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SalaryVirtual Peaker is looking for a Research and Development Engineer that will help solve the climate crisis by supporting our mission of building the utility of the future. The intermittent nature of wind and solar energy make it much harder for electric utilities to keep the grid in balance. Renewable energy is going to save humanity, and Virtual Peaker is part of the solution.
We are currently looking for a R&D Engineer to be responsible for developing new products, processes or technologies through collecting relevant information and data, analyzing it, performing tests, and creating optimal solutions that meet the needs of our customers.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop prototypes for modeling the behavior of individual DERs or groups of DERs, using both physics-driven models and data-driven machine learning models
- Develop prototypes of control algorithms for groups of DERs, including optimization-based control
- Troubleshoot existing ML models and data processing within our forecasting system
- Help integrate control and modeling prototypes into production deployments, including troubleshooting issues after integration
- Miscellaneous control, modeling, and data analysis tasks
- Attend Product, R&D, and company-wide meetings
Education & Experience:
- Masters or PhD with a focus in control systems, data science, or a similar technical field
- Experience with developing control algorithms or modeling for DERs
- Programming experience (e.g., with JS, Matlab, or Python)
- Familiarity with machine learning methods and optimization formulations
- Experience developing and troubleshooting software to simulate and test algorithms
- Track record of creatively applying theoretical approaches to solve complex, potentially ambiguous research problems
