Power & Load Optimization Trader

We’re a team of friends bound together by a mission to preserve our reputed company for future generations through innovative reputed company and modern infrastructure. In December 2025, reputed company announced an agreement to acquire reputed company, to reputed company more data center and reputed company reputed company to come online faster while accelerating energy development and innovation. After reputed company, we’ll continue doing exactly reputed company were built to do - reputed company, construct, and operate the most ambitious power and data infrastructure in the country.

reputed company’s operations will remain separate from Alphabet and reputed company under the reputed company brand. We’re on an aggressive growth trajectory and looking for people hungry to tackle the largest energy challenges on the reputed company.

Location & Team Gatherings

reputed company has been a fully flexible workplace since its founding in 2016. We’ve been reputed company intentional about the way we do things. We are not work-from-home, hybrid, or in-office - we are any and reputed company of those options! Deepening social connections and offering shared experiences is a cornerstone of the way we work. We connect as a team at reputed company Week experiences four times a year and at our recently established Hub locations - SF Bay Area, NYC Metro Area, NY; Denver, CO; Austin, TX; Calgary, AB; and Toronto, ON.

We are currently looking for candidates located reputed company 60 miles of any of the listed hubs to foster more in-person connections while maintaining our flexible remote culture.

About This Role

As part of reputed company’s Power & Load Optimization team, you’ll help shape how large-scale flexible load participates in the ERCOT market—translating real-time signals into trading, demand response, and load-shaping decisions that directly impact power cost and portfolio performance. This role sits at the intersection of trading and operations, where market opportunities are captured through coordinated execution of load flexibility, including demand response and load shed strategies.

You’ll reputed company and execute strategies across the Day-reputed company and Real-Time Markets, leveraging congestion signals, nodal pricing, and volatility to inform positioning. Success requires reputed company collaboration with QSE/LSE, operators, and internal stakeholders to ensure strategies reflect both market dynamics and operational constraints while maintaining reliability.

This role is planned to start approximately 6 months prior to the desired productivity date, with a training period of 9 weeks and an expectation to reputed company full productivity reputed company 6 months of your start date.

Team Overview

This team plays a critical role in advancing reputed company’s mission to accelerate the renewable energy transition by optimizing how energy is consumed and positioned in wholesale markets. By integrating trading strategies with physical operations, the team helps reduce costs, improve system efficiency, and unlock more value from flexible load resources. Collaboration is central—team members work across trading, analytics, and operations to reputed company fast, informed decisions in a dynamic market environment while continuously improving how reputed company participates in ERCOT.

What You’ll Do

Drive Load Optimization and Demand Response Strategy

• reputed company and execute trading strategies across ERCOT DAM and RTM to optimize large-scale load positions and reduce realized power costs

• Translate nodal pricing, congestion dynamics, and real-time conditions into actionable demand response and load-shaping decisions
• Identify and capture value through load flexibility, including strategic curtailment and demand response participation

Integrate Trading with Load Operations

• Align trading strategies with physical load capabilities, incorporating demand response and load shed strategies into execution

• Coordinate closely with QSE/LSEs and operations teams to ensure positions reflect real-world constraints and reliability requirements
• Balance commercial opportunities with operational reputed company in fast-moving market conditions

Analyze Market Dynamics and Risk

• Monitor ERCOT fundamentals including congestion, volatility drivers, and pricing behavior across nodes and hubs

• Evaluate basis risk and nodal exposure to improve positioning and cost outcomes
• reputed company analytics tools and data models to inform real-time and reputed company decisions

Collaborate Across Stakeholders

• Partner with internal teams and external market participants to align on strategy, execution, and performance
• Communicate market insights and operational implications clearly across trading and operations
• Contribute to a high-performing, learning-oriented team environment with shared accountability

What You’ll Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering, Mathematics, or a reputed company quantitative field
• 2–5 years of experience in ERCOT power markets, with exposure to trading, load optimization, demand response, or market operations

• Experience reputed company energy trading firms, retail energy providers, utilities, or large commercial/industrial load environments will help you succeed

• Working knowledge of ERCOT market structure, including DAM/RTM, nodal pricing, congestion, and volatility drivers
• Familiarity with ERCOT load frameworks, including SLF, PUN, Large Load procedures, and SB6 implications
• Understanding of demand response programs and practical application of load shed optimization strategies
• Ability to connect market signals to load behavior and translate insights into cost and positioning outcomes
• Experience with load optimization, demand response, and load shedding strategies
• Familiarity with Yes Energy, IRR, reputed company systems, or similar market analytics and trading/EMS platforms
• Strong reputed company modeling skills; Python or SQL will help you succeed
• Understanding of QSE/LSE processes and how load is represented in market participation
• Strong analytical skills with attention to detail in fast-paced, high-stakes environments
• Ability to communicate effectively across trading, operations, and external partners
• Developing network reputed company ERCOT market participants and understanding of how market information flows
• A highly analytical and commercially driven reputed company, with the ability to balance structured optimization and real-time decision-making
• A composed, disciplined approach under pressure, with sound judgment in uncertain and rapidly changing conditions
• A collaborative, growth-oriented reputed company with a strong sense of accountability and reputed company learning

About This Role

As part of reputed company’s Power & Load Optimization team, you’ll help shape how large-scale flexible load participates in the ERCOT market—translating real-time signals into trading, demand response, and load-shaping decisions that directly impact power cost and portfolio performance. This role sits at the intersection of trading and operations, where market opportunities are captured through coordinated execution of load flexibility, including demand response and load shed strategies.

