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Original Job Post

Uplight · 5 days ago

Senior Data Scientist, Forecasting

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$115K/yr - $145K/yr

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Responsibilities

Design, implement, and maintain the algorithms for M&V and forecasting.

Perform ad-hoc analysis on Uplight’s data to gain insights and guide decisions.

Improve scalability of forecasting and M&V jobs by optimizing code.

Work with other data/software/SRE engineers to troubleshoot production problems and respond to customer queries.

Educate the team members of the data science work, including the algorithms for M&V and time-series forecasting.

Mentor junior data scientists and software engineers.

Gather and analyze requirements and convert functional requirements into concrete technical tasks and be able to provide consistent and reasonable effort estimates on an ongoing basis.

Work effectively with the engineering teams distributed globally to understand project requirements, identify opportunities for collaboration, and articulate project delivery risks in advance.

Communicate effectively across business to team leads, subject matter experts, leadership, clients and other stakeholders.

Qualification

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Machine learningPythonForecasting modelsParallelization frameworkRDSSQLNoSQL databasesProgramming skillsDistributed infrastructureCommunicationCope with changeEnergy IndustryElectricityDemand ResponseProduction CodebaseAgile TeamContainerizationDockerKubernetes

Required

Prior experience in the energy industry, especially in electricity and demand response, is preferred.

Hands-on experience in building forecasting models is required.

Experience in Python data science stack, e.g. numpy, scipy, pandas, and scikit-learn.

Experience in some parallelization framework (pyspark or Dask) is required.

Experience with RDS and SQL is required. Experience with NoSQL databases is a plus.

Excellent communication skills, ability to explain complex technical topics to both technical and non-technical audiences highlighting pros, cons, estimated timelines and risks associated for prioritization, decision making and risk mitigation.

Ability to cope with and thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment with evolving project requirements.

Good programming skills and the ability to navigate a distributed infrastructure are required.

Preferred

Experience in working with production codebase

Experience working in an agile team

Experience using containerization (e.g. Docker) and Kubernetes

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women, marginalized genders and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Uplight we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Benefits

401k Match

Medical, vision, and dental insurance

Monthly wellness stipend

Peer to peer recognition program

Management by objectives bonus plan

Innovative flexible time off policy

Exceptionally collaborative and cool office spaces

8 weeks of paid parental leave, with an extra 2 weeks of full-pay part-time work for a smoother transition for parents

Company

Uplight

Glassdoor

3.5

Uplight provides end-to-end customer-centric technology solutions.

Founded in 2019

Boulder, Colorado, USA

201-500 employees

https://uplight.com/

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