Senior Data Scientist

Location: Carmel, Indiana; Eagan, Minnesota; Little Rock, Arkansas Grade: 24

Hiring Manager: Geoff Brigham

If you’re excited about applying advanced data science to real-world energy challenges, this role offers the chance to make a meaningful impact. As a Senior Data Scientist on MISO’s Demand Response team, you’ll work on complex analytics and machine learning initiatives that transform large, diverse datasets into insights that drive market and grid decisions. You’ll partner closely with both technical and non-technical stakeholders to design, deploy, and operationalize solutions that unlock the value of demand response, distributed energy resources (DERs), and load-modifying resources. Along the way, you’ll help set best practices, mentor teammates, and shape how data science supports MISO’s mission to enable grid transformation and maximize market value.

As MISO’s Senior Data Scientist, you will:

- Build and maintain tools that use data to help create and evaluate market offers and understand how different energy resources perform in MISO’s energy and capacity markets.

- Use Python to create and test data models that help determine what makes a strong or weak market offer and how resources can participate more effectively.

- Analyze large sets of data to spot trends, patterns, and issues in how demand response and other energy resources are performing.

- Help put data models into real use by running and monitoring them on cloud platforms like Azure, and sharing results through dashboards and reports in tools like Power BI.

- Write clean, well-documented code; conduct peer reviews; and mentor junior team members on data science, modeling techniques, and engineering best practices.

To be successful as MISO’s Senior Data Scientist, we’re looking for the following experience:

- Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Data Analytics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or related technical field, with at least 4 years of relevant work experience

- Delivering end-to-end data science solutions that move from problem definition to production, driving measurable improvements in market insights, operational decisions, or resource performance.

- Applying machine learning, deep learning, and statistical techniques to solve complex, real-world problems and translate model outputs into clear, actionable recommendations.

- Building models that meaningfully improve forecasting accuracy, performance evaluation, or decision-making in energy and market contexts.

- Demonstrating a consistent ability to turn complex data into results that stakeholders can understand, trust, and use.

Appropriate level will be determined based upon experience and knowledge.

Transformative innovation is happening in the electric industry, from digitalizing homes and distributed resources to renewable energy and an ever-changing grid. MISO manages the electricity superhighway in the Central U.S. and through use of groundbreaking research and advanced technology, our highly skilled employees ensure power flows reliably to 45 million Americans. Operating the electricity grid, running a robust energy market, planning for a bright future – it’s what our immensely hardworking and dedicated team does every day.

The base salary compensation range being offered for this role is $109,000 - $134,000 USD annually. Base salary range for this position is included in accordance with requirements of various state/local pay transparency legislation. Please note that salaries may vary for different individuals in the same role based on several factors, including but not limited to location of the role, individual competencies, education/professional certifications, and qualifications/experience.

Position is also eligible for an annual bonus if individual performance and company objectives are met. At MISO we offer a comprehensive benefits package, including 401k, vacation, sick and safe time, available on your first day of employment.

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