Data Scientist, Senior

About the position

The System Performance, Reliability and Resiliency Strategy team within the overall Electric Transmission and Distribution Engineering organization is responsible for planning, organizing, and managing the resources necessary to successfully execute PG&E's Electric Reliability Strategy and initiatives. This team of forward-thinking individuals will be tasked with deploying technology and infrastructure and influencing the organization to achieve the company's reliability goals. The team is responsible for implementing programs required to modernize the electric grid allowing for safe, resilient and efficient operations. The team participates in a cross functional team of internal and consulting participants being tasked with leading the transition of a project from development and testing to being operational for each phase of each project. Within the System Performance, Reliability and Resiliency Strategy team, this position reports to the Sr Manage, Predictive Analytics and is responsible for developing industry leading anomaly detection models that will identify pending failures of the electric transmission and distribution grid. In this role the successful candidate will be uniquely positioned at the forefront of utility industry analytics. Working as part of cross functional teams, including data engineers, data scientists, technologist, and subject matter experts - this individual will lead the development of data science capabilities that could lead to paradigm changes in how the utility operates. This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work location based on business need. The assigned work location will be within the PG&E Service Territory.

Responsibilities

• Researches and applies knowledge of existing and emerging data science principles, theories, and techniques to inform business decisions
• Creates data mining architectures / models / protocols, statistical reporting, and data analysis methodologies to identify trends in structured and unstructured data sets
• Extracts, transforms, and loads data from dissimilar sources from across PG&E for their machine learning feature engineering
• Applies data science/ machine learning /artificial intelligence methods to develop defensible and reproducible predictive or optimization models
• Co-develops mathematical models and AI simulations that represent complex business problems
• Writes and documents python code for data science (feature engineering and machine learning modeling) independently
• Serves as the technical lead for the development of simple models
• Develops and presents summary presentations to business
• Act as peer reviewer of simple models

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Data Science, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Physics, Econometrics or Economics, Engineering, Mathematics, Applied Sciences, Statistics, or equivalent field, or equivalent experience
• 4 years in data science OR 2 years, if possess Master's Degree, as described above

Nice-to-haves

• Master's Degree in Data Science, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Physics, Econometrics or Economics, Engineering, Mathematics, Applied Sciences, Statistics, or equivalent field
• Relevant industry (electric or gas utility, renewable energy, analytics consulting, etc.) experience
• Demonstrated knowledge of and abilities with data science standards and processes (model evaluation, optimization, feature engineering, etc.) along with best practices to implement them
• Competency in software engineering, statistics, and machine learning techniques as they apply to data science deployment
• Competency in commonly used data science and/or operations research programming languages, packages, and tools
• Hands-on and theoretical experience of data science/machine learning models and algorithms
• Ability to synthesize complex information into clear insights and translate those insights into decisions and actions
• Demonstrated ability to explain in breadth and depth technical concepts including but not limited to statistical inference, machine learning algorithms, software engineering, model deployment pipelines
• Competency in the mathematical and statistical fields that underpin data science
• Mastery in systems thinking and structuring complex problems
• Ability to develop, coach and teach career level data scientists in data science/artificial intelligence/machine learning techniques and technologies

Benefits

• Salary range: Bay Minimum: $126,000; Bay Maximum: $200,000; CA Minimum: $120,000; CA Maximum: $190,000
• Eligible to participate in PG&E's discretionary incentive compensation programs