PRT Data Scientist
Dallas, TX

Job Description

Why YOU want this position

Drillinginfo delivers business-critical insights to the global energy industry through a state-of-the-art SaaS platform built on industry-leading data and energy analytics. Our solutions deliver value across the entire energy value chain, empowering customers to be more agile, efficient and competitive. The range of energy industry participants we serve includes exploration and production (E&P) companies and related businesses such as oilfield services, midstream, capital markets, power generators and utilities, energy traders, and downstream commercial & industrial energy consumers.

DrillingInfo is an industry leader in providing electricity load, price, wind, and solar generation forecasting software-as-a-service. We are looking for an experienced data scientist to further advance our capabilities in the field. The primary function of this role is to maintain and advance machine learning models to forecast short-term regional electricity load, prices, and generation.

Performance Objectives

* Build, maintain, document, and continuously improve predictive models using both machine learning and fundamental models
* Automate data cleansing and outlier/anomaly detection
* Analyze big data to discover trends and patterns, and create factors with predictive power
* Combine models through ensemble modeling
* Propose technical solutions to business challenges
* Collaborate with developer and product teams to operationalize and maintain client-facing software products
* Keep current with the latest technical developments in the data science field

Competitive Candidate Profile

* 5+ years of experience preferred
* Proven track record of success as a data scientist required
* Solid understanding of statistics and a variety of machine learning techniques
* Expert knowledge of artificial neural networks required
* Expert knowledge of time series analysis required
* Experience with Python and its ML/ANN libraries
* Great communication skills and ability to engage with technical and non-technical audiences
* Understanding of AWS machine learning tools a plus
* General understanding of microservices and containers (Docker) a plus
* Knowledge of the power sector a plus but not necessary
* High energy level, high attention to detail, self-motivated and innovative