Plus Power is hiring a
Principal Optimization Engineer - Battery Storage in Worldwide

Summary

Plus Power is a leading energy storage developer seeking a Principal Optimization Engineer to build market-leading optimization models for grid-scale battery energy storage systems. The successful candidate will work with the optimization, forecasting, and trading teams to develop high-performance, scalable, and resilient systems.

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional experience as an optimization engineer or data scientist working on problems in wholesale energy markets, preferably bidding renewable energy assets
• Proficient in Python, especially the scientific stack (pandas, scipy, numpy, etc.)
• Expert in at least one Python package for formulating optimization problems (CXVPY, Pyomo, etc.)
• Strong experience and knowledge with commercial/open-source numerical optimization solver such as Gurobi, Cplex and GLPK. Strong understanding of timeseries data and data analysis techniques

Responsibilities

• Work with Plus Power’s optimization, forecasting and trading teams to build market leading optimization models for bidding assets into wholesale energy markets
• Design, develop and test production-ready optimization models
• Design and implement cutting edge trading strategies for day-ahead and real-time markets

Benefits

• Highly competitive total compensation from one of North America’s leading energy storage developers, owners and operators
• Flexible, work from home or hybrid work from Plus Power’s offices in San Francisco, Houston, Chicago, Seattle, and Palm Beach