Data Scientist, Modelling
Octopus Energy
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • United Kingdom
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About the role
- Research and develop open-source models to help decarbonise the energy system
- Build and extend models, analyse data, and build data pipelines in Python
- Work with unique energy datasets including smart meter data at national scale and data from large-scale randomised control trials
- Maintain and improve our published models and data products
- Work alongside economists, policy experts, and other data scientists, to shape research questions and modelling approaches, and to drive real-world policy and system change
- Contribute to open-source tools, open data, and our published research
- Present your work internally and at conferences and events
Requirements
- Understanding of energy systems, including areas such as electricity grids, transmission and distribution, balancing supply and demand, or energy markets
- Experience building quantitative models to solve real-world problems (e.g. optimisation, simulation, statistical, or machine learning models)
- Comfortable working with messy, real-world data at scale (e.g. geospatial or household data)
- Fluency in Python
- Software development practices (e.g. git, testing, code review)
- Proactive curiosity: you independently research unfamiliar topics, think about the wider strategic context of your work, and care about real-world impact
- Nice to have
- - Experience with open-source energy systems modelling frameworks (e.g. PyPSA, Calliope)
- - Familiarity with demand flexibility, electrification of heating and transport, or energy demand data such as smart meter data
- - Understanding of how energy systems and data differ across countries
- - SQL and experience with large-scale or cloud-based data tools (e.g. GCP, BigQuery, dbt)
- - Experience deploying and monitoring models in production
- - Experience contributing to open-source projects or publishing research
Benefits
- 💰 Wondering what the salary for this role is? Just ask us! On a call with one of our recruiters it's something we always cover as we genuinely want to match your experience with the correct salary. The reason why we don't advertise is because we honestly have a degree of flexibility and would never want salary to be a reason why someone doesn't apply to Octopus - what's more important to us is finding the right octofit!
- 🎉 Octopus Energy Group is a unique culture. An organisation where people learn, decide, and build quicker. Where people work with autonomy, alongside a wide range of amazing co-owners, on projects that break new ground. We want your hard work to be rewarded with perks you actually care about! We were recently named the UK's top company to work for, and we ranked in the top ten in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2024. Our Group CEO, Greg has recorded a podcast about our culture and how we empower our people. We’ve also been placed in the top 10 companies for senior leadership
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Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
Pythonquantitative modelsoptimisationsimulationstatistical modelsmachine learning modelsSQLdata pipelinesopen-source energy systems modelling frameworksdata analysis
Soft Skills
proactive curiosityindependent researchstrategic thinkingreal-world impact