AI Engineer

Role OverviewWe are building next-generation revenue optimization and algorithmic dispatch capabilities for Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) and Virtual Power Plant (VPP) platforms across residential, commercial & industrial (C&I), and utility-scale energy applications in overseas electricity markets.This role focuses on developing and deploying forecasting and optimization algorithms into live production environments, with direct impact on energy trading performance, dispatch quality, fleet optimization, and revenue generation across distributed energy assets.The position sits at the intersection of:· Machine Learning & Reinforcement Learning· Power Market Optimization· Energy Trading· Forecasting & Dispatch· Distributed Energy SystemsThis is a highly applied role with strong production ownership. The algorithm team owns the full lifecycle from research and offline evaluation to live deployment, monitoring, tuning, and continuous optimization.Candidates with strong applied optimization or ML system backgrounds from adjacent industries are also welcome, even without prior energy market experience.Key Responsibilities· Develop forecasting and optimization algorithms for electricity markets, battery dispatch, and VPP operations· Design and improve strategies for energy trading, ancillary services participation, and distributed energy optimization· Build and deploy production-grade ML, RL, MPC, or optimization models into live fleet environments· Improve algorithm performance, operational stability, and revenue generation across distributed energy assets· Collaborate closely with EMS, cloud platform, firmware, and operations teams to support large-scale deployment and continuous optimization· Support algorithm adaptation for overseas electricity markets, including Australia NEM and European power marketsPreferred Technical Background· Strong Python development skills· Experience with machine learning, reinforcement learning, MPC, operations research, or optimization systems· Familiarity with optimization solvers such as Gurobi or CPLEX· Experience with time-series forecasting frameworks· Experience deploying algorithms into production systems· Familiarity with cloud-native or distributed system environments is a plusRequirements· 5+ years of hands-on experience in algorithm engineering, optimization, applied machine learning, or related fields· Strong experience in building production-grade optimization or ML systems· Experience with forecasting, optimization, dispatch, recommendation, control, or decision-making systems· Strong engineering mindset with end-to-end ownership mentality· Experience in energy storage, VPP, EMS, electricity markets, or energy trading is preferred· Experience in deregulated electricity markets (e.g. Australia NEM, Europe, ERCOT, CAISO) is a strong plus· Candidates from adjacent domains such as quantitative optimization, autonomous systems, logistics optimization, trading systems, or large-scale real-time decision systems are encouraged to apply