Offer Description
Description: The Energy Systems Analytics research department is looking for an energy research eager candidate to join the group. The candidate will be asked to perform the following tasks:
- To support the set up and initial development of AI driven data structure for energy modelling focused on energy communities
- To set up the process for the collection of technical, economic, social, environmental, and regulatory data from public statistics, open datasets, and literature related to energy communities’ energy consumption and demand.
- To define and establish governance rules for versioning, metadata, and access to ensure traceability.
- To design and refine optimization models for aggregated distributed-energy resources.
- To give support to the dissemination activities related to the projects where he/she will be involved (scientific papers writing, conference participation,..)
Required documents:
Applicants must submit the following documents by email to irecjobs@irec.cat; jeichman@irec.cat and gbenveniste@irec.cat, specifying 2026/84 at the tittle subject.
Reference:
- Curriculum Vitae, specifying the completed degree and any relevant professional experience.
- Motivation letter.
Offer of job position:
We offer a R2 position for 2 months in the framework of Synergec national project.
Salaries will be paid in accordance with IREC’s salary policy, depending on the candidate’s qualification and professional experience.
Requirements
Research Field: Engineering
Education Level: Bachelor Degree or equivalent
Skills/Qualifications
Essential:
- Hold a Master’s degree in Data Science or equivalent. Degree in Engineering or equivalent.
- Proven experience (>2 years) in optimisation in modelling in multi-energy carriers applied to buildings and other assets (EV, renewable energy, storage,..)
- Excellent knowledge of Python, ML, SQL
- Spoken and writing capabilities in Spanish, Catalan and English Preferred:
- Participation as author or co-author in scientific papers related to the topic
- Conferences participation in related topics
- Previous experience in participating in similar projects (National or European) related to energy modelling
Personal skills:
- Capabilities of autonomous work and research sensitivity
- Interest in joining a multidisciplinary team
- Good communication skills
Languages: ENGLISH
Level: Excellent