Hydraulic Modeller 

Location: Commutable distance to Bristol, this is a hybrid role office attendance is desired once a week. 

Salary range: £Competitive + Generous benefits package

The Company

Fathom is a fast-growing business whose vision is to become the world leader in the provision of water risk intelligence (www.fathom.global).

We provide flood and climate data on a global scale, enabling our customers to understand and manage risk, thereby saving lives and reducing cost.

We have a team of nearly 50 passionate, committed people, all focussed on our mission, comprising software developers, flood and climate modellers and a commercial team.

The Role

We are looking for an experienced hydraulic modeller to join our growing team and help us to build flood models across the globe. There will be opportunities to work on various parts of the model build process, including helping to incorporate new datasets into our modelling framework, debugging any issues that arise when building models and helping to validate model outputs. There will also be plenty of opportunity to undertake CPD and contribute to academic papers, as well as contributing to work across other teams throughout the business.

We are looking for applicants who are able to use their initiative and creativity to tackle the many challenges of building models at scale. Most of our processes are programmatic, and familiarity with Python will be necessary to enable you to understand our model framework and implement improvements. You should have excellent coding skills and be able to write scripts to automate various aspects of data processing. Most importantly you must be enthusiastic about hydraulic modelling and be willing to learn as we continue to break new scientific ground in the understanding of flood risk across the globe under a changing climate.

Key Responsibilities

• Build, simulate and process hydraulic model simulations from local to global scales

• Undertake QA/QC and model validation

• Continue to develop and improve core codebase within the modelling framework

• Contribute to client-based projects as required

• Explore how newly released scientific datasets can be incorporated into our hydraulic models

• Contribute to modelling academic journal articles

Skills Needed

• At least three years’ experience working with hydraulic models (experience can be either through work in industry or academia)

• Strong coding skills, including Python (essential), Matlab (desirable) and R (desirable)

• Experience with GIS (QGIS - desirable)

• A sound knowledge of hydraulic modelling principles

• Practical experience with hydraulic solver packages (Fathom’s model is based on the principles of LISFLOOD-FP but experience with other packages is also welcomed)

• Experience building and simulating hydraulic models, as well as analysing their outputs

Personal attributes

• Ability to work and communicate effectively as part of a team

• Solid problem solving skills, to help diagnose and resolve modelling issues that arise

• Keen to expand their knowledge of flood risk modelling

• Ability to develop novel approaches to make improvements to our modelling approaches

• Strong attention to detail