Systems Engineer, Applied Meteorology

Company Overview

Pattern Energy Group is an independent, fully integrated energy company that develops, constructs, owns and operates renewable energy projects and transmission assets across North America and parts of Latin America. The company focuses primarily on wind, solar and transmission. The Pattern Energy Group team has a history as one of the top North American renewable energy and transmission providers in the industry. The team is dedicated to delivering the highest value for its customers, partners, financial supporters and the communities in which it works, while exhibiting a strong commitment to promoting environmental stewardship and corporate responsibility.

Pattern Energy Group operates in the United States, Canada, and Mexico with offices in San Francisco, Houston, Boulder, San Diego, New York, and Toronto. Pattern Energy Group’s corporate headquarters is in San Francisco.

The Systems Engineer, Applied Meteorology works within Pattern’s Meteorology and GIS department to develop and deploy advanced analytical tools, data services, and automated workflows that improve efficiency, forecasting accuracy, and decision-making across the full asset and portfolio lifecycle. The role delivers technical solutions that align with commercial objectives, elevate process maturity, and ensure high-quality integration of meteorological, geospatial, and market datasets into standardized workflows supporting solar, wind, transmission, and energy systems planning functions. Reporting to the Technical Director, Applied Meteorology, the Systems Engineer builds decision-support systems that leverage state-of-the-art tools, modeling, and reporting to deliver products and services that create positive company economic outcomes.

- Design and implement technical solutions using data and software to meet business objectives. Primary products include wind and solar resource assessment, energy assessment, techno economic analysis, and forecasting analytics.

- Serve as the primary data engineer for inputs to and outputs of internal energy assessments and techno economic analysis.

- Development of back end and front end data products and services

- Serve as developer of Applied Meteorology’s internal SDK and ecosystem of integrations. Responsibilities include architecture, environment management, development, secrets management, testing, CICD, documentation and training, and ensuring operability with other internally developed tools.

- Design, deploy, own, monitor and maintain scheduled Met and GIS workflows within Pattern’s Enterprise Architecture, in close collaboration with the Enterprise Technology team.

- Support analysis and tooling requests as needed and incorporate into internal SDK where appropriate

- Design, implement and maintain the interfaces by which SMEs can configure and execute tooling with a focus on adoption and usability.

- Build and support data integrations with external vendors, internal tools and corporate systems including, but not limited to Databricks Unity Catalog, Salesforce, Sharepoint, NEXUS and ArcGIS Enterprise.

- Ensure tools and data products are aligned with internal and industry standards and best practices.

- Design a path by which approved portions of Met and GIS’s internal SDK may be open sourced. Serve as primary maintainer and support for any open-sourced tools

Qualifications

EXPERIENCE/QUALIFICATIONS/EDUCATION REQUIRED

- Bachelor’s degree in a scientific discipline such as Computer Science, Data Science, Atmospheric Sciences, Earth Sciences, Physics, Mathematics, or a related technical discipline.

- 2-5 years experience in a similar role, with renewable energy industry experience preferred

- Demonstrated proficiency in scientific programming, data engineering, cloud computing and software development using python

- Familiarity with cloud computing platforms preferred with Azure and Databricks a strong plus

- Strong analytical and quantitative reasoning capabilities.

- Demonstrated success collaborating across functions and disciplines to deliver complex technical solutions.

- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, curious and self-motivated

- Familiarity with GIS and SQL

- Experience with Agile, Lean, or similar team process frameworks (preferred but not required).

PATTERN ENERGY GROUP LP IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

The expected starting pay range for this role is $80,000 USD - $108,000 USD. This range is an estimate and base pay may be above or below the ranges based on several factors including but not limited to location, work experience, certifications, and education. In addition to base pay, Pattern’s compensation program includes a bonus structure for full-time employees of all levels. We also provide a comprehensive benefits package which includes medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, life insurance, voluntary benefits, family care benefits, employee assistance program, paid time off and bonding leave, paid holidays, 401(k)/RRSP retirement savings plan with employer contribution, and employee referral bonuses.