Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of scientifically rigorous analytics solutions leveraging Power Factors' extensive operational data
- Collaborate closely with software development teams, product management, and technically sophisticated customers to translate real-world operational challenges into robust analytical solutions
- Identify, evaluate, and prioritize high-impact advanced analytics opportunities focused on BESS performance, health, and revenue optimization
- Lead the development of advanced data science solutions from concept through production deployment
- Engage directly with technically sophisticated customers to explain analytical methods, assumptions, and results with clarity and precision
- Serve as an internal BESS subject matter expert, supporting product, sales, and customer success teams with domain guidance
- Stay current with advances in battery science, electrochemical modeling, grid storage economics, and ML for energy systems
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in the energy industry, with a strong emphasis on utility-scale battery energy storage systems
- Deep, hands‑on understanding of BESS operation, performance, state‑of‑charge and state‑of‑health estimation, thermal management, degradation mechanisms, and lifecycle management
- Demonstrated experience working with large-scale operational BESS datasets, including BMS telemetry, SCADA, event logs, cycle data, and high-frequency time series
- Proven experience developing analytical solutions used by asset owners, operators, integrators, or OEM‑adjacent organizations to support operational and strategic decision‑making
- Proficiency in Python and modern data science libraries (pandas, NumPy, scikit‑learn, TensorFlow / PyTorch, etc.)
- Strong grounding in statistics, machine learning, and applied AI, with demonstrated real‑world deployment experience
- Experience with time‑series analysis, signal processing, anomaly detection, forecasting, and predictive modeling in industrial or electrochemical contexts
- Experience with version control (Git) and collaborative software development practices
- Ability to clearly communicate complex analytical concepts, assumptions, and results to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders
- Experience working closely with software engineering teams in production environments (APIs, services, deployment pipelines)
- Proven ability to translate operational challenges and customer needs into analytically sound and implementable solutions
- High degree of autonomy and ownership in complex, technically ambiguous problem spaces
- Strong scientific rigor, intellectual curiosity, and attention to detail
- Comfort working on long‑horizon, technically demanding problems where analytical quality and robustness are critical
Core Competencies
Demonstrates expertise in Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) operations, advanced analytics, and data science methodologies, with a strong ability to communicate complex concepts to diverse stakeholders. Proven track record in developing analytical solutions that drive operational and strategic decision‑making in the energy sector.
Tools & Technologies
- BMS Telemetry
- SCADA
- Version Control (Git)
- APIs
- Deployment Pipelines