Optimization Engineer

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🕒 May 26

🏄 California, Colorado, +2 more states – Remote

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Intersect Power

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2016

⚡ Energy

💰 $2.4G Debt Financing on 2022-09

Energy • Renewable Energy • Clean Technology

Intersect Power is a clean energy company dedicated to developing, owning, and operating some of the world's largest clean energy resources. Founded in 2016, the company focuses on scalable and transformative projects that enable deep decarbonization by providing low-carbon electricity, fuels, and related products. Intersect Power's portfolio includes 2. 2 GW of operating solar PV and 2. 4 GWh of storage, and it aims to lead in grid-tied renewables and large-scale clean energy assets such as battery storage, data centers, and green hydrogen. The company's mission is to redefine the clean energy industry's scope by creating new pathways between clean electricity and the broader economy.

📋 Description

• 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