Research Scientist (Staff / Sr Staff) - Power Markets San Francisco, Boston, London, or Remote

Equilibrium Energy, Inc.; Fort Wayne (IN); Remote; USD 80,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative climate tech company is seeking a Research Scientist to drive advancements in energy market analytics and optimization. This role involves leveraging research insights to shape product direction, tackling complex operations research problems, and developing models to analyze electricity market behavior. Join a team of experts dedicated to revolutionizing the clean energy transition through cutting-edge solutions. With a collaborative culture and flexible remote work options, this position offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact in the energy sector while fostering professional growth and development.

Benefits

Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and 401k package

Equity grant

Unlimited vacation

Flexible work schedule

Remote work options

Professional growth and development opportunities

Qualifications

• 4+ years experience in the electricity & energy domain.
• 3+ years experience with Python and/or Julia.
• Experience with optimization techniques and modeling.

Responsibilities

• Use research insights to influence product direction.
• Develop models to analyze electricity market behavior.
• Lead research projects in energy asset management.

Skills

Python

Julia

Operations Research

Optimization Techniques

Data Analysis

Communication Skills

Education

Advanced degree in Computer Science

Advanced degree in Operations Research

Advanced degree in Electrical Engineering

Advanced degree in Power Systems

Tools

NumPy

SciPy

Pandas

JuMP

Job description

Research Scientist (Staff / Sr Staff) - Power Markets

San Francisco, Boston, London, or Remote

About our Company

Equilibrium Energy is revolutionizing the clean energy transition by developing innovative grid-scale energy storage solutions. Our technology and market platform helps utilities, independent power producers, and commercial customers optimize their renewable energy assets, improve grid reliability, and accelerate decarbonization. As a fast-growing climate tech company, we're building infrastructure that will shape the future of energy markets and enable a sustainable energy economy.

What we are looking for

Equilibrium was founded with a vision for building a company where innovation, collaboration, optimization, machine learning, and data science power all aspects of our algorithmic decision-making. We are looking for a staff / sr staff research scientist with deep power markets domain expertise to accelerate the design and delivery of the autonomous energy market participation, asset optimization, and valuation products that will drive the future success of our company.

As a key member of our sciences group, you will play an active role in a) cultivating our culture of experimentation, insights discovery, and incremental delivery, b) facilitating research into state of the art operations research & optimization techniques, c) helping to identify, recruit, train, and mentor members of our growing team of exceptional scientists, and d) partnering with our engineers, product managers, computational scientists, analysts, and commercial team to influence the near to medium term product roadmap.

What you will do

Use research insights to shape product direction: Influence product and engineering roadmaps through presentation of research insights, experimental results, and model performance metrics, in order to evolve organizational direction. Initiate and lead cross-functional engagements to surface, prioritize, formulate, and structure complex and ambiguous challenges where advanced novel scientific research can have outsized company impact.

Optimization algorithms formulation & research: Tackle complex scientific & operations research problems by researching published academic literature, surveying industry techniques & intuition, and executing hands-on experimental testing & modeling. Solve ambiguous energy domain-specific optimal bidding & risk management problems through novel and innovative quantitative solutions and architectures. Lead medium to long term research projects that advance the state-of-the-art in energy asset management and financial trading performance.

Energy market analytics: Develop models and tools to analyze the behavior of electricity markets, including power prices, ancillary services dispatch, grid network models, transmission outages & constraints, and optimal power flows.

The minimum qualifications you’ll need

• Passion for clean energy and fighting climate change
• An advanced degree in computer science, operations research, electrical engineering, power systems, or related quantitative discipline
• 4+ years experience in the electricity & energy domain (e.g. power systems modeling, power flow, security constrained unit commitment, economic dispatch etc)
• 3+ years experience with python and/or julia, and the supporting science tool suite (e.g. numpy, scipy, pandas, JuMP, etc)
• Experience with optimization techniques (e.g. stochastic optimization, robust optimization)
• Experience with optimization modeling packages and solvers
• Experience communicating mathematical concepts, analytical results, and data-driven insights to both technical and non-technical audiences
• A collaboration-first mentality, with a willingness to teach as well as learn from others

What we offer

Equilibrium is composed of deeply knowledgeable industry experts across all our functions, with decades of experience in energy-specific commercial structuring, power systems engineering, machine learning, computational research, operations research, distributed and compute-intensive infrastructure, and modern software & ML engineering. Our experience in the space means we’ve previously built versions of nearly every technical component of our platform. We are now designing them better, and combining them in a holistic and novel way, to achieve global scale and climate impact. We pride ourselves on our deeply empathetic & collaborative culture, honest and direct but respectful communication, and our balanced, flexible, and remote-first work environment.

Employee benefits include:

• Competitive base salary and a comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and 401k package
• Opportunity to own a significant piece of the company via a meaningful equity grant
• Unlimited vacation and flexible work schedule
• Ability to work remotely from anywhere in the United States, Canada & Europe, or join one of our regional hubs in Boston, SF Bay Area, or London
• Accelerated professional growth and development opportunities through direct collaboration and mentorship from leading industry expert colleagues across energy and tech

Equilibrium Energy is a diverse and inclusive, equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, nationality, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.