Techno-Economic Advisor, Senior

Booz Allen Hamilton•Washington, DC

13d•$77,600 - $176,000•Onsite

About The Position

Immerse yourself in cutting-edge technologies while serving as a senior strategic technical advisor and subject matter expert to the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) and other energy clients. As a techno-economic analysis (TEA) expert on our team, you will develop and implement tools to assess next-generation energy technologies as well as innovative strategies across multiple sectors and program areas. You will define how TEA is applied across emerging technology programs, helping to evaluate broad market impacts and technology performance while providing clients with actionable insights to support the development and deployment of advanced technologies. Working across technologies ranging from early-stage concepts to pilot and demonstration-scale systems, you will evaluate the engineering, cost, scale-up, and market factors that determine whether a technology can ultimately compete at commercial scale. You will build and review bottom-up cost models, establish cost and performance targets, identify critical sensitivities and uncertainties, and determine which technical improvements offer the greatest potential economic impact. Supporting a fast-paced agency, you’ll need to exercise judgement in selecting the appropriate level of analytical rigor, ranging from rapid, directional assessments to detailed, decision-grade techno-economic analyses. Your work will extend across areas such as mining, transportation, materials, energy generation and distribution, and manufacturing, supporting innovative technologies in energy systems, fuels, chemicals, ores, and more. You will model impacts, identify opportunities for significant cost and performance improvements, and support strategic R&D investments that accelerate technology commercialization. Join our team and help guide the energy sector toward scalable solutions with positive system-wide impacts.

Requirements

7+ years of experience in TEA, cost engineering, or technology commercialization
Experience developing bottom-up cost models using Excel, and applying cost estimation and sensitivity analysis methodologies
Experience sourcing and validating data from industry, academia, and government environments, and integrating industry benchmarks, supply chain data, and performance metrics into decision analyses
Ability to develop TEA frameworks to inform technology development, scale-up, and commercialization across various technologies and sectors
Ability to work at both the system-level and detailed component-level across multiple technologies
Ability to tailor modeling approaches across varying levels of detail and complexity, from rapid screening models to detailed TEA
Ability to quickly identify key cost and performance drivers, major uncertainties, and assumptions most likely to change a technology’s economic outlook
Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust or Suitability/Fitness determination based on client requirements
Bachelor's degree in a STEM field

Nice To Haves

Experience translating engineering designs, process flows, performance assumptions, and bills of materials into CapEx or OpEx and unit-cost estimates
Experience assessing early-stage technologies with incomplete data, and developing defensible assumptions, proxies, and bounds to support directional decision-making
Experience distinguishing and translating system boundaries, and operating costs within energy research contexts
Experience preparing high-quality reports and presentations for internal and external stakeholders
Knowledge of energy markets, supply chains, and commercialization pathways
Ability to translate TEA research and results clearly and succinctly to both experts and non-experts with academic and industrial backgrounds
Possession of excellent organizational and client service skills
Possession of excellent analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills
Master's degree in Finance, Business, Economics, Engineering, or a related technical field

Responsibilities

Develop and implement tools to assess next-generation energy technologies and innovative strategies.
Define how TEA is applied across emerging technology programs.
Evaluate broad market impacts and technology performance.
Provide clients with actionable insights to support the development and deployment of advanced technologies.
Evaluate engineering, cost, scale-up, and market factors for technologies.
Build and review bottom-up cost models.
Establish cost and performance targets.
Identify critical sensitivities and uncertainties.
Determine which technical improvements offer the greatest potential economic impact.
Exercise judgment in selecting the appropriate level of analytical rigor.
Model impacts, identify opportunities for cost and performance improvements.
Support strategic R&D investments that accelerate technology commercialization.