ENGINEERING
Analytics Engineer
The Role
Analytics is the backbone of an efficient distributed energy platform. Initially, this position will couple data engineering work with data science projects to build out a reusable platform for analytical work. You are excited about designing and building the data platform to enable data science at Voltus. Your primary focus will be on our energy and financial data, leveraging your deep understanding of optimization, simulation, modeling, and statistics to solve problems including time series forecasting, anomaly detection, and event prediction. You are bright, gritty, and good, and you want to work with others like you.
Voltus is a remote first organization.
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What you will do
- Create and support real-time data pipelines and querying capabilities
- Implement forecasting and optimization models for operation and valuation of distributed energy resources
- With an eye towards the future, you will drive our engineering platform to enable data science
What skills you have
- Comfortable in the pydata ecosystem, especially pandas
- Time series forecasting and advanced statistical techniques
- Knowledge of wholesale electricity markets is a plus
What is important to us
- An eye for detail; for example, noticing and bubbling up data quality issues
- Smart but humble with a bias for action
- Creative, out of the box thinking
- Work independently and thoughtfully allocate time to projects
Back End Engineer
The Role
Voltus is looking for an experienced backend engineer to help us transform a diverse network of distributed energy resources into reliable power plants. The thought of building out integrations with different components of the North American electric grid is exciting. You know how to write a beautiful API – and you know how to shim an ugly one. Anyone can integrate to a webhook, but it takes a pro to ingest data over SCADA. Like all of your Voltus teammates, you are bright, gritty, and good.
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Key Responsibilities:
- Develop the application and API layers for customer-facing and internal tools to process our ever-growing pile of electricity demand data and market intelligence
- Build creative shims to legacy systems – everyone loves a clean API, but not everyone can scrape an ActiveX application from 1997
- Process, clean, validate, and present data from sensor to customer dashboard in real-time (no sweat!)
- How can we make a few dozen generators, spread over a few hundred square miles and connected by cell modem, behave like a single powerplant with a ten-minute start time? Help solve this and other crazy highly reliable infrastructure problems
Technologies we use:
- Python, Javascript, Go, Lua
- Postgres, Redis, S3, Kafka, InfluxDB
- AWS, Docker
- React, Flask, Scrapy
- Pandas, NumPy
Please email your interest to engineering+jobs@voltus.co.
Data Engineer
The Role
The Data Team is chartered with the mission of building robust platforms that enable data-driven insights. Team members have a hand in shaping all things data: from managing our internal storage systems to shepherding the continuous flow of backbone data assets such as real-time telemetry and financial forecast models. They say data is the new oil… at Voltus, data is fueling our way towards a more energy efficient future!
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Responsibilities
- Providing a suite of data-centric services core to strategic products
- Designing data integrations and pipelines, and evaluating solutions that facilitate data quality and lineage
- Spotting opportunities and patterns to automate repeatable processes
- Championing robust scalable systems that connect data science needs with infrastructure and full-stack technology capabilities
- Collecting, centralizing, and enabling access to data assets
You might …
- Have a solid fluency with modern programming languages (We use Python and Go)
- Have a deep understanding of SQL database design and queries
- Have experience or interest in scaling data-intensive pipelines and systems
- Have opinions on approaches and implementations of data warehouse architectures and flows
- Be eager to experiment with time-series forecasting models that drive concrete measurable outcomes
- Have experience productionizing workflow platforms such as Airflow, Argo, or Luigi
- Be excited about collaborating with stakeholders from multiple disciplines
If you are bright, gritty and good, please email your interest to engineering+jobs@voltus.co with the job title in the subject line.
Data Scientist
The Role
Translating data into decisions is at the core of the Data Science initiative at Voltus. You are comfortable writing Python for analytics, but you take pride in the fact that you can write production code. You are scrappy, finding solutions for data you do not have or inventing methods of accessing data before proper pipelines have been built out. You will have an opportunity to showcase your software prowess, statistical modeling and business acumen as we respond to critical business questions. You are bright, gritty, and good, and you want to work with others like you.
Voltus is a remote first organization.
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What you will do
- Work with stakeholders to take a vague problem statement, refine the scope of the analysis, and use the results to drive business decisions
- Write reproducible analysis merging and melting from a variety of different data stores
- Work with the Data Team to identify datasets, build data pipelines and translate your ad-hoc analysis into production systems
- With an eye towards the future, you will drive our engineering platform to enable data science
What skills you have
- Comfortable in the pydata ecosystem
- Ability to translate business needs into analytical frameworks
- Experience with A/B testing, statistical hypothesis testings
What is important to us
- Tenacity, drive and dedication to bring analysis from a back of the envelope calculation to a polished, well thought out decision
- Smart but humble with a bias for action
- Creative, out of the box thinking
- Work independently and thoughtfully allocate time to projects
Full Stack Engineer
The Role
Voltus is looking for a Full Stack Engineer to build applications and services that leverage our growing stash of energy data. You’re very comfortable writing a React app and implementing the API that serves it. You’re also happy writing the backend service that feeds the API. You can implement beautiful customer-facing product and ugly-functional internal tools and have the judgment to know which to build when. You are bright, gritty, and good, and you want to work with others like you.
