Data Scientist (Staff)

About Our Company

Equilibrium Energy is a well-funded, Series B clean energy startup backed by some of the most prominent institutional investors in climate. We are building a digital native power company operating at the intersection of grid variability, market volatility, economic optimization, commercial structuring, and risk management, across the end-to-end power value chain. Our mission is to accelerate our collective path to climate, energy, and societal equilibriums. Our goal is to become one of the next-generation, digital-native, end-to-end global clean power companies that reshapes the energy industry.

New colleagues will share our vision that a next-generation energy company must be built from the ground up on deep industry expertise combined with an unwavering commitment to modern digital approaches. We design our commercial strategies, operational approaches, and product suites so as to best leverage data-driven insights, automated workflows, ML-infused pipelines, and fully automated decision engines. These capabilities are enabled by our progressively modern software stack and engineering best practices, which in turn provide the scalable platform we need to put a serious dent in carbon emissions. We're looking for collaborative, talented, passionate and resourceful folks to join our team and help us lay the foundation for our important mission and ambitious plan.

What we are looking for

The Analytics team serves a key function at Equilibrium: driving the performance feedback loop that connects research to implementation to operations. We serve as subject matter experts, investigators, storytellers, and catalysts with the purpose of driving the company mission forward.

In order to best serve in this capacity, we are looking for a Data Scientist with experience leading operations analytics processes, driving hypothesis and idea generation, and supporting our partner teams with informative visualizations and clear storytelling. The scientist will focus primarily on virtual energy trading to start, but will be expected to flexibly move between business programs to best meet the evolving needs of the company. They will be expected to build analytical tooling, partnering with Product Managers, Traders, Scientists, Data Engineers, and Software Engineers to bring projects from ideation to completion.

What you will do

Analytics and Engineering

• Conduct data-rich analyses to explore and explain trading strategy financial and operational outcomes, developing hypotheses to catalyze feature development and fundamental research
• Standardize components of our current analysis space, making routine analysis requests straightforward, efficient, and effective on a repeatable basis.
• Grow upon our analysis frameworks by developing analytical models quickly, iterating on and expanding our analytical tool suite.
• Condense and document learnings from operational analysis into proposals and action plans for standardization and automation
• Actively contribute to the definition and implementation of our standardized data model by prototyping data pipelines and working closely with data engineers to define data needs and prioritization
  
  

Operations Support and Visualization

• Define and manage operational performance review processes with short feedback cycles
• Develop explanatory visualizations to empower critical operational decisions, working with Product Managers, Traders, Scientists, and Engineers to define needs and use cases.
• Consult and collaborate with quantitative scientists and software engineers during the strategy development lifecycle, from prototyping and development to QA and go-live to sustainable operations
  
  

The minimum qualifications you'll need

• Passion for clean energy and fighting climate change
• BS/Master's degree in a quantitative discipline (e.g., Computer Science, Operations Research, Economics, Electrical Engineering) or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of professional analytics experience including significant experience with clean energy systems, including energy storage controls, power market operations, time series forecasting, and simulations.
• Demonstrated analytical experience with Python and SQL; ability to translate complex data sets into well-scoped analyses.
• Experience communicating the results of analyses with product, engineering, and leadership teams to influence operations, product, and engineering strategy.
• Effective communication skills to synthesize business and operations needs into informative proposals.
  
  

Nice to have additional skills

• Demonstrated experience with Databricks
• Experience using dbt to build ETL processes
• Expertise with data visualization tools, including Hex, Plotly, Bokeh, and/or Tableau.
• Demonstrated proactivity and self-direction. Willingness to teach as well as learn and be flexible.
• Excellent team collaboration skills and collaboration-first mentality.
• Experience with energy trading systems.
  
  

Not sure this is the right role for you?

We are a high growth company with accelerating hiring needs so there's a great chance we'll be able to create a custom role for you, now or in the future. All roles, titles and compensation packages are tailored to the applicant, so apply anyways and tell us in your cover letter about your dream role.

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.