Requisition ID # 159121
Job Category: Accounting / Finance
Job Level: Manager/Principal
Business Unit: Gas Engineering
Work Type: Hybrid
Job Location: San Ramon
Department Overview
The Gas Storage Asset Management group is the functional lead for storage well integrity management and storage well re-entry work at Pacific Gas and Electric Company. The department collaborates with internal team members, stakeholders, and suppliers to manage inspections, testing, and execution of storage well project execution. The Gas Storage Asset Management group provides the leadership for the safe and timely delivery of projects associated with gas storage well infrastructure upgrades, testing, and integrity management. The primary focus of the Gas Storage Asset Management group is monitoring the integrity of the gas storage well and reservoir assets, compliance with state and federal regulations, managing project scope, delivery, and cost for those assets.
Position Summary
This position provides principal-level Data Scientist support for the Gas Storage Asset Management team. This role requires the application of data science and analytics to support management of the gas storage well and reservoir assets. This position will also assist with the department strategic objectives of positioning asset data for the future.
Position will require approximately 25% of travel time in work schedule.
This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work location based on business need. The assigned work location will be within the PG&E Service Territory (San Ramon, CA).
PG&E is providing the salary range that the company in good faith believes it might pay for this position at the time of the job posting. This compensation range is specific to the locality of the job. The actual salary paid to an individual will be based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, geographic location, and internal equity. Although we estimate the successful candidate hired into this role will be placed towards the middle or entry point of the range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to these factors.​
A reasonable salary range is: ​
Bay Area Minimum: $159,000
Bay Area Maximum: $271,000
This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E’s discretionary incentive compensation programs.
Job Responsibilities

• Creates, applies, and evaluates advanced data mining architectures / models / protocols, statistical reporting, and data analysis methodologies to identify trends in structured and unstructured data sets
• Applies and evaluates data science/ machine learning/artificial intelligence methods to develop defensible and reproducible predictive or optimization models that involve multiple facets and iterations in algorithm development.
• Writes and documents complex and reusable python functions as well as multi-modular python code for data science.
• As a technical leader, provides thought leadership in the use of a ML algorithms for solving business problems.
• Mentors junior data scientists and drives standardization in process and toolsets across the data science community at PG&E.
• Collaborates with analytics platform owners to prioritize and drive development of scalable data science capabilities.
• Acts as peer reviewer for complex models/AI algorithm proposals.
• Recognizes and prioritizes the most important work related to data science models to achieve highest operational and strategic impact for analytics in the business.
• Works with enterprise leaders as an advocate for digital transformation of the business through the adoption of data science, analytics, and data-driven business processes.
• Presents findings and makes recommendations to executive leadership and cross-functional management.

Qualifications-
Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Data Science, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Physics, Econometrics, or Economics, Engineering, Mathematics, Applied Sciences, Statistics, or equivalent field.
• 8 years in data science (or 2 years, if possess Doctoral Degree or higher)

Desired Qualifications:
Relevant industry (electric or gas utility, renewable energy, analytics consulting, etc.) experience
Experience with oil and gas data management and modeling
Proficiency managing well data with oil and gas software
Experience with underground natural gas storage
Experience responding to CalGEM and/or CPUC data requests
Experience with GIS data
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and (Technical) Competencies
Thought leadership in the external data science/artificial intelligence/machine learning community of practice, as demonstrated through peer reviewed journal publications, intellectual property/patent achievements, conference presentations, volunteering in professional organizations for the advancement of the field, participation in externally sponsored research projects, open source contributions, or similar activities.
Proficiency with data science standards and processes (model evaluation, optimization, feature engineering, etc) along with best practices to implement them.
Proficiency with commonly used data science and/or operations research programming languages, packages, and software tools for building data science/machine learning models and algorithms
Mastery in explaining in breadth and depth technical concepts including but not limited to statistical inference, machine learning algorithms, software engineering, model deployment pipelines.
Ability to clearly communicate complex technical details and insights to colleagues, stakeholders, and leadership
Leadership in developing, coaching, teaching and mentoring others to meet both their career goals and the organization goals
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