Expression of Interest – Brisbane, Australia

FloodMapp AUS Pty is seeking expressions of interest for candidates to enhance their flood modelling system in Fortitude Valley, Australia. Ideal candidates should have experience in hydrology, flood forecasting, machine learning, hydraulic modelling, GIS, and Python development. The company focuses on building a safer future through real-time flood intelligence to support emergency management and community resilience. This is a full-time position based in Brisbane.
FloodMapp is a rapidly growing technology company with the important mission to build a safer future. Flooding is the costliest natural disaster, causing billions in damage and taking thousands of lives across the globe every year. FloodMapp delivers real-time flood intelligence to emergency managers, supporting them to prepare, respond and recover from flood events. We work with asset owners to prevent damaged streamline recovery efforts to keep lights on and roads open. We work with government agencies to improve safety and save lives through targeted evacuations, road closures and swift water rescue. In the face of a changing climate, we help communities adapt, to increase resilience, and recover from disasters.

At FloodMapp, people are our main focus. The world’s hardest problems require the best people. We are relentless in our pursuit to build the best possible team capable to work on large scale solutions to solve global challenges.

We are seeking expressions of interest from candidates who can improve and expand our groundbreaking flood modelling system to create a safer future. Specifically, we are looking for people with some combination of the following:
• experience in hydrology, including model development and calibration
• operational experience with real-time flood forecasting systems
• Understanding of machine learning and its application to hydrology with a strong foundation of mathematics and statistics
• 1D hydraulic modelling and 2D flood modelling experience with either MIKE21, TUFLOW or HEC-RAS
• skills in GIS, data collection, manipulation and analysis.
• experience in Python software development, particularly with experience in data science toolkits such as pandas and scikit-learn
• other support roles such as administration, HR, finance, marketing & sales, customer support or customer success

If the above sounds like you and you are interested in solving very real and very serious problems at scale, we want to hear from you! Please send us your resume, and a cover letter letting us know why you want to join our mission!