Senior Data Scientist

Job Description

Job Description

Note : Base salary offers for this position may vary based on factors such as location, skills, and relevant experience. Some positions may include additional compensation in the form of bonus or commissions.

CPower is a leading Virtual Power Plant platform, monetizing the value of customer-sited energy to intelligently strengthen the grid. For over a decade, we’ve made turning flexible energy into revenue simple for partners and large energy users such as businesses, manufacturers, public institutions and healthcare organizations, delivering over $1.2 billion from demand response and energy flexibility programs to customers since 2015. With 6.7 GW of customer capacity nearly 23,000 sites, we’re empowering energy users across North America, enabling them to benefit from an innovative energy economy.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Data Scientist to join our growing Product team. Your primary, initial responsibility will be to enable new use cases, programs and constraints to be applied to a MILP-based optimization engine, and to monitor and improve optimization accuracy for existing use cases. This will require administering optimization accuracy reports for each customer site (i.e., KPI reporting) to identify and articulate the causes of any accuracy issues; and identifying, testing, and proposing potential changes to the product that address the causes of any accuracy issues. The role may require adding alternative optimization approaches that achieve desired business goals, as well as standing up new optimization services or forecasting functions as required.

Based on candidate location, our primary preference is a hybrid role requiring in-office presence at our Baltimore, MD or New York City location three days per week (Tues / Wed / Thurs). Our secondary preference is remote.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

You will work closely with product business owner, technical product management, and software engineers, and will focus on these topics :

• Identify, prototype, and implement enhancements on the core optimization approach, which includes :

Implementing changes or enhancements to the core data model and problem modelling as requested by the business owner and product manager.

Identify, test, and propose potential changes to the product that address the causes of any identified accuracy issues.

We are looking for a motivated self-starter that thrives in a dynamic environment. A strong work ethic and excellent problem-solving skills are equally important as being a team player who enjoys learning and teaching.

Requirements

Preferred Qualifications

Benefits

Unique opportunity to work at a successful, growing company with a strong entrepreneurial spirit. We focus heavily on developing our employees and linking successes to our core values. CPower offers a great benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, 401K, vacation, up to $10,000 per calendar year in tuition reimbursement, etc. CPower’s leadership prides itself on maintaining a rewarding culture, and always striving to offer a great team-member experience.

CPower is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. We believe that diversity and inclusion among our team members is critical to our success as a company, and we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.