Optimization Engineer
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Optimization Engineer creating optimization programs for energy infrastructure projects. Collaborating with various teams to enhance operational performance and scalability in energy and data center projects.
Responsibilities:
- Build the Optimization Engine that Drives Intersect’s GW-Scale Microgrids
- Design, implement, and maintain production code for optimization, bidding, simulation, and forecasting workflows.
- Develop orchestration frameworks to enable parallelization, reliability, and reproducibility.
- Guide technical decisions related to data architecture, software design, and system reliability.
- Establish patterns, tooling, and best practices to support scalable optimization capabilities.
- Incorporate uncertainty, probabilistic forecasts, and financial risk into algorithm design while balancing performance and interpretability.
- Collaborate across engineering and business teams to ensure optimization systems perform reliably in live market conditions.
- Partner with trading and operations teams to create feedback loops between real-world performance and algorithmic improvements.
- Advance simulation tools to accelerate parameter tuning and expand analytical capabilities.
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience formulating and solving optimization problems (LP, MILP, nonlinear) in production environments.
- Familiarity with solvers such as Gurobi, XPRESS, HiGHS, or CPLEX and modeling frameworks like Pyomo, JuMP, or AMPL.
- Experience providing technical leadership and guiding system architecture decisions.
- Hands-on experience with production code, continuous deployment, and designing for scalability and reliability.
- Working knowledge of orchestration tools such as Airflow, Temporal, Dagster, Flyte, or Argo.
- Strong systems thinking and ability to collaborate across teams to ensure cohesive, high-performing solutions.
- Ability to leverage AI tools to accelerate development while maintaining high code quality standards.
- Strongly Preferred: Graduate degree in operations research, engineering, economics, or a related field with a strong mathematical foundation.
- Strong knowledge of energy systems, wholesale power markets, or power plant operations.
- Experience in environments where latency and reliability directly impact business outcomes.
- Experience building and operating production infrastructure on cloud platforms such as GCP, AWS, or Azure.
Benefits:
- Equity: Beyond your salary, you’ll receive an Equity Grant, giving you a meaningful stake in our parent company.
- Health & wellness: 100% premium coverage for you and your dependents on medical, dental, and vision
- Time to recharge: Unlimited PTO, plus two company-wide breaks (Fourth of July & end of year)
- Family support: Up to 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave, plus 6 additional weeks for birth parents; access to family planning and family care support through Carrot and Maven
- Mental health: Free access to Spring Health, including 5 free therapy and psychiatry sessions, plus a Headspace account for mindfulness and meditation through our physical health vendor, Wellhub+
- Perks & extras: $150 monthly food stipend, $150 monthly reimbursement for cell phone and internet, pet insurance allowance, full home office setup, free access to UrbanSitter with $625 in quarterly company-paid credits, ActiveHero, and One Medical
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