Software Engineer/Developer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 27, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 10, 2026.
Company Description
Great talent is both rare and valued....... the ability to recognize great talent is even more rare!
One premise remains constant, even with the technological advances over the past half-century: It takes Tier-1 Leadership & Talent to build Strong, Successful Organizations! That's where Mackenzie comes in.
Mackenzie was founded in 1992 to grow strong LifeScience, Animal Science, HealthCare and Technology companies with their most important asset - Talent, and to become the preeminent consulting firm in our space. Those goals have been accomplished time and time again as Mackenzie has been recognized simultaneously and in consecutive years (Business Journal Book of lists) as the Mid-Atlantics top firm. Along the way we have completed thousands of searches from the Boardroom to the C-Suite, and from the Sales Field to the Scientific Bench on both the Business and Manufacturing sides of an organization. Mackenzie has expanded Start-ups and Conglomerates locally, regionally, and nationally and filled just about every position in the organizational matrix.
Software Engineer/Developer
This company needs someone to fill their Quantitative Catastrophe Model Developer position that will plan, design, develop, test, and debug modeling applications and services using Python. In this position, you will be responsible for helping to improve the application development process and ensuring adherence to the proper standards and process as well as participate in and guide modeling application architectural decisions.
You will be called upon to: work with other Modelers to covert complex business requirements into technical designs; assist in the planning and monitoring of critical modeling systems within the production environment, and work with other Modelers to develop in-house catastrophe models. You will be expected to explain and or simplify highly complex concepts to others and management.
Other tasks include:
* Be responsible for software development, testing, and maintenance of the models within a catastrophe modeling application using Python (Numpy), C and SQL.
* Be able to assist in the definition of and compliance with technical architectural standards on application as well as services development.
* Be able to work either individually or in small groups with other developers and provide solutions where there may not be detailed requirements.
* Understand the problems/aims, scope the requirements and design and implement the solution in an agile development environment.
* Numerate Bachelor’s Degree (e.g. Mathematics, Physics, Engineering) or equivalent experience in Mathematics or Computer Science.
* A minimum of 3 years application development using Python and Numpy; alternatively prior experience working with in an object oriented language and extensive demonstrable experience with one of the following: MATLAB, R, S+ or Octave. An equivalent language may also be acceptable.
Abilities to include:
*Experience of working with matrixes and arrays/vectors. (Understanding dimensional matrix operations and manipulations).
*Stochastic simulation experience (in the area of pricing financial instruments)
*Have SQL experience as well as an understanding of XML and XSLT processing and manipulation
Pluses for consideration would include:
Understanding of insurance principles.
Prior experience working with AIR, RMS or EQE models
Catastrophe simulations
Prior exposure to natural catastrophe hazard modeling
Salary: 95k + DOE sorry, no sponsors at this time
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