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Machine Learning / Data Science Engineer

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Job Summary

Responsible for helping the company discover information hidden in vast amounts of data published by the electric system operators, integrate it with the internal data collected from various sensors into the a decision making system. The primary focus will be applying data mining techniques, feature engineering and building high quality time series prediction tools to assist wholesale trading and retail marketing functions.

Job Description

Key Accountabilities

Deliver advanced analytics solutions to business problems with little or no reliance on supervision
Lead a group of external developers / contractors in implementing advanced algorithms/models in the proprietary algorithmic trading platform.
Demonstrate business value from his/her models and ensure that stakeholders are aligned with the expected and actual results.
Summarize multi-dimensional data (i.e. bids & offers, fuel prices and system demand driving factors), find driving factors and forecast them
Ability to generalize solutions across markets i.e. in other ISOs
Collaborates with teams across organization, effectively communicate with stakeholders and implement solutions
Monitor and improve implemented solutions and recalibrate all models
Build ensembles of models for load and price prediction
· Must be able to create effective documentation.
Understanding of Machine Learning principles and contribute to the development of energy forecasting tools
Build / improve current load and price prediction models

Education, Experience, & Skill Requirements

Bachelors degree in Mathematics, Computer Science, Operations Research, Statistics or a related discipline
2-5 years of working experience with data mining, analytics or modeling
Experience with AWS architecture and tools as well as Python programming language
Understanding of convolutional and recurrent neural networks is a plus as well as the understanding of simulation based optimization techniques (Q-learning, Stochastic Optimization)
Working knowledge of Tensorflow/PyTorch
The engineer must be eager to learn, assimilate constructive feedback and grow through roles of greater responsibility
Must be an independent thinker, with a strong bias towards action and avoiding analysis-paralysis.

Key Metrics

Models’ accuracy, timely execution of forecasting models
Continue integration of various data sources into existing models
Effective collaboration internally and with outside developers and contractors

Passionate about solving real business problems via advanced analytics and data science

Job Family

Corp Dev & Planning

Company

Vistra Corporate Services Company

Locations

Irving, Texas

Texas

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