Senior Data Scientist - Colorado Licensed

Job Summary

To support the development of predictive models for extreme weather impacts on electric grid infrastructure, the full-time Senior Data Scientist - Colorado Licensed will design and operationalize machine learning models for transmission outage prediction, working remotely.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop, and validate machine learning models to predict transmission outages driven by extreme weather
• Build spatio-temporal models linking weather forecasts to infrastructure failure risk
• Collaborate with meteorologists and software engineers to enhance outage and extreme weather product capabilities

Required qualifications

• Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering, Atmospheric Science, Civil Engineering, Statistics, Data Science, or a related quantitative field preferred
• 5+ years of experience in statistical modeling and machine learning applied to grid reliability or storm outage prediction
• Demonstrated experience developing transmission outage prediction models
• Strong grounding in machine learning methods and statistical modeling for spatio-temporal problems
• Hands-on experience with agentic coding tools for AI-assisted development