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Data Scientist - Grid Modeling and Methodology
About Electricity Maps
Electricity Maps is an API platform providing real-time and predictive electricity signals allowing any device to reduce their cost and emissions by informing them about the best time to consume electricity.
We’re, for example, used by Google to change the time and location of their datacenter energy usage, or by Samsung devices in their SmartThings Energy App (read more about our customer stories here). We recently raised €5M to accelerate our growth and are backed by world-class investors with experience from Unity, Zendesk, Datadog, Hugging Face, DocuSign and more. The role is based in Copenhagen, one of the most live-able cities in the world.
The role
Electricity Maps aims to become the information layer for the world’s electricity system. We’re looking for a Data Scientist to help us build the best digital representation of the electricity system worldwide. You’ll be a key part of our effort to expand our product to cover new geographical regions, while at the same time maintaining high data quality and scientific standards. You will be a member of our Grid Modeling & Methodology team and report to the CTO.
You will:
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Improve the quality and coverage of our data by implementing quality checks and estimation models.
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Increase the trustworthiness of our data by ensuring that we stay up-to-date with developments in the field.
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Explore better modeling techniques to help move us closer to the best digital representation of the grid.
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Promote transparency by working with the community and publicly documenting our methodology.
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Promote optimisation, testing and tooling for our processing pipelines.
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Collaborate with engineers to build scalable systems.
To be successful in this role, you:
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Have a strong theoretical understanding of statistics/probability theory/optimisation.
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Have experience writing production code.
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Are detail-oriented and organized.
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Thrive in an environment that provides autonomy, that supports your individual growth with interesting tasks.
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Possess a pragmatic and honest communication style.
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Want to work with a team with a variety of backgrounds and skill sets.
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Bonus: have experience working with the energy sector.
If you don't check all the boxes above but you like the position, please apply because we value experience in many different ways.
Compensation & Benefits:
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Salary: 48500 DKK/month depending on experience
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Stock options
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6 weeks of paid holidays
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Paid lunch when working from the office
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Health insurance and insurance covering loss of ability to work
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Parental leave
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A huge opportunity for career growth as you’ll help shape a market-defining product
What’s the interview process like?
It starts the same for every candidate: getting to know each during a short intro talk where we will discuss practicalities, cultural fit/add and answer any first questions you might have. Next steps can vary by role, but will include an interview with a focus on the technical requirements for the role, an interview with a focus on team fit/add and cultural fit/add and a founder interview. Other assessments can be part of the process (e.g. a coding interview for an engineer, a portfolio review for a designer, deeper experience meetings for other roles). We prioritize transparency and honesty throughout the process.
About Electricity Maps
Join us in building tech products that empower millions of people around the world to understand and reduce their carbon footprint.
Your life’s work should be something that matters.
Our mission
We're on a mission to enable data-driven decarbonization of the electricity grid. Driven by the urgent need to get rid of all fossil fuels, the world is in the midst of the most profound transformation in humankind's history. We envision a world where energy is provided by fossil-free electricity, every second of the year.
What we do
We help build next generation sustainable products by providing companies with real- time and predictive electricity signals that unlock smarter electricity use to save carbon and costs. To do that, we organize the world's electricity information, and use it to drive the transition toward a truly decarbonized electricity system.
What we value
Scientific integrity: Our allegiance is to the physical world, which we explore and understand through scientific reasoning. We stay honest about what we don't know, and evolve our views when presented with new evidence.
Kind humans: We take collective responsibility for our failures and successes, and don't place blame on individuals. We look out for each other, are well-intentioned and treat people within and beyond our team as the nice humans they are.
Autonomy: We trust each other and strive to create an environment where everyone is empowered to do their best, most focused work. We help each other by providing the support needed to succeed, and attempt to broadly share context to enable autonomous decisions.
Pragmatic idealism: We’re here to fix climate change, but we also acknowledge that it won’t be fixed overnight. We therefore prioritize pragmatic solutions that can be implemented here and now. We strive to be a driver of positive change and stay optimistic about the future, trusting that humanity will overcome the challenge.
What we offer
Other than providing the possibility of working every day to help save the planet, we offer six weeks paid time off, lunch at the office and leadership coaching. We work in one of the most livable cities in the world, where we have an international team with english as the office language. We belive that sustainability includes securing the mental well-being of other humans. One of the ways we do so is by allowing for flexible
working hours, as well as having deep work days on Tuesdays and Thursdays. We have a
fun team activity once a month and go on offsites twice a year to reconnect and align.
We need you
Electricity Maps is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. You are welcome at Electricity Maps for who you are, no matter your background or what you look like.
We believe that it’s in our differences that we will find the power to solve one of the biggest issues of our time. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, or age.