Senior Data Scientist

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LG Energy Solution Vertech, Inc. (LGES Vertech) is a full‑service energy storage system supplier and integrator. Using our core strengths of expert service to our customers, unparalleled safety, and excellence in manufacturing, we bring standardized, fully integrated energy storage systems to a rapidly growing worldwide market. Our systems address our customers’ needs to reduce capital equipment and installation costs while enhancing system‑level performance and reliability using automated monitoring systems and analytics across the battery, power conditioning, and auxiliary systems.

Our AEROS® energy operating system is the engine of innovation to provide advanced control functions, allowing our customers to maximize the value of their energy storage assets. Our service capabilities include advanced monitoring and analytics, scheduled maintenance, augmentation, and auxiliary system upgrades. The combination of excellence in battery technology and production, coupled with nearly two decades of energy storage integration, makes LGES Vertech a supplier and integrator in the power and energy markets.

LGES Vertech empowers and expects its team members to assume responsibility and make good decisions while maintaining a team environment that fosters collaboration and innovation. Our diverse and growing team enjoys competitive salaries, generous benefits, and flexible working hours.

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LGES‑Vertech is seeking a highly motivated Senior Data Scientist to join our AI & Data Science team. This role will be the key driver in the research, design, and deployment of our Advanced Energy Optimization core engine for power market and its associated software solution, built for battery energy storage systems (BESS). You will act as a subject matter expert, applying advanced AI/ML, optimization, statistical techniques to maximize the commercial value of BESS assets.

This is a high‑impact, hands‑on role for a technically deep and creative problem‑solver. You will directly influence how data science enhances the commercial value, availability, and performance of our BESS fleet by building and deploying an end‑to‑end intelligent trading system.

• Drive the end‑to‑end development of the energy optimization engine, integrating with trading algorithms, from initial R&D and algorithm prototyping to production deployment.
• Utilize a deep understanding of operations research and optimization principles to create algorithms that determine the most profitable optimization strategies for BESS assets, considering physical constraints and market rules.
• Design, build, and deploy predictive models for forecasting energy market fundamentals and risk assessment, critical for the optimal BESS trading strategies.
• Work closely with cross‑functional teams, including product, energy market analysts, engineering, and Dev Ops, to define requirements, integrate models into production pipelines, and deliver scalable, cloud‑integrated data products.
• Stay abreast of cutting‑edge AI/ML and optimization research, applying new techniques like reinforcement learning and deep learning to enhance energy trading model performance.
• Lead the transition of AI/ML models from research to production, ensuring robust, scalable, and efficient software development practices, including modular code, query optimization, and documentation.
• Leverage expertise in handling large‑scale, noisy time‑series data to analyze market trends, evaluate model performance, and derive actionable insights.
• Serve as a technical resource and mentor for junior team members, contributing to the strategic technical roadmap for the AI/Data Science team.

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Electrical Engineering, Operations Research, or a related quantitative discipline.
• 6+ years of experience in data…