# Risk & Resilience Engineer at First Street

- Company: First Street
- What the company does: We exist to make the connection between climate and financial risk at scale for financial institutions, companies and governments. Backed by General Catalyst.
- Company website: https://firststreet.org/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: New York City
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $90K to $125K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-06-25
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/firststreet/1bdbd95c-22bd-4217-8207-c5751b3c8fcc
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/first-street-risk-and-resilience-engineer/

## About the role

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.

## What they're looking for

- Ph.D. (preferred) or Master’s degree with 3 years experience in structural engineering, civil engineering, operation research, or a related field
- Strong background in vulnerability developments, statistics, and/or quantitative analytics
- Hands-on experience in developing risk models for buildings or infrastructure systems using machine-learning models or statistical methods
- Experience working with multi-hazard data, catastrophe models, building level damage data, and construction cost estimation data
- Expertise using scripted languages like Python
- Expertise in a science-based approach with a high degree of concern for reliability, accuracy and reproducibility

Tags: Science & Economics