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Date: May 27, 2023
Location(s): St. Paul, MN, US, 55107
Company: NextEra Energy
Requisition ID: 70931
NextEra Analytics provides renewable energy consulting services using industry-leading scientific analysis. As a NextEra Energy Resources company, the world's largest generator of renewable energy from the wind and sun, we thrive on solving the toughest problems facing the energy industry, and creating innovative forecasting and optimization solutions that lead the way into the next era of energy. Do you want to help accelerate the transition to low-cost sustainable energy? Join our world-class team today!
ovative forecasting and optimization solutions that lead the way into the next era of energy.
Position Specific Description
NextEra Analytics is the optimization and analytics team for the world’s largest renewable energy generator. We are currently seeking a Market Quantitative Engineer for our Market Products team. This team designs, develops and benchmarks effective electricity market trading and plant dispatch strategies for utility-scale and C&I customers. We are an algorithmic product team that implements automated software solutions for monetizing energy storage, hybrid aggregations, and other market participation models through mastery of market rules and regulations, forecasting of price and other market conditions, and optimizing bidding and dispatch behavior. This team has proven success and is core to the NextEra 360 Energy Optimization Platform. There is massive opportunity for career growth and company-wide visibility of contributions in this role. In this role, you will be interacting with asset managers, schedulers, facility operators, and risk managers to develop price and power availability forecast models. You will leverage your expertise in operations research and electricity market fundamentals to optimize trade support products and assess quality through performance benchmarking. Solid quantitative and object-oriented programming expertise is strongly sought to build new forecasting capabilities. Strong soft skills and passion to innovate in our changing electricity market landscape is a plus. There are Professional, Senior and Principal level roles for this position.
Job Overview
This position is responsible for designing, developing, and benchmarking effective electricity market trading and plant dispatch strategies for utility-scale and Commercial-and-Industrial customers. Employees in this role leverage knowledge and experience in mathematical programming, predictive analytics, power systems engineering, and electricity spot market design along with the capability to software engineer the solution to leverage software platform technologies including cloud computing, distributed computing, numerical solver methods, and data storage infrastructures.
Job Duties & Responsibilities
- Develops algorithmic product solutions for physical or virtual assets (or portfolio of assets)
- Implements production grade mathematical code with performance benchmarking and unit testing to verify and validate outcomes
- Determines key performance indicators for algorithmic products and contributes to monitoring and iterative product improvement
- Prepares code documentation, technical reports, quantitative analyses, and presentation material for internal and external use
- Supports collaborations in cross-functional workstreams
- Performs other job-related duties as assigned
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Equivalent Experience
- Experience: 2+ years
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's Degree
Employee Group: Exempt
Employee Type: Full Time
Job Category: Science, Research, and Technology
Organization: NextEra Analytics Inc
Relocation Provided: Yes, if applicable
Where permitted by applicable law, NextEra Energy requires all employees and new hires to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 or be willing to receive the COVID-19 vaccination on or before the first day of employment.
NextEra Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, age, national origin, religion, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetics, disability, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.
NextEra Energy provides reasonable accommodation in its application and selection process for qualified individuals, including accommodations related to compliance with conditional job offer requirements, consistent with federal, state, and local laws. Supporting medical or religious documentation will be required where applicable and permitted by applicable law. To request a reasonable accommodation, please send an e-mail to recruiting-coordinator.sharedmailbox@nexteraenergy.com, providing your name, telephone number and the best time for us to reach you. Alternatively, you may call 1-844-694-4748. Please do not use this line to inquire about your application status.
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