Senior Optimisation Scientist — Real-Time Grid & Power Systems

GRIDSIGHT; Collingwood; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

ESOP

WFH allowance

Health & wellness allowance

Bi-annual in-person weeks

Lunch provided when in office

Job summary

Gridsight is seeking a Senior/Staff Data Scientist (Optimisation) to design and run optimisation engines powering dynamic electricity grids. You will enable fast evaluation of grid constraints, resources, and renewables connections, supporting grid operators and project assessments.

You will implement real-time capable optimisation, collaborate with the grid modelling team, and shape the technical strategy for data science, optimisation, and future applications.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in linear optimisation roles with demonstrated impact.
• Strong understanding of existence and uniqueness of optima, ill-posedness, local vs global optimisation, gradient descent, least squares minimisation.
• Experience with constrained optimisation and OR tools (linear programming, convex optimisation, MILP).
• Proficient in Python for optimisation and data analysis; familiar with software engineering practices.
• Experience with CI/CD and code reviews in production environments.

Responsibilities

• Solve constrained optimisation problems related to grid operations, resource dispatch, and network management.
• Design optimisation solutions that balance safety, efficiency, and customer impact.
• Collaborate with grid modelling team to formulate network models as optimisation problems.
• Build scalable optimisation solutions for real-time or near-real-time contexts.
• Establish best practices for optimisation model development, validation, and monitoring.
• Contribute to technical strategy for data science, optimisation capabilities and future applications.

Skills

Optimization theory

Linear optimization

Data science

Python

CI/CD

Tools

Pyomo

CBC

Gurobi

CPLEX

OR-Tools

Databricks

Job description

Gridsight is seeking a Senior/Staff Data Scientist (Optimisation) to design and run optimisation engines powering dynamic electricity grids. You will enable fast evaluation of grid constraints, resources, and renewables connections, supporting grid operators and project assessments.

You will implement real-time capable optimisation, collaborate with the grid modelling team, and shape the technical strategy for data science, optimisation, and future applications.