeks of paid parental leave</li><li>Access to One Medical, Teledoc, HealthAdvocate, Kindbody, and Talkspace</li><li>Company 401k program</li><li>Commuter benefits</li><li>Life Insurance</li><li>Tech startup environment</li><li>Weekly team meals and an office stocked with coffee and snacks</li><li>Working on the world’s biggest issue with other passionate professionals</li></ul>We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Once you've applied, please be sure to check your spam folder, as emails from our recruiting team are sometimes rerouted.

Senior Data Engineer

Company &amp; 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 <a href="https://pitch.com/v/first-street-culture-deck---public-6sv4i5">here</a> and see what Climate Risk Financial Modeling is all about<a href="https://youtu.be/GLTGXKwJlRI"> here</a>.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:<ul style=""><li>Institutional investors like Norges Bank Investment Management and Blackstone.</li><li>Banking enterprises, including Bank of America and Fifth Third.</li><li>Government bodies ranging from Fannie Mae to the US State of Connecticut.</li><li>Millions of everyday users on Zillow, Redfin, <a href="http://Realtor.com">Realtor.com</a>, <a href="http://Homes.com">Homes.com</a>, and more.</li></ul>Come join us and use your talents to change the world.If you don't see the role that you're looking for, please feel free to share your application here and we'll get back to you if there's a fit! As there is no specific intended role here, your recruiter will speak with you in more detail regarding compensation range. Typical ranges include base salary plus competitive benefits package, which includes equity, 401(k), paid time off, paid parental leave, and comprehensive health benefits. Actual compensation will vary depending on factors such as work location as well as additional factors such as a candidate’s qualifications, skills, experience, competencies, and relevant education.How we work:<ul style=""><li>Impact: We only focus on things that move the needle</li><li>Drive: We are driven by the role we play in connecting climate change to financial risk</li><li>Ownership: This is our company and we act accordingly</li><li>Urgency: We move quickly because the world depends on it</li><li>Resilience: We have a growth mindset in all that we do</li></ul>What we offer:<ul style=""><li>Competitive salary commensurate with experience</li><li>Ownership interest in the company via Employee Stock Option Plan</li><li>Hybrid Schedule with in-office work days on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday</li><li>15 vacation days along with 8 statutory company holidays, 5 days for winter break office closure, and 10 sick days</li><li>Healthcare monthly premium covered at 100% for employee or a significant contribution for family plans</li><li>Vision and dental benefits with partial employee contribution</li><li>12 weeks of paid parental leave</li><li>Access to One Medical, Teledoc, HealthAdvocate, Kindbody, and Talkspace</li><li>Company 401k program</li><li>Commuter benefits</li><li>Life Insurance</li><li>Tech startup environment</li><li>Weekly team meals and an office stocked with coffee and snacks</li><li>Working on the world’s biggest issue with other passionate professionals</li></ul>We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Once you've applied, please be sure to check your spam folder, as emails from our recruiting team are sometimes rerouted.

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