Grid Analytics Researcher

Context & Environment

Why This Role Matters

You will help TotalEnergies build a scalable, transmission-focused analytics capability that directly informs major investment decisions, renewable deployment strategy, market positioning, and long-term planning. Your work will become core to how the company understands grid behavior-now and decades into the future.

Turn Grid Complexity Into the Future of Clean Energy

TotalEnergies is building a world-class grid analytics capability to support its expanding multi-energy ambitions across the U.S. and globally. We're seeking a Grid Analytics Researcher who thrives at the intersection of power systems engineering, data science, transmission modeling, and electricity market analysis . If you're passionate about understanding how the grid works-and how it's rapidly evolving-this role puts you at the center of that transformation. You will develop models, build datasets, and turn noisy real-world grid behavior into clear insights that shape decisions around nodal pricing, congestion, asset value, market forecasting, and long-term grid evolution.

Activities

What You'll Do
Advanced Grid & Market Analytics

• Build and run electric grid models to analyze transmission behavior, nodal pricing, congestion drivers, and long-term grid dynamics.
• Contribute across the entire modeling stack-including power flow, production cost modeling (PCM), and capacity expansion modeling (CEM) .

Data Science & Applied Research

• Ingest, clean, and analyze large and noisy datasets from APIs and structured markets data sources.
• Apply machine learning and statistical modeling for forecasting, pattern detection, anomaly detection, and power market insights.
• Validate results using engineering intuition, historical behavior, and known system constraints.

Model Development & Workflow Automation

• Build curated datasets for grid topology, outages, line ratings, and operational assumptions.
• Develop end-to-end modeling workflows as an internal "product"-from data ingestion to QA to delivering insights on congestion, basis risk, nodal price impacts, and asset value.

Collaboration & Innovation

• Translate macro-grid trends-renewables growth, electrification, weather impacts-into quantitative metrics used by commercial and strategy teams.
• Collaborate with national labs, startups, consulting partners, and internal global research teams.
• Support testing and technology transfer for external tools and internal research platforms.

Candidate Profile

What You Bring
Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Systems, Energy Systems, Applied Math, Computer Science, or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in transmission modeling, power system analysis, electricity markets, or similar analytical work (utility, ISO/RTO, consulting, analytics).
• Hands-on experience in major U.S. ISO/RTO nodal markets (ERCOT, PJM, CAISO).
• Strong proficiency in Python and data science libraries.
• Demonstrated experience using data analytics or ML to extract market insights from large datasets.

Preferred

• Graduate degree (M.S./Ph.D.) in Power Systems or related field.
• Familiarity with production cost modeling (e.g., PLEXOS ).
• Experience linking power flow, congestion analysis, PCM, or CEM models.
• Experience managing end-to-end modeling pipelines.
• Ability to convert market and grid trends into quantitative metrics (congestion, nodal pricing, load curves).
• Interest in U.S. grid research and policy.
• French proficiency is a plus.

Additional Information

TotalEnergies values diversity, promotes individual growth and offers equal opportunity careers.

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Working at TotalEnergies

At TotalEnergies we are committed to balancing flexibility while fostering strong relationships among our team members. Our office-based employees work together from dynamic workspaces 3 days per week to build teamwork through collaboration while also having the flexibility to work from home 2 days per week. TotalEnergies Renewables USA currently has offices in San Francisco, Boston, Austin, Houston, and NYC.

What We Provide

TotalEnergies offers a robust comprehensive benefits package available to employees on the first day of hire. These benefits include but are not limited to generous PTO, medical, dental & vision care, HSA with company contributions, health FSA, commuter benefits or paid parking, 401(k) plan with employer match, life & accident insurances, generous parental leave, education assistance, fitness subsidy and more.

International Consideration

TotalEnergies regrets that it is unable to sponsor employment Visas or consider individuals on time-limited visa status for this position.