Posting Title
Energy Modeler – Engineer II
Location
CO – Golden
Position Type
Limited Term (Fixed Term)
Hours Per Week
40
Job Summary
Work in a dynamic, cross-disciplinary team using cutting-edge analytic techniques, including simulation, optimization, and statistical analysis. Apply programming skills to create new capabilities to analyze energy supply and demand scenarios and design solutions for complex challenges in sustainable energy development to solve real-world energy system design problems, including but not limited to transportation and fuels topics.
The successful candidate will help to develop and apply analytic techniques to a variety of sustainable energy questions. Duties will include:
- Perform detailed research to develop designs for models and other analyses by distilling findings from technical literature, research colleagues, and stakeholders.
- Identify, specify, obtain, clean, and manipulate the (often large) datasets necessary to complete target analyses.
- Develop system dynamics models, behavioral simulation models, and optimization models for decision support.
- Construct trip generation and mode choice scenarios.
- Create visualizations to facilitate analysis and communication of results.
- Communicate results in written research reports, presentations at seminars, and participation in workplace discussions.
- Collaborate with colleagues, other researchers, clients, and stakeholders to design, implement, and report analytic studies.
The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong mathematical and statistical skills and their application to modeling and analysis. The candidate must be willing to work in an interdisciplinary field, together with scientists, engineers, policy analysts, and computer scientists, and will require excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
Other required skills include:
- Meticulous attention to detail to ensure quality analysis
- Strong scientific programming and algorithm development skills
This position is in the Energy Forecasting and Modeling Group of NREL’s Strategic Energy Analysis Center.
Required Education, Experience, and Skills
Relevant Master’s Degree or equivalent relevant education/experience. Or, relevant Bachelor’s Degree and 2 or more years of experience or equivalent relevant education/experience. General knowledge and application of engineering technical standards, principles, theories, concepts and techniques. Training in team, task or project leadership responsibilities. Intermediate abilities and knowledge of practices and techniques. Beginning experience in project management. Good writing, interpersonal and communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications
M.S. degree in operations research, statistics, computer science, or related field. Experience with analysis of energy and transportation data. Expertise with statistical analysis and tools (R). Expertise in database designs and queries (SQL). Demonstrated scientific visualization capability (Tableau). Demonstrated data processing skills using scripting and programming.
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