Plus Power | Hiring | Senior Machine Learning Engineer | BigDataKB.com | 08-04-22

JOB DESCRIPTION

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Plus Power is an energy storage market leader, led by proven transmission-level project developers, with a well-positioned pipeline that will transform America’s electric grids into cleaner and more versatile critical infrastructure.

Standalone energy storage is rapidly transforming the U.S. energy markets, because it is cheaper than new natural gas plants, faster to build than fossil peakers or transmission, and able to perform diverse energy services. Plus Power partners with electricity system operators, utilities, and investors to originate and develop standalone energy storage projects that provide critical services to the wholesale electric market. Plus Power’s team applies an intentional mindset to energy storage development by using a data-driven approach to development.

Our team praises Plus Power’s culture committed to radical truth, radical transparency, and continual learning. Our staff excels through Plus Power’s game-changing mission, idea meritocracy, and supportive ecosystem.

Overview

Plus Power recruits outstanding energy project development professionals who are driven to build assets that decarbonize the U.S. energy markets and grow their own careers. Our team looks for data-driven and fact-based mindsets, engaging and collaborative behaviors, and personal growth-focused professionals.

Plus Power is looking to hire a creative, driven and experienced Senior Machine Learning Engineer, specialized in reinforcement learning and deep learning, to join our growing team working on creating an intelligent software platform that provides real-time operation and monitoring of multiple energy storage assets.

Responsibilities

• Draw ideas and techniques from different AI/ML areas such as reinforcement learning, deep learning, optimal control, and stochastic optimization to create high performance solutions applicable to Plus Power’s business problems

• Implement end to end AI/ML solutions to derive business value

• Take responsibility for technical problem solving, including creatively meeting product objectives and developing best practices

• Design, develop and test production ready code

• Collaborate with other data scientists and software engineers to create state of the art intelligent software products for operating energy storage assets across different energy/power markets

Qualifications

• Professional in Python

• 4+ years experience in developing deep learning, reinforcement learning, and stochastic optimization solutions for solving real world problems

• 3+ years experience in developing production ready code in a commercial setting

• 4+ years of professional experience in ML engineering/data science/quantitative modeling or equivalent roles

• Experience with linear programming, mixed-integer programming and stochastic programming

• Experienced with agile software development techniques and tools

• Experience with multi-task learning especially for time series forecasting is a plus

• Understanding of energy markets and Locational Marginal Price (LMP) formation through experience in energy trading or quantitative modeling in the power sector is a plus

• Experience with software development process is a plus

• Minimum of a MSc degree in a quantitative field such as Statistics, Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Operations Research, Economics, or Engineering

• PhD degree is a significant plus

Compensation and Location

Highly competitive remuneration from one of the nation’s most exciting leaders in the energy storage markets. Flexible, work from home locations acceptable for the long-term, or post-Covid from Plus Power’s offices in San Francisco or Houston.

Please email [email protected] with a cover letter and resume if interested.