Pacific Gas and Electric Company

Expert Data Scientist

LocationOakland, CA
Job TypeFull-time

About This Job


Requisition ID # 164869


Job Category: Accounting / Finance


Job Level: Individual Contributor


Business Unit: Electric Engineering


Work Type: Hybrid


Job Location: Oakland


Department Overview

Electric Asset Management is responsible for the electric system engineering and planning, asset strategy, and risk management across transmission, distribution, and substation asset families. This centralized, risk-informed approach allows PG&E to manage electric risk, asset and system health, interconnections, and performance by using consistent standards, work methods, prioritization, and program sponsorship, while leveraging lessons learned from inspections and asset data to inform asset management decisions. The organization is accountable for asset planning and strategy, standards and work methods, and asset data management for Electric. The Asset Knowledge Management (AKM) team, within Electric Asset Management, is responsible for the management, quality, and access of PG&E’s electric asset data. The team’s objective is to maximize the use and ensure the trustworthiness of PG&E’s critical electric data assets.


Position Summary

The Data Management & Analytics (DM&A) Product Development team develops client centered delivery of Electric data products that reduce risk and improve operations. The team is looking for a Principal level data scientist who thrives on driving engineering and asset management improvements and insights through strategic data science and analysis. The individual in this role must have demonstrated success with cross-functional projects, ability to communicate complex concepts to leadership across the organization, experience driving solutions, detailed oriented, and able to think strategically.

In this role, you will work closely with fellow product developers, product managers, and partners throughout the Electric organization to understand their needs to develop valuable products (full-stack development). You will be a thought leader, a tech lead and be instrumental in building processes, tools, libraries to improve the efficiency of the team.

Designs, and develops, models, algorithms, and processes, using structured and unstructured data from disparate sources and sizes, generating actionable insights using data science and analytics. Works on process improvement, and product development/ enhancement. Works on technical development phases: data engineering, analytics/modeling, and visualization/user interface. Interacts with technical and non-technical clients to resolve analysis and technical issues. Works with product managers, team members, clients, and senior leadership throughout the development cycle. practicing continuous improvement

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work location based on business need.

PG&E is providing the salary range that the company in good faith believes it might pay for this position at the time of the job posting. This compensation range is specific to the locality of the job. The actual salary paid to an individual will be based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, geographic location, and internal equity. Although we estimate the successful candidate hired into this role will be placed towards the middle or entry point of the range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to these factors.


A reasonable salary range is:


Bay Area Minimum: $140,000


Bay Area Maximum: $238,000


Job Responsibilities

Execute full stack analytic product development, through ideation, pipeline, modelling and user interfaces and documentation.
Work closely with domain experts. Develop relevant domain knowledge in the electric utility.
Understand and apply machine learning and other analytical modeling methods to develop robust and reliable analytical models, including visualizations, within PG&E’s software development environment.
Mentor junior data scientists and data analysts and drive standardization in process and toolsets across the data science community at PG&E
Collaborate with fellow developers within the team for development of scalable data science capabilities
Defines, sources, implements, and documents robust, repeatable datasets for internal and cross-organizational use
Acts as peer reviewer of complex models.
Presents findings and makes recommendations to high level leaders.
Works with sponsor departments and company subject matter experts to understand application and potential of data science solutions which create value.
Compose and documents reusable python functions and modular python code for data science.
Wrangles and prepares data as input of machine learning model development and feature engineering.
Applies data science/ machine learning /artificial intelligence methods to develop defensible and reproducible predictive or optimization models which involve multiple facets and iterations in algorithm development.
Extracts, transforms, and loads data from dissimilar sources from across PG&E for their machine learning feature engineering.
Define, source, implement, and document robust, repeatable datasets for internal and cross-organizational use
Creates advanced data mining architectures / models / protocols, statistical reporting, and data analysis methodologies to identify trends in structured and unstructured data sets.


Qualifications


Minimum:

Bachelor’s Degree in Data Science, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Physics, Econometrics or Economics, Engineering, Mathematics, Applied Sciences, Statistics, or equivalent field
6 years in data science (or no experience, if possess Doctoral Degree or higher, as described above)


Desired:

Proficiency with the steps in the data science lifecycle: data gathering and preparation, feature engineering, model development and model testing
Proficiency with at least one commonly used data science programming language, such as Python, R, Matlab, Scala, or similar.
Expertise in data science/machine learning models and algorithms, such as Bayesian/statistical inference, NLP, deep learning, classification, clustering, forecasting, time series analysis, or other relevant techniques.
Experience in utility and energy industries
Proficient in Palantir Foundry
Proficient in image and natural language processing
Experience with systems thinking and structuring complex problems
Experience teaching and/or mentoring junior colleagues
Experience with programming best practices, including documentation, version control (e.g., Git or equivalent), unit testing, etc.
Knowledge of the mathematical and statistical fields that underpin data science, such as probability, statistics, optimization, linear algebra etc.
Expertise with data science/machine learning models and algorithms, such as: Bayesian/statistical inference, NLP, deep learning, classification techniques, clustering techniques, forecasting, time series analysis, etc.


