About the Role
Lead the design and development of scientifically rigorous analytics solutions leveraging extensive operational data, focusing on Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS). This role involves hands-on work with Python and modern AI frameworks to develop production-grade analytical models addressing complex BESS problems, directly informing core platform capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Identify, evaluate, and prioritize high-impact advanced analytics opportunities focused on BESS performance, health, and revenue optimization.
- Lead the development of advanced data science solutions from concept through production deployment.
- Leverage Power Factors' large-scale operational BESS database to build analytically rigorous, scalable models used across global storage fleets.
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to ensure analytical solutions are robust, interpretable, and operationally actionable.
- Apply deep BESS domain knowledge to define analytically sound problem formulations, feature engineering strategies, and model validation approaches.
- Engage directly with technically sophisticated customers to explain analytical methods, assumptions, and results with clarity and precision.
- Serve as an internal BESS subject matter expert, supporting product, sales, and customer success teams with domain guidance.
- Stay current with advances in battery science, electrochemical modeling, grid storage economics, and ML for energy systems.
- Propose and lead experiments to improve model quality, expand analytical coverage, and deliver new product capabilities.
- Contribute to the external scientific and technical community through publications, conference presentations, or open-source contributions where appropriate.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in the energy industry, with a strong emphasis on utility-scale battery energy storage systems.
- Deep, hands-on understanding of BESS operation, performance, state-of-charge and state-of-health estimation, thermal management, degradation mechanisms, and lifecycle management.
- Demonstrated experience working with large-scale operational BESS datasets, including BMS telemetry, SCADA, event logs, cycle data, and high-frequency time series.
- Proven experience developing analytical solutions used by asset owners, operators, integrators, or OEM-adjacent organizations to support operational and strategic decision-making.
- Proficiency in Python and modern data science libraries (pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, TensorFlow / PyTorch, etc.).
- Strong grounding in statistics, machine learning, and applied AI, with demonstrated real-world deployment experience.
- Experience with time-series analysis, signal processing, anomaly detection, forecasting, and predictive modeling in industrial or electrochemical contexts.
- Experience with version control (Git) and collaborative software development practices.
- Ability to clearly communicate complex analytical concepts, assumptions, and results to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience working closely with software engineering teams in production environments (APIs, services, deployment pipelines).
- Proven ability to translate operational challenges and customer needs into analytically sound and implementable solutions.
- High degree of autonomy and ownership in complex, technically ambiguous problem spaces.
- Strong scientific rigor, intellectual curiosity, and attention to detail.
- Comfort working on long-horizon, technically demanding problems where analytical quality and robustness are critical.
Skills
- Python
- pandas
- NumPy
- scikit-learn
- TensorFlow
- PyTorch
- Statistics
- Machine Learning
- Applied AI
- Time-series analysis
- Signal processing
- Anomaly detection
- Forecasting
- Predictive modeling
- Git
- Collaborative software development
- BESS domain expertise
- Battery electrochemistry
- BMS data
- System-level operations
- Performance drivers
- Degradation mechanisms
- Grid service delivery
- Data engineering
- Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Scalable data pipelines
- Power markets
- Capacity markets
- Ancillary services
- PPAs
- Grid interconnection
- MLOps
- Large-scale model deployment
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior-level
- 5+ years of experience in the energy industry
Education Level
- Ph.D. or master's degree in electrochemical engineering, physics, applied mathematics, statistics, computer science, or a related quantitative field
About the Company
- Power Factors is a leading software and solutions provider supporting the next generation of clean energy through Unity, one of the most comprehensive and widely deployed Renewable Energy Management Suites (REMS) in the market.
- The company manages more than 300 GW of wind, solar, and energy storage assets globally, serving over 600 customers and 18,000 sites.
- Power Factors' Unity REMS suite spans the full energy value chain — from supervision and control through advanced analytics and market analysis.
- Through open, data-driven applications, the platform enables renewable energy organizations to automate critical processes, integrate complex operational data, and make high-confidence decisions to optimize asset performance and lifecycle value.
- Drawing on deep domain expertise, Power Factors deploys advanced analytics and AI at scale to enable asset owners and operators to improve reliability, availability, and long-term value as the global energy system transitions to clean energy.
- Power Factors fights climate change with code.
Equal Opportunity
- Power Factors is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to engaging a diverse workforce and sustaining an inclusive culture.
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
