Moody’s Corporation Looking for Software Development Engineer Intern at Washington, DC Full Time

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Team Overview:

RMS Model Engines Team develops key backend engines that perform distributed execution of catastrophe models. Team contributes to multiple impactful areas, including:

• Create high-performance computational engines used in catastrophe modeling
• Optimize complex numerical computing task to run fast on the Cloud
• Productize and optimize new models and engines.

Role and Responsibilities:

We are looking for a talented Software Engineer intern with an interest in distributed computation, data processing, and building scalable cloud services and a passion to learn. As a member of the model engines team, you will help create models risk models for natural, human-generated, and climate disasters. The engines help customers to make informed, multi-billion-dollar decisions with global impact.

You are expected to contribute to projects in a fast-paced, agile, SaaS engineering environment. You will contribute to the development and testing of the modeling engines. You should be willing to learn quickly, dive into existing code to help keep the service fully operational. Your technical ability will manifest in the wide-ranging scope and far-reaching scale of your impact. The rest of the team help apply your knowledge and help you learn real-life engineering skills.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Willingness to learn new things and passion to solve difficult technical problems.
• 1+ years of programming experience
• Study in computer sciences, engineering, physics or related technical fields.
• Experience writing code in Java, C#, C++, or Scala
• Passion for software quality and performant algorithms
• Interest in cloud-native development (AWS, Azure, GCP etc.)
• Demonstrable knowledge of the classical data structures and algorithms, understand their runtime and space-time complexity.

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Experience building software in an academic or industry setting.
• Experience with modeling or simulations a plus
• Skills in analytic computing and algorithms
• Knowledge of programming concepts such as multi-threading, memory management, and query processing
• Familiarity with statistics, numerical computing
• Prior history with agile development

For US-based roles only: the anticipated hiring hourly rate for this position is $35, depending on factors such as experience, education, level, skills, and location.

Moody’s is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, gender, age, religion, national origin, citizen status, marital status, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. Moody’s also provides reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities or based on a sincerely held religious belief in accordance with applicable laws. If you need to inquire about a reasonable accommodation, or need assistance with completing the application process, please email [email protected] This contact information is for accommodation requests only, and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.

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This position may be considered a promotional opportunity, pursuant to the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act.

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