Principal Data Scientist, Grid Optimization Leader

NextEra Energy, Inc.; Miami (FL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

NextEra Energy, Inc. seeks a Principal Data Scientist to join the FPL Grid Optimization team. Develop analytical frameworks, optimize grid operating strategies, and assess economic and reliability outcomes.

Collaborate across teams to translate insights into updated operating criteria and methodologies. You will build ML and optimization solutions, backtest planning scenarios, and quantify cost and reliability impacts across generation and dispatch decisions, driving data-driven improvements at

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required.
• 6+ years of experience.
• Master’s Degree preferred.
• Doctoral Degree preferred.
• Experience with ML, optimization, statistics.

Responsibilities

• Provide thought leadership, set technical strategy for data science methods.
• Explain methods and results to upper-level executives.
• Develop machine learning, optimization, or other modeling solutions.
• Oversee employee work and learn new techniques.
• Prepare comprehensive analyses and technical reports.

Skills

Machine learning

Optimization

Statistics

Applied mathematics

Distributed computing

Big Data

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Master’s Degree

Doctoral Degree

Tools

Big Data infrastructure

Job description

NextEra Energy, Inc. seeks a Principal Data Scientist to join the FPL Grid Optimization team. Develop analytical frameworks, optimize grid operating strategies, and assess economic and reliability outcomes.

Collaborate across teams to translate insights into updated operating criteria and methodologies. You will build ML and optimization solutions, backtest planning scenarios, and quantify cost and reliability impacts across generation and dispatch decisions, driving data-driven improvements at