We are seeking an Energy Analyst for either our Boulder, CO or Oakland, CA office. We’d like someone who brings industry experience, a fresh perspective and a desire to make a big impact. The ideal candidate has a strong background in the energy industry, economics, finance or engineering and exhibits high levels of leadership and professionalism.

This position will help Ascend Analytics bring energy analytics to support energy decision analysis in resource
planning, renewable generation, energy storage, energy risk management software to electric utilities and other energy industry clients. We're looking for talented individuals with a serious commitment to energy analytics, software, empirical modeling, financial engineering and portfolio management.

We are seeking an Energy Analyst for either our Boulder, CO or Oakland, CA office. We’d like someone who brings industry expertise, a fresh perspective and a desire to make a big impact. The ideal candidate has a strong background in the energy industry, economics, finance or engineering and exhibits high levels of leadership and professionalism.

This position will help Ascend Analytics bring energy analytics to support energy decision analysis in resource
planning, renewable generation, energy storage, energy risk management software to electric utilities and other energy industry clients. We're looking for talented individuals with a serious commitment to energy analytics, software, empirical modeling, financial engineering and portfolio management.

This position will involve significant technical challenges implementing, advancing, innovating,
and operating a risk-based portfolio management system for energy companies. Additional
activities will involve application configuration, data population, client interaction and
management of software specifications and requirements. Spearhead the modeling and
technical issues to implement Ascend's software products -- the products model the financial
and physical uncertainties of derivative contracts, generation assets, and retail loads. Most of
the analytic processes involve Monte Carlo simulations to value derivative contracts and
physical assets. Responsibilities focus on the ability to translate client requirements into model
configurations and automate data flows that architect the financial structure and physical asset
characteristics for each portfolio.
This position also involves computational stochastic optimization, approximate dynamic
programming, large-scale/distributed optimization, decision making under uncertainty,
dynamic programming, statistical learning, algorithms in statistics and finance applications,
stochastic search, simulating high penetrations of wind and solar energy, optimizing generation
under uncertainty, and planning and control of energy storage.

Envitonmental Science Associates (ESA) is seeking a dedicated and enthusiastic civil engineer/hydrologist to work with their existing team of hydrologists, geomorphologists, and engineers in the Bay Area (Sacramento or Oakland office preferred). Responsibilities of this position include hydrologic and hydraulic analysis, engineering design for creek and wetland restoration, and report writing.  Typical tasks may include: setting up a hydraulic model to evaluate flood risk; using GIS and rainfall-runoff analyses to evaluate development impacts; developing design drawings for stream bank stabilization; helping to collect field data for a geomorphic assessment, writing a report describing hydraulic analysis results. This position will lead to project management experience over time.

Please feel free to contact Annika Sullivan at ASullivan@esassoc.com about the position.