About the Role
As a Data Scientist, you will analyze real-world data to inform our digital twin model of the electric grid, driving product direction, identifying grid expansion opportunities, and pinpointing aging infrastructure. Your work will help customers understand where to build and invest, and your ideas will shape new product features and infrastructure buildouts.
Responsibilities
- Model accurate digital twin electric networks from imperfect data using AI, deep learning, and classical ML algorithms.
- Surface meaningful analytics and metrics such as wildfire risk to guide customer buildout of electrical infrastructure.
- Advise the company on data insights and inform Neara’s strategy.
- Conduct experiments and A/B tests to improve grid modeling.
- QA and improve predictive models; identify data issues such as distribution drift, overfitting, or test set leakage.
- Craft scalable data pipelines to work with a variety of data sources, including LiDAR, aerial photography, photogrammetry and GIS.
- Mentor others in best practices for model training, data analytics, and building data-driven products.
Requirements
- 3-6 years of experience as a data scientist, ML scientist, or similar at technical, data-driven companies operating in complex environments.
- Strong intuition for data with good communication skills and experience sharing findings with customers and senior leaders.
- Demonstrated experience with AI and Machine Learning and a keen intuition for data modeling.
- Experience translating models into both experiments and deployable software.
- Proficiency in data storage and ETL technologies, such as Parquet, Databricks, Snowflake, PostgreSQL, Spark, and DynamoDB.
- Comfort working in an AWS cloud environment.
- Excellent problem-solving skills as applied to new domains.
- Ability to work effectively asynchronously and cross-functionally on novel, cutting-edge problems.
- Ability to own problems and proactively approach challenges.
Skills
- AI
- Machine Learning
- Data modeling
- Data pipelines
- LiDAR
- Aerial photography
- Photogrammetry
- GIS
- Data storage
- ETL
- Parquet
- Databricks
- Snowflake
- PostgreSQL
- Spark
- DynamoDB
- AWS
Experience Level
- 3-6 years
Benefits
- Highly competitive compensation package with a significant equity component.
About the Company
- We use advanced machine learning to create engineering-grade, physics-enabled digital twins of electricity grids across four continents.
- Our simulations help asset owners understand challenges and implement solutions for millions of kilometers of infrastructure.
- We empower the world’s largest utilities to pinpoint risks, optimize investments, and build a more resilient global energy future.
- Our team is composed of individuals dedicated to making a tangible difference in the real world, using AI and machine learning to accelerate data classification and complex scenario analysis.
- We foster a culture where innovation thrives, with everyone owning the mission.
