Market Optimization Engineer

Grid Beyond are a green tech energy scale-up company, with big plans to disrupt the energy sector on a relentless course to achieve our vision of delivering a global zero carbon future. With well-established roots in the demand side response space, we have expanded our commercial strategical thinking and product portfolio to enable us to break new global market barriers.

We do this by living our Mission, leveraging AI to innovate and collaborate with our customers creating optimal value from renewable energy generation, demand and storage to deliver a zero-carbon future.

Over the last 24 months, we have doubled the number of people that work with us and expanded our business operations over an international landscape. With people working in Ireland, UK, US, Japan, and Australia-we are company that understands the importance of connection and thrive on the purpose of our work. We are proud to contribute to a greener, cleaner world for everyone to live in.

The following position will support Grid Beyond’s Trading Operations (NOC) team and will help Grid Beyond provide its customers with a route to market to monetize flexibility and generation in all available energy markets and ancillary services. The role involves providing support and continuity with our clients and our market optimization team, requiring successful candidates to be involved in optimization and execution of trading strategies while ensuring all customer sites are responding to grid services.

Successful candidates will also be involved in development of solutions, tools and reports whilst providing ongoing analysis of markets. This is a Mon-Fri position covering the evening peaks in Texas enabling Grid Beyond to cover ancillary and energy markets in CAISO, ERCOT, MISO & PJM. There will also be additional support required for Japan/Australian markets as well as Ireland and UK.

This role is a great opportunity for a candidate to learn and develop understanding in how Energy markets work across the globe. The majority of the role will be US focused.

• Support the NOC in monitoring of all our US customers and some key customers in Japan/Australia
• Ensuring we are meeting SLAs with customers in terms of uptime & ticket resolution
• Optimizing our portfolio in ancillary services (frequency, reserve) and energy markets.
• Analyzing market dynamics, defining short term trading strategies. Trade execution and both financial and physical management of our asset’s positions
• Support and drive Grid Beyond’s entry into new ancillary services and power markets. Understand market structure, analyze potential opportunities and definition and execution of trading strategies
• Dispatch and test customers in existing and new markets
• Ensure procedures are in place and kept up to date
• Monitoring delivery performance of services on an ongoing basis and preparing performance reports as required by grid operators and customers
• Provide feedback to the development team on tools and services to assist with energy analysis
• Work with ISO when unexpected settlements or queries arise
• Other activities and new service offerings that may arise as the role develops

• Understanding of trading, specifically energy trading a preference but not a requirement
• Good understanding of energy usage, energy billing across industrial and commercial retail buildings
• Interest in sustainability, renewable technologies, and energy markets
• Strong communicator with well-developed interpersonal skills
• Produce presentations and reports to a professional standard
• Demonstrate the ability to work on your own initiative
• Organized, energetic…