Optimization Engine Specialist
We're hiring a highly skilled Optimization Engine Specialist to design and build the optimization engines at the core of our platform. This role sits at the heart of our work on calculating safe, real-time capacity for distributed energy resources within network constraints.
Key Responsibilities:
* Develop optimization algorithms and engines for dynamic operating envelopes that manage DER capacity within network constraints
* Formulate and solve constrained optimization problems across grid operations, resource dispatch, and network management
* Design solutions that balance competing objectives — safety, efficiency, customer impact, and operational constraints
* Collaborate with the grid modelling team to translate network models into tractable optimization formulations
* Build optimization systems that perform reliably at operational timescales
* Contribute to technical strategy and help establish best practices for optimization development, validation, and monitoring
Requirements:
* Strong data science foundations: statistical modeling, experimental design, model validation, feature engineering, ML techniques
* Deep optimization expertise: constrained optimization, operations research, linear programming, convex optimization, mixed-integer programming, model predictive control, or metaheuristics
* 5+ years in data science, ML, or optimization roles, with demonstrated impact at a senior or staff level
* Python proficiency and the ability to write quality code for optimization algorithms and analysis
Desirable Skills:
* Understanding of electrical distribution networks, power systems, and grid physics
* Experience with market dispatch, energy economics, or resource scheduling problems
* Software engineering depth — system design, testing, deployment, MLOps
* Familiarity with optimization solvers and frameworks (Pyomo, Gurobi, CPLEX, CBC, OR-Tools, etc.)
* Real-time or near-real-time optimization system experience
* Understanding of DER integration challenges and VPP operations
What We Offer:
* A talented team of engineers, data scientists, and power systems specialists working on hard problems that matter
* Remote-first work environment