#featuredjob

Similar Jobs

company-logo

Expert Data Scientist

Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Job TypeFull-time
 
Oakland, CA
9 days ago
company-logo

Data Scientist, Expert

Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Job TypeFull-time
 
Oakland, CA
8 days ago
company-logo

Data Scientist, Expert

Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Job TypeFull-time
 
Oakland, CA
23 days ago
company-logo

Data Scientist

Itron, Inc.
Job TypeFull-time
 
Liberty Lake, WA
8 days ago
company-logo

Data Scientist

Itron
Job TypeFull-time
Salary
$60000 - $115000
Liberty Lake, WA
8 days ago
company-logo

Data Scientist

EDF Renewables North America
Job TypeFull-time
 
San Diego, CA
16 days ago
company-logo

Data Scientist

Central Hudson
Job TypeFull-time
Salary
$71900 - $168700
Poughkeepsie, NY
21 days ago
company-logo

Data Scientist

Continental Resources
Job TypeFull-time
 
Oklahoma City, OK
23 days ago
company-logo

Data Scientist

Continental Resources, Inc.
Job TypeFull-time
 
Oklahoma City, OK
23 days ago
company-logo

Data Scientist

Portland General Electric
Job TypeFull-time
 
Portland, OR
23 days ago
company-logo

Data Scientist

Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Job TypeFull-time
 
Oakland, CA
23 days ago
company-logo

Data Scientist I

Puget Sound Energy
Salary
$99600 - $175200
Bellevue, WA
4 days ago
company-logo

Data Scientist Senior

American Electric Power
Job TypeFull-time
Salary
$96110 - $124940
Columbus, OH
17 days ago
company-logo

Data Scientist, Senior

Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Job TypeFull-time
 
Oakland, CA
23 days ago
company-logo

Data Scientist Intern

ChampionX
Job TypeFull-time
 
The Woodlands, TX
7 days ago
company-logo

Data Scientist Intern

ChampionX
Job TypeFull-time
 
The Woodlands, TX
8 days ago
company-logo

Data Scientist Intern

ChampionX
Job TypeFull-time
 
The Woodlands, TX
8 days ago
company-logo

Staff Data Scientist

Itron, Inc.
Job TypeFull-time
 
Liberty Lake, WA
8 days ago
company-logo

Staff Data Scientist

Itron
Job TypeFull-time
Salary
$75000 - $148000
Liberty Lake, WA
8 days ago
company-logo

Data Scientist Intern

Vallourec
Job TypeFull-time
 
Youngstown, OH
10 days ago

Trending Jobs

company-logo

Nuclear Technical Intern - Mid Atlantic

Constellation
Job TypeInternship
 
Lusby, MD
24 days ago
company-logo

Apprentice Lineman

Brink Constructors, Inc.
Job TypeFull-time
 
Rapid City, SD
23 days ago
company-logo

Deckhand (Houston)

John W. Stone Oil Distributor, LLC
 
Houston, TX
24 days ago
company-logo

Electrical Engineer

Dudley Staffing
Job TypeFull-time
Salary
$55 - $75
Canonsburg, Pennsylvania
3 months ago
company-logo

Director, Financial Planning & Analysis - Energy (Enterprise)

Pilot Thomas Logistics
Job TypeFull-time
 
Grapevine, TX
24 days ago
company-logo

Quality Engineer

Jedco Inc.
Job TypeFull-time
 
Grand Rapids, MI
18 days ago
company-logo

Solar Electrician

MN8 Energy
Job TypeFull-time
 
California, United States
22 days ago
company-logo

Sr. Polymer Scientist

ExxonMobil
Job TypeFull-time
 
Baytown, TX
22 days ago
company-logo

Gas Foreman

Peak Utility Services Group
Job TypeFull-time
 
Lawton, OK
23 days ago
company-logo

Apprentice Lineman I

San Patricio Electric Cooperative, Inc.
Job TypeFull-time
 
Sinton, TX
8 days ago
company-logo

Apprentice Line Worker I

Tampa Electric
Job TypeFull-time
 
Ruskin, FL
about 1 month ago
company-logo

Finishing Helper Entry Level- Dayshift

Bonnell Aluminum
Salary
$41600 - $41600
Carthage, TN
18 days ago
company-logo

contract landman

HPS Oil & Gas Properties
Job TypeFull-time
 
Lafayette, Louisiana
about 2 months ago
SD

Service Manager

Supertech Diesel Truck Specialists
Job TypeFull-time
 
Langley, BC
21 days ago
company-logo

Meter Technician

ONEOK
Job TypeFull-time
 
Odessa, TX
24 days ago
company-logo

Apprentice Power Lineman

Proline Power Corp.
Job TypeFull-time, Apprenticeship
 
Red Deer, AB
28 days ago
SD

Service Manager

Supertech Diesel Truck Specialists
Job TypeFull-time
 
Nanaimo, BC
21 days ago
company-logo

Senior Landman

Greenlake Energy
Job TypeFull-time
 
Austin, Texas
15 days ago
company-logo

Senior Investigator

Dominion Energy
Job TypeFull-time
 
Norfolk, VA
24 days ago
company-logo

Assembler/Production

Uptalent
Job TypeContract
Salary
$37440 - $49920
Oklahoma City, OK
17 days ago