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Forecast Software Engineer - Statistical Modleing & Optimization

Forecast Software Engineer - Statistical Modleing & Optimization

Search Services • Houston, TX, US
4 days ago
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Job description
ABOUT THE ROLE
Our Client is seeking a Forecast Software Engineer — Statistical Modeling & Optimization to build analytical software supporting ERCOT forecasting, benchmarking, and confidence scoring.
Working with power-market, grid-physics, data, and software experts, this engineer will translate established methodologies and grid-model outputs into reliable production software. The role combines software engineering, applied statistics, time-series validation, optimization, and uncertainty measurement.
RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Develop ERCOT congestion, basis, and nodal-price forecasting services
  • Implement simplified SCED, economic-dispatch, and constraint-aware optimization calculations
  • Integrate grid topology, transmission constraints, generator characteristics, load and renewable forecasts, fuel curves, and market data
  • Build rigorous historical replay and backtesting processes while preventing data leakage and look-ahead bias
  • Measure forecast accuracy, bias, stability, calibration, and uncertainty using appropriate statistical methods
  • Develop confidence-scoring methodologies based on model performance, data quality, forecast horizon, scenario volatility, model agreement, and other relevant factors
  • Build standardized frameworks for comparing internal and third-party forecasts
  • Develop ensemble-model comparisons, benchmark reports, and model-performance scorecards
  • Implement scenario and sensitivity analysis for fuel prices, load growth, renewable output, generator availability, outages, and transmission constraints
  • Develop documented APIs and batch-processing workflows for forecasting and confidence scores
  • Write maintainable, tested, version-controlled Python software and automated unit, integration, regression, and statistical tests
  • Document methodologies, formulas, assumptions, dependencies, limitations, and model versions
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in statistics, applied mathematics, operations research, computer science, engineering, econometrics, data science, or a related field
  • Strong production-level Python skills
  • Strong foundation in applied statistics and probability
  • Experience developing quantitative, analytical, or forecasting software
  • Proficiency with NumPy, Pandas, SciPy, scikit-learn, SQL, and Git
  • Experience with time-series validation, backtesting, uncertainty measurement, and model-performance analysis
  • Ability to translate domain-expert requirements into reproducible software
  • Strong testing, debugging, and technical-documentation skills
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
  • Experience with Pyomo, Gurobi, CPLEX, OR-Tools, CVXPY, or similar optimization tools
  • Experience with electricity markets, utilities, grid analytics, production-cost modeling, commodity forecasting, or energy trading
  • Knowledge of LMPs, congestion, economic dispatch, SCED, generator constraints, and transmission systems
  • Experience with ensemble models, probabilistic forecasting, or calibrated confidence measures
  • Experience with PostgreSQL, REST APIs, Docker, and cloud deployment
  • Knowledge of Monte Carlo simulation, Bayesian methods, quantile forecasting, bootstrapping, or similar uncertainty-estimation techniques
  • ERCOT experience is valuable but not required
WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE
  • Operational ERCOT forecasting services integrated with the broader platform
  • Reliable dispatch and constraint-aware forecasting capabilities
  • Reproducible historical replay and backtesting
  • Documented forecast-validation and confidence-scoring frameworks
  • Consistent internal and third-party forecast benchmarking
  • Scenario and sensitivity-analysis capabilities
  • Forecast and confidence-score APIs
  • Automated statistical and regression testing
  • Clear documentation of methodology, assumptions, limitations, and performance
DESIRED CHARACTERISTICS
  • Statistically rigorous while remaining practical and delivery-focused
  • Strong software engineering discipline
  • Able to identify and challenge weak validation approaches
  • Comfortable explaining uncertainty and statistical results to nontechnical audiences
  • Collaborative with market, data, software, and engineering specialists
  • Highly attentive to reproducibility, data lineage, and model governance
  • Comfortable working in a fast-moving startup environment

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