Senior Data Scientist

Swell Energy is a California-based residential energy storage developer and aggregator. Swell offers consumers bundled solutions including energy storage, solar, and energy management to save homeowners money and provide smart, clean, and secure home energy. Swell also works with utilities to develop residential energy storage programs that address specified utility needs.

Swell Energy is looking for a Senior Data Scientist to develop and deploy forecasting and operational models for distributed energy storage systems. This position will report to the VP of
Data Science and will require close collaboration with a software engineering team and a data science team. Key responsibilities include:

• Develop and maintain time-series machine learning models to forecast near-future conditions
• Develop and maintain constraint programing models to determine optimal system operation
• Develop probabilistic models capable of operational decisions considering a range of potential future scenarios
• Collaborate with engineering to deploy operational and forecasting models to AWS cloud infrastructure
• Communicate model operations to senior management through visualization and data storytelling
• Other data science related tasks as required

Qualifications:

• BS (MS preferred) in Statistics, Computer Science, Physics, Engineering, or other quantitative discipline
• Academic training in Data Science or equivalent work experience
• Strong working knowledge of Python
• Strong understanding of supervised and unsupervised machine learning, including time series forecasting, classification, clustering, regression, and dimensionality reduction
• Strong understanding of exploratory data analysis, and frequentist and bayesian statistics
• Strong understanding of constraint programing and combinatorial optimization
• Good visualization skills using matplotlib, seaborn, or Tableau
• Good understanding of software development workflows including GitHub and Jira
• Experience with model deployment in AWS cloud infrastructure
• Understanding of the operation of PV generation and distributed energy storage preferred

Swell Energy, Inc is an Equal Employment Opportunity

Swell Energy, Inc. does not discriminate based on the following categories: race, color, religion, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), national origin, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, medical condition (including cancer and genetic characteristics), genetic information, marital status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, age (40 years and over), sexual orientation, veteran and/or military status, domestic violence victim status, political affiliation, and any other status protected by state or federal law.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $140,000.00 - $170,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Work Location: Remote