FORECASTING MODELLER / STATISTICIAN

Forecasting Model Developer / Statistician: Electricity Trading At Volcore, our team of wholesale electricity traders and technical experts work together to make real-time decisions that support increasing renewable generation and keep the electricity system stable. We are a profitable and ambitious scale-up, with several full-time, on-site openings in our technical team to underpin our rapid growth. Manchester City Centre, On-site Permanent Full-Time Solve real-world energy problems, often requiring novel approaches developed through team collaboration and original research. Identify and ingest relevant data, ensuring thorough documentation in our internal knowledge base. Continually improve our shared libraries and workflows to ensure they are fast, accurate and a delight to use. Uncapped career development: We offer continuous opportunities for growth and new challenges. You will be trusted with significant projects that can immediately, visibly affect our success and the industry more broadly, leading to innovative solutions in areas that haven’t been tackled before. Including Python, Node JS / Typescript, PostgreSQL, DuckDB and Rust. At least 2 full years of experience in applied time-series forecasting, either professionally or as part of a PhD. Should include novel, practically useful, statistically rigorous work on a previously unsolved problem, especially in terms of accuracy, performance, and maintainability. Experience with real-time and online forecasting, and extracting novel, domain-specific features is particularly relevant. Strong working fluency in Python and SQL. It is fine to prefer working in R or other languages, but you must still be confident building useful code quickly and accurately using Python and SQL. Some applied experience with model deployment, productionisation and compiled languages. Ownership of projects from start to finish, with intrinsic drive to deliver high-quality work quickly. By the time this role commences, be eligible to live and work full-time in the UK. Meteorological data manipulation and physical systems modelling. This position typically attracts either strong academic researchers looking for more real-world impact, or forecasting specialists who have outgrown their previous role and are seeking more responsibility or more challenging subject matter. 40,000 to £55,000 depending on experience + participation in our bonus scheme for high-performers.