Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Intersect develops, constructs, and operates energy and data center infrastructure by co-locating industrial demand with dedicated gas and renewable power generation. The Optimization Engineer will provide technical leadership for a programmatic optimization platform that uses real-time data, forecasting models, and asset intelligence to automate energy market decisions. The role will design production optimization systems, improve trading and operational performance, and partner with engineering, trading, and operations teams to ensure scalability and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain production code for optimization, bidding, simulation, and forecasting workflows
• Develop orchestration frameworks to enable parallelization, reliability, and reproducibility
• Guide technical decisions related to data architecture, software design, and system reliability
• Establish patterns, tooling, and best practices to support scalable optimization capabilities
• Incorporate uncertainty, probabilistic forecasts, and financial risk into algorithm design while balancing performance and interpretability
• Collaborate across engineering and business teams to ensure optimization systems perform reliably in live market conditions
• Partner with trading and operations teams to create feedback loops between real-world performance and algorithmic improvements
• Advance simulation tools to accelerate parameter tuning and expand analytical capabilities

Skills

• * 5+ years of experience formulating and solving optimization problems (LP, MILP, nonlinear) in production environments
• * Familiarity with solvers such as Gurobi, XPRESS, HiGHS, or CPLEX and modeling frameworks like Pyomo, JuMP, or AMPL
• * Experience providing technical leadership and guiding system architecture decisions
• * Hands-on experience with production code, continuous deployment, and designing for scalability and reliability
• * Working knowledge of orchestration tools such as Airflow, Temporal, Dagster, Flyte, or Argo
• * Strong systems thinking and ability to collaborate across teams to ensure cohesive, high-performing solutions
• * Ability to leverage AI tools to accelerate development while maintaining high code quality standards
• * Graduate degree in operations research, engineering, economics, or a related field with a strong mathematical foundation
• * Strong knowledge of energy systems, wholesale power markets, or power plant operations
• * Experience in environments where latency and reliability directly impact business outcomes
• * Experience building and operating production infrastructure on cloud platforms such as GCP, AWS, or Azure

Benefits

• Fully flexible workplace with remote, hybrid, and in-office options
• Team Week experiences four times a year
• 100% premium coverage for you and your dependents on medical, dental, and vision
• Unlimited PTO, plus two company-wide breaks (Fourth of July & end of year)
• Up to 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave, plus 6 additional weeks for birth parents
• Access to family planning and family care support through Carrot and Maven
• Free access to Spring Health, including 5 free therapy and psychiatry sessions
• A Headspace account for mindfulness and meditation through our physical health vendor, Wellhub+
• $150 monthly food stipend
• $150 monthly reimbursement for cell phone and internet
• Pet insurance allowance
• Full home office setup
• Free access to UrbanSitter with $625 in quarterly company-paid credits
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