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Key Responsibilities
- Develop the application and API layers for customer-facing and internal tools to process and understand our ever-growing pile of electricity demand data and market intelligence
- Help build the outermost layer of the Voltus network, interfacing to a wide variety of electric industry partners
- Build reusable frontend components and thoughtful APIs
- Implement and follow engineering best practices, including unit tests and continuous integration
- Work independently and thoughtfully allocate time among projects
Technologies you’re an expert in:
React, Javascript, ES2015+, SCSS/LESS, Webpack, Flask/Django
Some technologies we use:
- Python, Javascript, Go, Rust
- Postgres, Redis, S3, Kafka, InfluxDB
- AWS, Docker, Nomad, Terraform
- React, Flask, Scrapy
Please email your interest to engineering+jobs@voltus.co.
Product Backend Engineer
The Role
Voltus is looking for an experienced backend engineer to help us bring the next generation of Voltus product to life. You’ll build tools that help us bring our growing stash of energy data to life, tools that let us better communicate with our customers, and tools that allow our sales team to make the best possible proposals, to just name a few. You’ll work closely with our Product team to define and scope projects, and you’ll work closely with our frontend engineers and designers to make our applications come to life. You’re interested in diving into the detailed world of the energy industry and would jump at the opportunity to turn that knowledge into beautiful, performant applications. You are bright, gritty, and good, and you want to work with others like you.
This job is remote, you can work from anywhere.
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What you will do
- Write server-side code in Python and Go to process and serve our ever growing pile of electricity demand data and market intelligence.
- Work collaboratively with the Product team and frontend engineers to scope project requirements, and create project plans.
- Build robust, reliable, and performant consumer facing services.
- Contribute to shared tooling and infrastructure.
- Work independently and thoughtfully allocate time among projects.
What is important to us
- Self initiated and curious, someone who is always looking for ways to improve our applications and infrastructure.
- Can work independently and thoughtfully allocate time among projects.
- Communicates well with others, especially important in a remote team.
- Interested in building positive and welcoming engineering culture.
- Cares about the environmental impact of reduced energy use.
- Interested in learning more about the energy industry.
- Experience working in an agile, team environment.
What is not important to us
- Having a CS or engineering degree
- Having lots of github contributions
Some technologies we use
- Python, Go, Javascript
- Flask, Goa, gRPC, React
- Postgres, Redis, S3, Kafka, InfluxDB
- AWS, Docker, Nomad, Terraform
Please email your interest to engineering+jobs@voltus.co
Product Designer
The Role
Fight the climate crisis with Voltus.
Voltus creates virtual power plants that meet the world’s changing energy needs, while using less energy. This will help the US move to a greener, more sustainable grid. We are looking for a product designer to move that mission forward.
At Voltus you will work on customer-facing products that make our customers’ lives easier while they get paid for using less energy.You will also help create tools that allow our team of energy experts manage complex distributed resources in wholesale energy markets. You will be responsible for contributing to the overall design process from research to concept, design development, and delivery of clear and compelling visuals that get the job done. You will work within cross functional teams of product managers and developers to deliver great experiences to our users.
You have experience designing useful tools that bring clarity to complex information and data sets. You can help define our design strategy and big thinking about our product suite, but still sweat the nitty gritty of each feature. You are excited to help us refine our existing products, mature our budding design system, and grow design culture at Voltus. You are bright, gritty, and good, and you want to work with others like you.
This job is remote, you can work from anywhere.
To apply, email engineering+jobs@voltus.co with ‘Product Designer’ in the subject line.
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What you will do
- Design features and products for our growing energy toolset, using layout, hierarchy, UX best practices.
- Collaborate with the Engineering and Product teams, as well as other stakeholders.
- Facilitate discussion around your work and communicate purpose of design decisions throughout product development lifecycle.
- Verify and improve on designs through reviews, validations, and formal usability testing with end users.
- Participate in user research.
What is important to us
- Self initiated and curious, someone who is always looking for ways to improve our products and design workflow.
- Experience creating and shipping new products as well as refining existing products.
- Can work independently and thoughtfully allocate time among projects.
- Communicates well with others, especially important in a remote team.
- Interested in building positive and welcoming team culture.
- Cares about the environmental impact of reduced energy use.
- Interested in learning more about the energy industry.
- Experience working in an agile, team environment.
Please e-mail your interest to engineering+jobs@voltus.co.