Renew Home

Staff Engineer, Algorithms

Renew Home

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $170,000 - $220,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

AirflowAmazon RedshiftApacheAWSCloudETLGoogle Cloud PlatformMySQLNumpyOraclePostgresPythonPyTorchScikit-LearnSQLTensorflow

About the role

  • Optimize load profiles across multiple classes of devices including thermostats, home batteries, and EVs.
  • Develop and productionize algorithms and models using machine learning and statistical techniques.
  • Analyze diverse datasets such as device temperature, energy consumption, user interactions, grid carbon emissions, weather, and energy markets to inform product direction and algorithm design.
  • Show significant ownership of the algorithms team’s software architecture.
  • Collaborate with Product, Product Design/UX, Operations, and Engineering to define and deliver impactful features.
  • Drive software projects independently over multi-week timeframes.
  • Provide technical leadership in small engineering groups.
  • Help clarify ambiguous problems and shape solutions that balance technical feasibility and business needs.
  • Design, implement, and maintain systems and features, including integration points with other teams and external platforms.
  • Work across our stack: Python, PostgreSQL, Prefect, AWS/GCP (CDK, ECS/EKS, RDS, Redshift, S3, etc.), Apache, Git, and Jira.
  • Uphold high standards in code quality, testing, security, observability, and operational excellence.
  • Foster a collaborative and efficient engineering culture, reducing complexity and improving development processes.

Requirements

  • Significant experience developing and evaluating algorithms and models in production environments (typically 6+ years).
  • Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science—or equivalent professional experience.
  • Proficiency in Python for algorithm-focused software development.
  • Strong SQL skills and experience with databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, or Redshift.
  • Experience leading the design of complex, scalable software systems.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity and collaboratively define clear problem statements and solutions at a system level.
  • Familiarity with the full software development lifecycle, including design, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, and iteration.
  • Solid foundation in statistics, including inference, simulation, and optimization.
  • Hands-on experience developing machine learning or statistical models.
  • Bonus Experience
  • Scalable distributed data processing.
  • Serverless and cloud-native tools such as AWS Lambda, GCP Pub/Sub.
  • Energy industry knowledge or experience with energy markets.
  • Understanding of building energy systems physics.
  • Experience with smart energy devices such as thermostats, EVs, solar, batteries, and water heaters.
  • Data pipeline development using Prefect, Airflow, or similar ETL/ELT tools.
  • Familiarity with AI/ML frameworks like Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Prophet, Numpy, and Jupyter.
Benefits
  • A full-time position, with a competitive salary based on experience.
  • Fully remote work environment with home office set-up allowance.
  • Real and lived work-life balance - Company perks include no pre-set vacation limits (with a top-down culture of taking meaningful PTO every year!), parental leave benefits, and a corporate value of working sustainably and putting families first.
  • Competitive benefits package that includes numerous health and wellness benefits.
  • 401(k) plan, with employer contributions to the same.
  • Opportunity to work with amazing people who are passionate about their mission, thriving in a fully-remote work environment, and learning and growing every day.

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Hard skills
PythonSQLmachine learningstatistical modelsalgorithmsdata processingstatisticsdata pipeline developmentsoftware development lifecycleproblem-solving
Soft skills
technical leadershipcollaborationattention to detailnavigating ambiguitydefining problem statementsshaping solutionsownershipfostering engineering culturereducing complexityimproving development processes
Certifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer ScienceMaster’s degree in Computer Science