What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal Data Scientist position at NextEra Energy?
NextEra Energy Resources is one of the largest wholesale generators of electric power and renewable energy from the wind and sun in North America.
Position Specific Description
We are looking for a Data Scientist to support development of our energy-management system, which enables electric vehicle fleets to scale with ease. The successful candidate will contribute to the design and implementation of key modeling techniques and software modules for our fleet-centric smart-charging system, develop new features for our two advisory software products (EValuate and rEVeal), and make a real-world impact by cleaning up our transportation sector one fleet at a time.
As a Data Scientist at eIQ Mobility (a NextEra Energy Resources company), you will:
- Design, build, and maintain distributed software and data systems that estimate, simulate, and operate the smart charging of electrified vehicle fleets
- Collaborate with colleagues, customers, and partners
- Write production-quality code in Python
- Deliver new functionality by applying data analysis, optimization, machine learning, and other modeling solutions as appropriate
- Generate actionable insights from data and communicate them effectively to multiple stakeholders
- Use (and grow!) your knowledge of statistics, optimization, control systems, applied mathematics, data analysis, machine learning, data engineering, software engineering, and software development
- Review colleagues’ work before it goes into production, ensuring quality, reliability, and conformance with best practices
- Develop and maintain effective documentation of designs and specifications, observations, analyses and interpretation of results, assignment statements, and incident post-mortems
- Communicate complex technologies to stakeholders who may not be trained in them.
- Contribute to a positive team dynamic across human and technical domains
- At times work within tight timelines, balance multiple projects, and adapt to uncertain objectives
As a Senior Data Scientist, you will also:
- Implement complex and loosely defined problem statements
- Lead cross-team design efforts to reach solutions acceptable to stakeholders and deliver them
- Bring new technical capabilities to the team and ensure their adoption
- Model and mentor productivity
Preferred Qualifications:
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Have experience building or deploying at least one of the following for real-time systems:
- Convex and non-convex optimization
- Machine learning algorithms, applied to time-series datasets
- Model predictive control systems
- Passion for tackling climate change
- Experience solving complex problems such as transportation routing, HVAC control, or grid-integration challenges
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Experience with any of the following:
- Mobility, clean energy, or electric utility spaces
- Electric utility tariffs
- Deregulated energy markets
- Cloud platforms such as GCP or AWS
- Developing microservices
- Advanced degree
Job Overview
This position is responsible for leading the development of algorithms, modeling techniques, and optimization methods that support many aspects of NextEra and FPL business. Employees in this role use knowledge of machine learning, optimization, statistics, and applied mathematics along with abilities in software engineering with a focus on distributed computing and data storage infrastructure (i.e., “Big Data”).
Job Duties & Responsibilities
- Provide thought leadership, set technical strategy, and identify possible uses of data science methods
- Explain methods and results to upper-level executives
- Develop machine learning, optimizations or other modeling solutions
- Oversee related employee work, learn new techniques being developed
- Prepares comprehensive documented observations, analyses and interpretations of results including technical reports, summaries, protocols and quantitative analyses
- Works with big data and distributed computing platforms
- Develops software and contributes to product development
- Performs other job-related duties as assigned
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree
- Experience: 7 years
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s Degree
- Doctoral Degree
Employee Group: Exempt
Employee Type: Full Time
Job Category: Science, Research, and Technology
Organization: NextEra Project Mgmt
Relocation Provided: Yes, if applicable
Where permitted by applicable law, NextEra Energy requires all employees and new hires to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 or be willing to receive the COVID-19 vaccination on or before the first day of employment.
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