Quantitative Data Scientist 🤖🔬, tem
£65-90k
Energy transactions platform for renewable energy
Job no longer available
Energy transactions platform for renewable energy
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
£65-90k
21-100 employees
Company mission
Rebuilding the energy transaction system, making it transparent and fair.
Role
Who you are
- A data scientist with a passion for building and deploying models that solve real-world pricing and risk challenges
- Thinks in Probabilities: You’re comfortable treating forecasts as distributions rather than point estimates, using scenario analysis and Monte Carlo simulations to capture uncertainty
- Builds for Impact: You thrive on translating complex analytics into actionable outputs, ensuring your models have a direct influence on key business decisions
- Enjoys End-to-End Ownership: From data exploration and feature engineering to deployment and monitoring, you embrace the full model lifecycle
- Hands-On Experience: You’ve applied advanced analytics or quantitative methods in industry (finance, commodities, logistics, etc.) particularly around pricing or risk
- Proficient in Python & Cloud: You can confidently code in Python and are comfortable working in a cloud environment
- Thrives in a High-Trust Environment: You have a proactive mindset, taking initiative to learn, iterate, and deliver results independently
Desirable
- Exposure to time-series forecasting and advanced ML methods
- Startup or entrepreneurial background: you’re used to ambiguous environments and can set your own course
- Experience building portfolio-level risk models or complex pricing engines in a production environment
- Familiarity with energy markets is a plus, but not mandatory
What the job involves
- Data is at the heart of our core product, RED (Renewable Energy Direct). As our second Data Scientist, you’ll work on RED's high-impact problems and directly influence the future of renewable energy
- Join as our second data scientist and help shape tem.'s future data tech stack and contribute to the development of a world-class data science foundation
- Primarily developing and maintaining statistical and machine learning models that compute risk margins and optimised pricing for our customers
- Incorporate probabilistic frameworks that account for volume and market-price uncertainties, ensuring robust margins under different scenarios
- Work on time-series forecasting models for energy consumption/generation and underlying market prices
- Aggregate and model diverse data streams (existing contracts, pipeline deals) at varying horizons (hourly to yearly) to inform portfolio decisions
- Research & Prototyping: Experiment with new algorithms or modeling techniques (e.g., scenario analysis, optimization frameworks)
- Owning the full machine learning lifecycle, from research and development to deployment and monitoring
- Current Tech Stack: AWS (Lambda, API Gateway), Python, SQL, MLFlow, Postgres (RDS), dbt, Quicksight, Terraform/Terragrunt
Application process
- Call with our recruiter Jide
- 30 min call with Tim our Head of Data
- 2 hour technical interview including discussion
- 45 minute culture add interview with the team
Our take
tem is a next-gen energy transactions company that changes the way renewable energy is bought, sold and powered. Rebalancing the playing field away from "Big Energy", tem creates affordable, traceable and smart energy transaction management tools.
The company provides businesses and consumers with access to the same financial benefits as Big Energy companies by distributing its own purchased energy to customers. Once they’re signed up, customers are matched with a suitable generator, and the tem platform helps execute contracts, take payments, and manage invoicing.
This is a truly disruptive concept, and is proving to be a successful one. tem currently processes over £50 million in direct transactions and saves millions for over 1000 UK businesses wanting to switch from traditional utilities tied to the wholesale market. Whilst UK consumers are notoriously hesitant to switch providers, recent soaring energy prices is luring many into giving it a go.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
40% female employees
Company
Employee endorsements
Challenging work
"The projects I have worked on at tem. have involved solving greenfield problems. Each project has challenged me in a different way keeping the work..."
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2024
$13.9m
SERIES A
Jun 2023
$3.4m
SEED
Total funding: $17.4m
Company benefits
- 25 days holiday
- Day off on your birthday
- Fully remote - expect quarterly meet ups with your team
- Personal office budget £1200 / 1400€ per year
- Paid for company trip twice a year. Previous locations included Barcelona, Budapest and Marrakech.
- Wellbeing allowance of £150 / 170 € per month to spend on your wellbeing
- A generous options (stock) package
- Salary benchmarking twice a year. We aim to pay at the upper percentile (75th percentile) of the market, using London-based benchmarks. One of our core pay principles is “Same work. Same base pay.” This means we use spot rates instead of broad salary bands: everyone doing the same role at the same level earns the same base salary.
Company values
- Innovate with purpose
- Go all-in
- Keep it real
Company HQ
Nine Elms, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Joe McDonald
(Co-Founder & CEO)Resident CEO, Joe leads the creative vision behind tem. the brand, product and its platform. He is a passionate visionary who loves to climb mountains and has the most adorable dog.
Jason Stocks
(Co-Founder & Chief Commercial Officer)Jason is a world-class commercial leader with proven track scaling up high performing diverse teams. He is also a power house of high energy, high enthusiasm and a secret scuba diver instructor.
Bartlomiej Szostek
(Co-Founder & CTO)Bartek is an innovative programmer, with a craving for maximum performance, clean code and good architecture. He has a very cute baby girl who loves to join in on our calls - we’re training her young!
Ross Mackay
(Co-Founder)Data scientist, software engineer + physics whizz - Ross currently lives in the west country and will beat you hands down in a game of monopoly deal.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at tem
Charlie Stephenson (Head of People)
- Tem is all about championing small business communities, fighting for transparency and advocating for fairness in the broken energy sector. We put these principles at the heart of our business model and work hard to ensure our platform is accessible and simple for all.
- We're fully remote to ensure everyone can thrive in an environment that works best for them. Whether you prefer working from home in a Disney onesie or going to a bustling cafe, we support whatever helps you be your most effective self. Being fully remote also means we're lucky enough to hire team members from different countries and cultures and we spend time every Monday having a social call to share what makes us tick.
- We care about you and live our value of keeping it real. This means actively seeking your feedback through quarterly pulse surveys and implementing initiatives that truly matter to you. Anyone who joins us has a voice and one that is heard and valued.
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