Machine Learning Engineer, Intern (Term-Time)

InternHunt; Boston, Northern (MA, KY); Hybrid; USD 34,000 - 48,000; Part time

Job summary

Powertown seeks a Machine Learning Engineer Intern to design and implement intelligence systems for battery storage and the electric grid. You will work on grid infrastructure, forecasting, and optimization, developing agent-based workflows and AI-driven research capabilities.

The role emphasizes hands-on experimentation, hypothesis testing, and fast iteration with AI tools while maintaining strong engineering judgment. Term-time internship based in Boston, MA.

Qualifications

• Evidence of exceptional ability: original research, side projects, or shipped systems.
• Experience with energy storage, utility data, or forecasting.
• Strong quantitative background in math, statistics, or data science.

Responsibilities

• Build intelligence around peak shaving, load behavior, utility signals, and storage opportunities.
• Create agents that research, extract, compare, reason, and propose next steps.
• Use AI aggressively, then audit it ruthlessly.
• Invent workflows the industry does not yet have.

Skills

Exceptional ability

Energy storage

Grid data

AI-assisted research

Education

Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field

Job description

Machine Learning Engineer, Intern (Term-Time)

2026-10-08

Role Description

OverviewPowertown is hiring Machine Learning Engineers and Interns to build intelligence systems for battery storage and the electric grid. This role is about grid infrastructure, peak shaving, utility data, storage economics, asset behavior, forecasting, optimization, and agentic workflows. We are not looking for someone who simply trains models. We are looking for people who can invent new ways for AI, data, and software to make Powertown better at finding, evaluating, and operating storage assets.

What You'll Do

• Build intelligence around peak shaving, load behavior, utility signals, and storage opportunities
• Create agents that research, extract, compare, reason, and propose next steps
• Use AI aggressively, then audit it ruthlessly
• Invent workflows the industry does not yet have

Preferred MajorsComputer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science, Applied Math, Statistics, Electrical Engineering, Energy Systems, Operations Research, Power Systems, Physics, or another rigorous quantitative field.

• You are a superstar technical thinker who uses ML as one of many tools
• You have very high agency. You do not wait for a clean dataset, a polished problem statement, or a perfect roadmap. You form hypotheses, build instruments, test ideas, and keep moving
• You are AI-first but not AI-reliant. You use agents, LLMs, automation, and modern tools to move faster, but your own judgment stays in charge
• You are drawn to the grid because it is physical, messy, high-stakes, and full of hidden leverage

Preferred Qualifications

• Evidence of exceptional ability: original research, serious side projects, open-source work, startup building, competitions, technical writing, or shipped systems
• Experience with energy storage, utility data, tariffs, load analysis, peak shaving, grid infrastructure, electricity markets, forecasting, optimization, anomaly detection, agentic workflows, or AI-assisted research systems
• Exceptional ability exemplified through personal projects