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The shift to renewables, the proliferation of rooftop solar, batteries and EVs, and the increasing complexity of distribution networks are forcing utilities to operate their grids in fundamentally new ways. Gridsight's platform uses data, ML and AI to help grid operators modernise their operations and unlock transformational new capabilities. We deliver visibility into the grid edge, faster renewable connections, and real-time orchestration of distributed energy. The opportunity is enormous ($1B+ ARR).\nWe're embedded with over 50% of Australia's distribution networks, more than 30% in New Zealand, and have 1 of the top 5 utilities in the US as our lighthouse. Airtree led our Series A, we grew ARR 3.4x in the past 6 months, and we're on the path to build the first truly generational utility software company.\nWe are a team of builders. What unites us is that we’re curious, hungry and obsessed with maximising the impact we can deliver to Gridsight and the energy transition. If that sounds like you, come join us!\nThe Role\nAs a Senior/Staff Data Scientist in the Connections Squad, you will provide the data insights needed to connect new facilities to the grid. You will design, implement and run the calculations needed to model new connections, and perform the statistical analysis needed to assess their impacts. Your solutions will allow electricity utilities to efficiently manage grid constraints and resources, to forecast grid state into the future, and to assess connection applications for new renewables projects in record time.\nKey Accountabilities\nDesign, build, and maintain software products and data science models capable of simulating or predicting key components, properties and events of electricity grids, including individual connections to the grid such as power assets, commercial, industrial, agricultural and infrastructure projects\nObtain data from disparate sources to inform and support modelling, by performing data discovery and/or developing automated retrieval pipelines as needed\nEnsure software and model capabilities, coverage and performance align with customer requirements, directly engaging with customers from time to time in order to do so\nCollaborate with Software Engineers, Data Engineers, and other Product teams to understand data science requirements and translate them into technical solutions\nEstablish best practices for development, validation, and monitoring of data and software products\nContribute to technical and architectural strategy for data science \nCore Requirements\nExperience: 5+ years in data science roles in industry, with demonstrable impact.\nSoftware engineering fundamentals: proficiency in Python or similar language, architecture, system design, version control, testing practices, code review, CI/CD\nNumerical modelling: mathematical modelling, numerical methods, applied statistics\nML modelling: experience developing, training, testing and validating machine learning models, as well as deploying them to production\nDifferentiators\nExperience with Monte Carlo methods\nExperience with numerical forecasting methods\nExperience in energy, utilities, or IoT/sensor data domains\nExperience building data products for customer consumption\nExperience delivering software/data products to customers, and iterating based on their feedback.\nExperience discovering and integrating diverse data sources into complex modelling pipelines, both ML and otherwise\nExperience designing and implementing agentic workflows\nExperience optimising Python workflows, e.g. via parallel/distributed solutions or development of interfaces to optimised lower-level libraries\nExperience working in remote or distributed teams\nData governance or compliance experience in regulated industries\nWhat We Offer\nCompetitive salary. 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Fully remote, hybrid or in office with a fresh, new head office in Sydney and satellite spaces in Melbourne, Brisbane and Hobart.\nLearn More\n Brendan Banfield (CEO at Gridsight) in conversation with James Cameron (Partner at Airtree)\nGridsight's work with Endeavour Energy to deliver flexible exports\n The problem space we're tackling","description_format":"text","description_chars":4461,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Simulation & Digital Twin Software","Power Grid","Smart Grid","Energy AI"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-09T00:41:47Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":69,"reasons":["conf:3","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-11-09T04:33:53Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/gridsight-seniorstaff-data-scientist","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/gridsight-seniorstaff-data-scientist.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-09T04:33:53Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":3961,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-10T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":93487},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=93487"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fgridsight-seniorstaff-data-scientist"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":2,"usd":0.2},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fgridsight-seniorstaff-data-scientist"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fgridsight-seniorstaff-data-scientist"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/gridsight-seniorstaff-data-scientist\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fgridsight-seniorstaff-data-scientist"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3948869}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"gridsight.ai","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3948869},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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