Data Scientist

Neara • New York, NY

20d • $160,000 - $190,000

About The Position

As a Data Scientist, you will analyze a rich array of real-world data to inform our digital twin model of the electric grid, including topography, LIDAR, imagery, vegetation, structural loading, and electrical connectivity. Your work will drive product direction with high visibility, highlight grid expansion opportunities, identify aging and risky infrastructure, and help our customers understand where to build and invest. Working alongside ML Engineers and product-facing engineering teams, your ideas will ultimately take shape as new product features that expand what Neara is capable of doing, and as new infrastructure buildouts for the energy grid itself.

Requirements

• A data scientist, ML scientist, data engineer, or similar with 3-6 years of experience at technical, data-driven companies operating in complex environments.
• Demonstrated experience with AI and Machine Learning and a keen intuition for data modeling.
• Experience translating your models into both experiments and deployable software.
• Proficiency in data storage and ETL technologies, such as Parquet, Databricks, Snowflake, PostgreSQL, Spark, and DynamoDB.
• Comfort working in an AWS cloud environment.
• Excellent problem-solving skills as applied to new domains.
• Ability to work effectively asynchronously and cross-functionally on novel, cutting-edge problems.
• Ability to own problems and proactively approach challenges.

Nice To Haves

• Geospatial data or power grid experience are a plus.
• You have a strong intuition for data with good communication skills and experience sharing your findings with customers and senior leaders.
• Prior experience in the energy industry is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Model accurate digital twin electric networks from imperfect data using AI, deep learning, and classical ML algorithms.
• Surface meaningful analytics and metrics such as wildfire risk that help guide customer buildout of electrical infrastructure.
• Advise the company on what our data says and use that understanding to inform Neara’s strategy.
• Conduct experiments and A/B tests to improve our modeling of the grid.
• QA and improve our predictive models; identify data issues such as distribution drift, overfitting, or test set leakage.
• Craft scalable data pipelines to work with a variety of data sources, including LiDAR, aerial photography, photogrammetry and GIS.
• Mentor others in best practices for model training, data analytics, and building data-driven products.

Benefits

• We offer a highly competitive compensation package with a significant equity component, ensuring you are a true stakeholder in our mission and benefit directly from the company’s rapid global scale.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed