Quantitative Commercial Team - Summer Temp
About The Position
FirstLight Power is looking for innovative, collaborative, and team-oriented summer temps to join our talented and dynamic team of individuals working to decarbonize the grid and accelerate the clean energy transformation. The Quantitative Commercial Team temp will join FirstLight’s Commercial Team and support quantitative portfolio management across energy storage and renewable assets. This is a hybrid position, with office time in Burlington, MA 1-2 days per week. Will focus on developing optimization models, automating data pipelines, and generating energy market intelligence that directly informs trading and asset strategy decisions.
Requirements
- Actively enrolled in a graduate program in Data Science, Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Energy Systems, MBA, or related field
- Strong programming experience in Python and SQL, including experience designing and managing relational databases
- Experience building optimization models or conducting quantitative modeling in applied settings
- Proficiency with the Python scientific stack (pandas, NumPy, statsmodels, visualization libraries, etc.)
- Experience leveraging modern AI-assisted development tools to accelerate research and workflow automation
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, ideally including PowerQuery and VBA
- Ability to communicate effectively including simplifying quantitative insights and their impacts to the business for internal and external stakeholders
- Resourceful and comfortable operating in an entrepreneurial environment
- Proactive at asking questions, seeking to understand, and making recommendations for improvement
- Desire to innovate, think of new ideas, and solve bigger problems
- Ability to report to the Burlington, MA office 1-2 times per week
- Actively foster an inclusive environment
- Strong interpersonal and collaborative skills
Nice To Haves
- Experience working with renewable energy assets or understanding of power markets (including capacity, ancillary services, price formation, etc.) is a strong plus
- Desire for exposure to the renewable energy industry, and/or passion for decarbonizing the grid is a must
Responsibilities
- Develop optimization models to inform energy storage and renewable energy asset optimization in day-ahead, real-time, and ancillary services energy markets
- Design and automate data pipelines supporting market analytics, forecasting, and portfolio decision-making
- Conduct quantitative due diligence across power and environmental markets, assessing risk, optionality, and strategic value
- Integrate internal and third-party datasets into long-term forecasting and financial modeling frameworks
- Build strong working relationships across functions and team to maximize value of analytical insights
- Synthesize results of quantitative models and qualitative phenomena to lead decision-making for senior management and other stakeholders
- Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned
- Comply with all FirstLight policies and procedures
Benefits
- Challenging, collegial, and rewarding workplace
- Opportunity to experience a unique and exciting culture
- Equal employment opportunities
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Career Level
Entry Level
