Power ML Engineer

As a Power ML Engineer you will be responsible for the development of the Power offering. You will be fully dedicated to a new product covering the Japanese power market. This product will adapt and expand as required, existing modelling infrastructure to the Japanese power market in order to build fundamental forecasts.

• Learn and adapt existing models to the Japanese market
• Integrate market signals from other commodities (LNG, coal) to enhance the quality of our forecasts
• Enrich the product and participate in the development of new features
• Build and improve monitoring and alerting tools and dashboards
• Ensuring good performance on our API to distribute the data to end users
• Discuss the roadmap in collaboration with the product team. Help the team build ambitious yet sustainable plans

Essential:

• Understanding of electricity grid fundamentals (Production, Transmission, Markets)
• Circa 3-5 years' of experience as a data focused Software Engineer
• Significant experience working with Python (FastAPI is a plus)
• Have worked with with Postgresql or similar data stores,
• Proficiency in building and consuming RESTful APIs
• Machine Learning research (Training, Evaluation, Backtesting, Tuning, Model selection). Deep learning is a plus, but not required
• Data Science research (Stats, Hypothesis testing…)
• ML Engineering (model versionning, feature versionning)
• Comfortable working with Git, code reviews, and Agile methodologies
• Experience with time-series, events data, normalization, database design
• Strong command of written and spoken English
• Understanding of performance optimization and caching strategies

Desirable:

• Previous experience in electricity markets
• Have experience with AWS (or another cloud provider), using Terraform
• Experience with orchestration tool Airflow on a production environment
• Experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Experience with a ML registry framework (e.g. MLFlow…)
• Knowledge on hexagonal architecture and medallion architecture
• Used monitoring solutions (Datadog, Grafana, etc...)
• Experience with No
  
  SQL database
• Japanese speaker

Behavioural

Competencies:

• Great communication, ability to work asynchronously with team members in other countries
• Curious to learn about the domain

BSc/MSc in computer science, computer engineering or equivalent

Kpler is committed to providing a fair, inclusive and diverse work-environment. We believe that different perspectives lead to better ideas, and better ideas allow us to better understand the needs and interests of our diverse, global community. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives and are an equal opportunity employer.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Research shows that women and people of color are less likely than others to apply if they feel like they don’t match 100% of the job requirements. Don’t let the confidence gap stand in your way, we’d love to hear from you! We understand that experience comes in many different forms and are dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team.