Opinion Dynamics Job Opportunity: Senior Quantitative AnalystOpinion Dynamics


Posted November 10, 2022

Opinion Dynamics seeks a new team member who is passionate about bringing analytical solutions to decarbonizing the energy sector. Our ideal candidate will bring a strong quantitative skillset at the cross-section of data science, statistics, and econometrics, and be comfortable with causal inference. They will have demonstrated applied experience in those disciplines, will be able to effectively navigate the dynamic environment of a consulting firm, and be excited to work with a multidisciplinary team of data scientists, statisticians, quantitative analysts, and data engineers.

The Data Analytics group is a dynamic and tightly knit team of individuals from a range of backgrounds working closely together on analytically challenging and methodologically innovative consulting, advising, and research projects to support emerging needs in the clean energy space.

You will support analytic design and deploy a range of statistical and econometric models to quantify energy impacts and forecast potential for clean energy interventions, including energy efficiency, demand response, electric vehicles, and other distributed energy resources. Your work will span a range of data streams including interval energy consumption data, utility bill data, device telemetry data, customer data, data from secondary sources such as census, and data collected through primary data collection efforts, including equipment usage metering and submetering.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • A degree in economics, statistics, data science, quantitative social science, political science, or related field with demonstrated quantitative and analytic academic curriculum. Advanced degree is preferred
  • Two or more years’ work experience conducting quantitative analysis focused on causal inference, econometric modeling, statistical regression analysis, forecasting, including model evaluation and validation best practices
  • Strong programming skills in Python or R
  • Passionate about clean energy and desire to advance adoption of clean energy solutions with the help of creative data analytics
  • Exceptional attention to detail
  • Highly motivated, with a demonstrated track-record of thinking critically about your work and clearly communicating with other project staff and managers about your work
  • Strong written and oral communication skills, including the ability to communicate with clients as well as people at all levels of statistical knowledge in our organization
  • Ability to juggle and prioritize multiple tasks and deadlines simultaneously and flexibly

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