Sr Data Engineer

About Sunairio

As the world transitions to renewable energy, the global economy will become more dependent on weather than at any point since the Industrial Revolution. And due to climate change, the weather that our future economy is tied to will be drastically different from the weather we’ve historically experienced. This means that managing weather-based risk--and weather-based variability--is the number #1 challenge facing the energy grid.

Sunairio’s mission is to provide the highest-fidelity intelligence into energy and grid risks by translating the highest-resolution datasets of weather and climate variability into commercially-useful applications. We curate and generate scientifically-validated, model-consistent, localized historical climate data and future climate simulations which can be easily integrated into existing grid modeling workflows and widely used energy modeling tools. Sunairio also provides a suite of energy and energy market simulations (at both the asset and grid-level) that covers the existing renewables fleet and major RTO/ISO regions. We work with renewable energy project owners, storage operators, energy buyers, energy suppliers, portfolio managers, traders, and utilities to deliver actionable insights into the hardest energy problems.

Please include a cover letter with your application. Applications without cover letters will not be considered.

Key Responsibilities

The Senior Data Engineer will be responsible for:

• Coding, testing, deploying, orchestrating, monitoring, documenting and troubleshooting cloud-based data engineering processing and associated automation in accordance with best practices and security standards throughout the development lifecycle

• Scaling machine learning models and simulations of weather, energy resources, energy market prices, and energy sector environmental emissions, with an immediate focus on North American electricity markets

• Working closely with data scientists, data architects and business partners to identify, capture, collect, and format data from external sources, internal systems, and the data lakehouse to extract features of interest

• Building and maintaining flexible data pipelines for external data that feeds ML models

• Building continuous monitoring of infrastructure and model performance

• Building and supporting data APIs to deliver insights derived from Sunairio’s simulations, predictions, and data

What We're Looking For

• A passion for building new solutions that drive the energy transition

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with a proven ability to build production-level data-centric products

• Strong SQL and data warehousing knowledge; PostgreSQL preferred

• Experience building, maintaining, and developing with data lakes

• Experience building big data applications in Amazon Web Services (AWS)

• Experience with the Python scientific computing environment (Pandas/Numpy/SciPy) 

• B.S. or higher degree in Economics, Finance, Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, an engineering discipline, a related field, or equivalent professional experience

• A creative problem-solver with outstanding communication skills and a commitment to technical excellence

• Intellectual curiosity

What We Offer

• The opportunity to join an industry-disrupting startup on the ground floor–with significant equity compensation

• The focus to work on innovative solutions to problems of critical importance

• A truly collaborative team environment

• The ability to help shape company culture

• Competitive salary and incentive-based compensation plan

• “Platinum” health insurance plan

• 401(k) with company match

• Flexible vacation policy

• Amazing swag