Performance Optimization Engineer Jobs in Austin, TX

Who are GridBeyond?

GridBeyond are a green tech energy scale-up company, with big plans to disrupt the energy sector on a relentless course to achieve our vision of delivering a global zero carbon future. With well-established roots in the demand side response space, we have expanded our commercial strategical thinking and product portfolio to enable us to break new global market barriers.

How does GridBeyond do this?

We do this by living our Mission, leveraging AI to innovate and collaborate with our customers creating optimal value from renewable energy generation, demand and storage to deliver a zero-carbon future.

What’s the business and culture like?

Over the last 24 months, we have doubled the number of people that work with us and expanded our business operations over an international landscape. With people working in Ireland, UK, US, Japan, and Australia-we are company that understands the importance of connection and thrive on the purpose of our work. We are proud to contribute to a greener, cleaner world for everyone to live in.

What’s this role about?

The following position will support GridBeyond’s Trading Operations (NOC) team and will help GridBeyond provide its customers with a route to market to monetize flexibility and generation in all available energy markets and ancillary services. The role involves providing support and continuity with our clients and our market optimization team, requiring successful candidates to be involved in optimization and execution of trading strategies while ensuring all customer sites are responding to grid services. Successful candidates will also be involved in development of solutions, tools and reports whilst providing ongoing analysis of markets. This is a Mon-Fri position covering the evening peaks in Texas enabling GridBeyond to cover ancillary and energy markets in CAISO, ERCOT, MISO & PJM. There will also be additional support required for Japan/Australian markets as well as Ireland and UK. This role is a great opportunity for a candidate to learn and develop understanding in how Energy markets work across the globe. The majority of the role will be US focused.

What will I be doing?

• Support the NOC in monitoring of all our US customers and some key customers in Japan/Australia
• Ensuring we are meeting SLAs with customers in terms of uptime & ticket resolution
• Optimizing our portfolio in ancillary services (frequency, reserve) and energy markets.
• Analyzing market dynamics, defining short term trading strategies. Trade execution and both financial and physical management of our asset’s positions
• Support and drive GridBeyond’s entry into new ancillary services and power markets. Understand market structure, analyze potential opportunities and definition and execution of trading strategies
• Dispatch and test customers in existing and new markets
• Ensure procedures are in place and kept up to date
• Monitoring delivery performance of services on an ongoing basis and preparing performance reports as required by grid operators and customers
• Provide feedback to the development team on tools and services to assist with energy analysis
• Work with ISO when unexpected settlements or queries arise
• Other activities and new service offerings that may arise as the role develops
• Leveraging AI to develop trading strategies, efficient reporting & efficient monitoring

What do I need to be a good technical fit for this role?

• Understanding of trading, specifically energy trading a preference but not a requirement
• Good understanding of energy usage, energy billing across industrial and commercial retail buildings
• Interest in sustainability, renewable technologies, and energy markets
• Strong communicator with well-developed interpersonal skills
• Produce presentations and reports to a professional standard
• Demonstrate the ability to work on your own initiative
• Organized, energetic and self-motivated
• Familiarity with Microsoft Office suite of software tools
• Familiar with AI, Python and low level coding
• Highly numerate and analytical
• Good attention to detail
• Market knowledge

What behaviors are rewarded at GridBeyond?

• Customer Centric- We keep our customers at the forefront of every decision we make.
• Relentless- We push beyond boundaries, overcome obstacles. We refuse to give up and will never settle for less than world class.
• Integrity - We are committed to conducting ourselves with honesty, ethics, and transparency. We foster trust and respect with our colleagues, customers and partners.
• Agility- We value agility and the willingness to embrace new ideas and technologies.
• Collaboration- We foster a culture of cooperation, communication, and shared knowledge.

Can you tell me about the benefits?

• Excellent salary commensurate to experience
• 401K with generous employer contribution
• Paid market leading medical insurance cover
• Self-development funding
• Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
• Work from anywhere once a year