Data Scientist, Grid Modeling & Methodology

Salary Competitive

About Electricity Maps

Electricity Maps is an API platform providing real-time and predictive electricity signals allowing any device to reduce their cost and emissions by informing them about the best time to consume electricity.

We’re, for example, used by Google to change the time and location of their datacenter energy usage, or by Samsung devices in their SmartThings Energy App (read more about our customer stories here). We recently raised €5M to accelerate our growth and are backed by world-class investors with experience from Unity, Zendesk, Datadog, Hugging Face, DocuSign and more.

The role is based in Copenhagen, one of the most live-able cities in the world.

The role

Electricity Maps aims to become the information layer for the world’s electricity system. We’re looking for a Data Scientist to help us build the best digital representation of the electricity system worldwide. You’ll be a key part of our effort to expand our product to cover new geographical regions, while at the same time maintaining high data quality and scientific standards. You will be a member of our Grid Modeling & Methodology team and report to the CTO.

You will:

  • Improve the quality and coverage of our data by implementing quality checks and estimation models.

  • Increase the trustworthiness of our data by ensuring that we stay up-to-date with developments in the field.

  • Explore better modeling techniques to help move us closer to the best digital representation of the grid.

  • Promote transparency by working with the community and publicly documenting our methodology.

  • Promote optimisation, testing and tooling for our processing pipelines.

  • Collaborate with engineers to build scalable systems.

To be successful in this role, you:

  • Have a strong theoretical understanding of statistics/probability theory/optimisation.

  • Have experience writing production code.

  • Are detail-oriented and organized.

  • Thrive in an environment that provides autonomy, that supports your individual growth with interesting tasks.

  • Possess a pragmatic and honest communication style.

  • Want to work with a team with a variety of backgrounds and skill sets.

  • Bonus: have experience working with the energy sector.

If you don't check all the boxes above but you like the position, please apply because we value experience in many different ways.

Compensation & Benefits:

  • Salary: 48500 DKK/month depending on experience

  • Stock options

  • 6 weeks of paid holidays

  • Paid lunch when working from the office

  • Health insurance and insurance covering loss of ability to work

  • Parental leave

  • A huge opportunity for career growth as you’ll help shape a market-defining product

What’s the interview process like?

It starts the same for every candidate: getting to know each during a short intro talk where we will discuss practicalities, cultural fit/add and answer any first questions you might have. Next steps can vary by role, but will include an interview with a focus on the technical requirements for the role, an interview with a focus on team fit/add and cultural fit/add and a founder interview. Other assessments can be part of the process (e.g. a coding interview for an engineer, a portfolio review for a designer, deeper experience meetings for other roles). We prioritize transparency and honesty throughout the process.


Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

Paid holiday
Paid holiday

Work life balance
Work life balance

Near public transit
Near public transit

Social gatherings
Social gatherings

Healthcare insurance
Healthcare insurance

Free lunch
Free lunch

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Working at
Electricity Maps

Electricity Maps provides actionable electricity data for more than 200 regions. We help businesses more effectively reduce their emissions, and enable products and services to differentiate their offerings by empowering end-users to be more carbon-aware. As wind and solar production fluctuate throughout the day, this information needs to be dynamic and updated in real-time. As this real-time information about the physical origin of electricity will be scrutinized and challenged by many parties, the effort has to be collaborative, open, and transparent. This is what motivated the creation of Electricity Maps. It started as a simple real-time data visualization in June 2016 and turned into a comprehensive data platform with high scientific integrity. More than 40,000 people use our app on a daily basis and market leaders like Google and Microsoft, are using our API for extensive projects in order to reach their climate goals and help their users take action against climate change. Our goal: a truly decarbonized electricity system. To get there, we will organize the world's electricity information, and use it to drive the transition toward a truly decarbonized electricity system.

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