About the role

  • Lead Data Scientist enhancing predictive models for electric system failures at PG&E. Engaging in data science communities and educating stakeholders about data insights and solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Creates, applies, and evaluates advanced data mining architectures / models / protocols, statistical reporting, and data analysis methodologies to identify trends in structured and unstructured data sets
  • Applies and evaluates data science/ machine learning/artificial intelligence methods to develop defensible and reproducible predictive or optimization models that involve multiple facets and iterations in algorithm development.
  • Writes and documents complex and reusable python functions as well as multi-modular python code for data science.
  • As a technical leader, provides thought leadership in the use of a ML algorithms for solving business problems.
  • Mentors junior data scientists and drives standardization in process and toolsets across the data science community at PG&E.
  • Collaborates with analytics platform owners to prioritize and drive development of scalable data science capabilities.
  • Acts as peer reviewer for complex models/AI algorithm proposals.
  • Recognizes and prioritizes the most important work related to data science models to achieve highest operational and strategic impact for analytics in the business.
  • Works with enterprise leaders as an advocate for digital transformation of the business through the adoption of data science, analytics, and data-driven business processes.
  • Presents findings and makes recommendations to executive leadership and cross-functional management.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Data Science, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Physics, Econometrics, or Economics, Engineering, Mathematics, Applied Sciences, Statistics, or equivalent field.
  • 8 years in data science OR 2 years, if possess Doctoral Degree or higher, as described above
  • Experience in utility and energy industries
  • Thought leadership in the external data science/artificial intelligence/machine learning community of practice, as demonstrated through peer reviewed journal publications, intellectual property/patent achievements, conference presentations, volunteering in professional organizations for the advancement of the field, participation in externally sponsored research projects, open source contributions, or similar activities.
  • Proficiency with data science standards and processes (model evaluation, optimization, feature engineering, etc) along with best practices to implement them.
  • Proficiency with commonly used data science programming languages, packages, and software tools for building data science/machine learning models and algorithms
  • Mastery in explaining in breadth and depth technical concepts including but not limited to statistical inference, machine learning algorithms, software engineering, model deployment pipelines.
  • Ability to clearly communicate complex technical details and insights to colleagues, stakeholders, and leadership
  • Leadership in developing, coaching, teaching and mentoring others to meet both their career goals and the organization goals.

Benefits

  • This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E’s discretionary incentive compensation programs.

Job title

Principal Data Scientist

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

$151,000 - $271,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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