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Turning complexity into clarity, and potential into performance.\nWe help asset owners, operators and stakeholders benefit from the full value of their energy portfolio by enabling the intelligent development, deployment, and operation of clean energy assets. Our integrated software suite, PowerTrack, is the industry standard and best-in-class for asset monitoring, supported by professional and managed services, under one roof. Meant to tackle challenges as seamlessly as possible, Stem shows the information needed clearly and accurately and helps harness raw data to inform actionable insight. With global projects managed in 55 countries - from Germany to Japan and across North America - customers have relied on Stem for nearly 20 years to maximize the value of their clean energy projects.\nStem’s culture embodies diversity & inclusion beyond the traditional facets of gender, ethnicity, age, disabilities, and sexual orientation to include experience, personality, communication, work styles, and more. At our core, Stem is at the momentous intersection of clean energy and software technology where diverse ideas, experiences, and professional skills converge to make the inclusive culture we have today. Together, we are turning old school thoughts about software and energy into progressive, collaborative, and innovative solutions. By joining our team, you will be collaborating with data scientists, energy experts, skilled salespeople, thought-leading executives and more from a range of backgrounds. This intersection of ideas, beliefs, and skills is what makes us unique enough to lead the world’s largest network of digitally connected energy storage systems.\nWhat We Are Looking For / Role Overview\nStem is seeking a Senior Data Scientist with strong hands-on experience in solar PV performance modeling to join our team. This role is focused on advancing performance analytics for solar PV and battery energy storage within PowerTrack, Stem's core asset management platform. You will be responsible for supporting and standardizing the physics-based performance models, underperformance and loss reporting, and expected-energy forecasting that our customers rely on. A solid foundation in statistics and machine learning (ML) is expected, with room to grow into more advanced ML-based techniques as your role here develops.\nKey Responsibilities\nLead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of physics-based performance models for solar PV and battery energy storage assets within PowerTrack, including the underlying data configuration and validation that keep model inputs accurate and consistent across heterogeneous site layouts\nOwn the accuracy and defensibility of performance and losses/underperformance reporting (e.g., downtime, curtailment, soiling, and other loss categories) used for customer reporting and decision-making\nDevelop and contribute to time-series forecasting models that support expected-energy prediction and inform downstream merchant operations and storage/hybrid use cases\nApply and contribute to evaluation frameworks - running structured experiments, validating model accuracy against known or proxy ground truth, and producing the technical documentation, validation reports, and benchmarks that communicate modeling assumptions and findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders\nPartner with software engineers and data engineers to integrate performance models and configuration tooling into production systems that are scalable, testable, and maintainable\nCollaborate with the team's machine-learning-based fault detection efforts, connecting detected anomalies to the underperformance detection and loss categorization work this role owns, and aligning on shared data and system interfaces - with an eye toward this role expanding into ML-driven diagnostics as that capability matures\nExercise independent judgment on prioritization and technical approach for cross-functional projects with competing constraints, escalating to subject matter experts only when needed, and lead peer reviews of data science artifacts and code - providing constructive feedback and guiding junior data scientists\nRequired Qualifications\nMinimum of 5 years in data science, analytics, PV/solar performance engineering, or a related quantitative field (3+ years with a PhD in a relevant scientific or engineering discipline)\nBachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Renewable/Solar Energy, Physics, Data Science, Statistics, Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related field; or equivalent experience\nHands-on experience with solar photovoltaic performance modeling - including tools like pvlib or similar irradiance/PV simulation libraries - translating physical/engineering assumptions into code\nStrong foundation in statistics and machine learning: regression, classification, time-series analysis, hypothesis testing, and model evaluation\nProficiency in Python and data science libraries (pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn)\nAdvanced SQL skills and experience working with large-scale time-series datasets\nExperience building, validating, and benchmarking production-grade models or statistical algorithms - designing informative experiments and translating findings into actionable solutions\nExperience writing well-documented, reproducible, and maintainable scientific code, using Git/version control and modern AI coding assistants (Cursor, Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, etc.) to accelerate development\nStrong communication and presentation skills with the ability to translate complex technical findings for diverse audiences\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with C#/.NET\nFamiliarity with battery operations and modeling\nExperience with data provenance, data quality, or configuration-management practices\nExperience applying time-series anomaly detection and forecasting to IoT, energy monitoring, or other data-intensive operational environments\nKnowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and microservices / containerization (Docker, REST APIs)\nFamiliarity with database technologies including PostgreSQL, Timescale, or Redis\nExperience with CI/CD pipelines and agile development methodologies\nMaster's degree in a quantitative field\nLocation:\nBroomfield, CO. This is a hybrid role working out of our Broomfield CO office a couple days a week or US remote. With the remote option, must be open to travel to the office when needed.\nTo learn more about Stem, visit our stem.com where you’ll find information about our solutions, technology, partners, case studies, resources, latest news and more. Here are some relevant links:\nCompany Overview\nNewsroom\nInsights\nLinkedIn\nWhat We Offer:\nAt Stem, you will work in a growing, innovative, mission-driven company with talented colleagues that have a passion for building renewable energy systems. Stem offers competitive compensation as well as a comprehensive set of benefits to support the health and wellness of our employee including:\nA competitive compensation package, including eligibility for a bonus or commission based on the role.\nFull health benefits on the first day of employment (several medical plan options-HDHP and PPO, dental plans, FSA/HSA-with employer contribution, employer paid vision/LTD/STD/Life, variety of voluntary coverage)\n401k (pre- or post-tax) on first day of employment\n12 paid calendar holidays per year\nFlexible time-off\nStem, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity in the workplace and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, pregnancy, religion, national origin, ethnicity, citizenship, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, disability, genetic information, military status, protected veteran status or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.","description_format":"text","description_chars":8007,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["401k plan"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Artificial Intelligence","Energy & Utilities"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-06T12:22:03Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":35,"band":"fade","label":"Fading","p_open":1,"p_active":0.785,"p_room":0.44,"age_days":60,"expected_fill_days":54,"reasons":["conf:3","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-10-26T05:57:25Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/stem-energy-senior-data-scientist-pv-performance-diagnostics","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/stem-energy-senior-data-scientist-pv-performance-diagnostics.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-27T04:41:25Z","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":4257,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-28T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"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":179652},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=179652"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fstem-energy-senior-data-scientist-pv-performance-diagnostics"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"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%2Fstem-energy-senior-data-scientist-pv-performance-diagnostics"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"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%2Fstem-energy-senior-data-scientist-pv-performance-diagnostics"},{"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/stem-energy-senior-data-scientist-pv-performance-diagnostics\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fstem-energy-senior-data-scientist-pv-performance-diagnostics"}]}