You’ll reputed company and execute strategies across the Day-reputed company and Real-Time Markets, leveraging congestion signals, nodal pricing, and volatility to inform positioning. Success requires reputed company collaboration with QSE/LSE, operators, and internal stakeholders to ensure strategies reflect both market dynamics and operational constraints while maintaining reliability.

This role is planned to start approximately 6 months prior to the desired productivity date, with a training period of 9 weeks and an expectation to reputed company full productivity reputed company 6 months of your start date.

Team Overview

This team plays a critical role in advancing reputed company’s mission to accelerate the renewable energy transition by optimizing how energy is consumed and positioned in wholesale markets. By integrating trading strategies with physical operations, the team helps reduce costs, improve system efficiency, and unlock more value from flexible load resources. Collaboration is central—team members work across trading, analytics, and operations to reputed company fast, informed decisions in a dynamic market environment while continuously improving how reputed company participates in ERCOT.

What You’ll Do

Drive Load Optimization and Demand Response Strategy

• reputed company and execute trading strategies across ERCOT DAM and RTM to optimize large-scale load positions and reduce realized power costs

• Translate nodal pricing, congestion dynamics, and real-time conditions into actionable demand response and load-shaping decisions
• Identify and capture value through load flexibility, including strategic curtailment and demand response participation

Integrate Trading with Load Operations

• Align trading strategies with physical load capabilities, incorporating demand response and load shed strategies into execution

• Coordinate closely with QSE/LSEs and operations teams to ensure positions reflect real-world constraints and reliability requirements
• Balance commercial opportunities with operational reputed company in fast-moving market conditions

Analyze Market Dynamics and Risk

• Monitor ERCOT fundamentals including congestion, volatility drivers, and pricing behavior across nodes and hubs

• Evaluate basis risk and nodal exposure to improve positioning and cost outcomes
• reputed company analytics tools and data models to inform real-time and reputed company decisions

Collaborate Across Stakeholders

• Partner with internal teams and external market participants to align on strategy, execution, and performance
• Communicate market insights and operational implications clearly across trading and operations
• Contribute to a high-performing, learning-oriented team environment with shared accountability

What You’ll Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering, Mathematics, or a reputed company quantitative field
• 2–5 years of experience in ERCOT power markets, with exposure to trading, load optimization, demand response, or market operations

• Experience reputed company energy trading firms, retail energy providers, utilities, or large commercial/industrial load environments will help you succeed

• Working knowledge of ERCOT market structure, including DAM/RTM, nodal pricing, congestion, and volatility drivers
• Familiarity with ERCOT load frameworks, including SLF, PUN, Large Load procedures, and SB6 implications
• Understanding of demand response programs and practical application of load shed optimization strategies
• Ability to connect market signals to load behavior and translate insights into cost and positioning outcomes
• Experience with load optimization, demand response, and load shedding strategies
• Familiarity with Yes Energy, IRR, reputed company systems, or similar market analytics and trading/EMS platforms
• Strong reputed company modeling skills; Python or SQL will help you succeed
• Understanding of QSE/LSE processes and how load is represented in market participation
• Strong analytical skills with attention to detail in fast-paced, high-stakes environments
• Ability to communicate effectively across trading, operations, and external partners
• Developing network reputed company ERCOT market participants and understanding of how market information flows
• A highly analytical and commercially driven reputed company, with the ability to balance structured optimization and real-time decision-making
• A composed, disciplined approach under pressure, with sound judgment in uncertain and rapidly changing conditions
• A collaborative, growth-oriented reputed company with a strong sense of accountability and reputed company learning

About This Role As part of reputed company’s Power & Load Optimization team, you’ll help shape how large-scale flexible load participates in the ERCOT market—translating real-time signals into trading, demand response, and load-shaping decisions that directly impact power cost and portfolio performance. This role sits at the intersection of trading and operations, where market opportunities are captured through coordinated execution of load flexibility, including demand response and load shed strategies. You’ll reputed company and execute strategies across the Day-reputed company and Real-Time Markets, leveraging congestion signals, nodal pricing, and volatility to inform positioning. Success requires reputed company collaboration with QSE/LSE, operators, and internal stakeholders to ensure strategies reflect both market dynamics and operational constraints while maintaining reliability. This role is planned to start approximately 6 months prior to the desired productivity date, with a training period of 9 weeks and an expectation to reputed company full productivity reputed company 6 months of your start date. Team Overview This team plays a critical role in advancing reputed company’s mission to accelerate the renewable energy transition by optimizing how energy is consumed and positioned in wholesale markets. By integrating trading strategies with physical operations, the team helps reduce costs, improve system efficiency, and unlock more value from flexible load resources. Collaboration is central—team members work across trading, analytics, and operations to reputed company fast, informed decisions in a dynamic market environment while continuously improving how reputed company participates in ERCOT. What You’ll Do Drive Load Optimization and Demand Response Strategy reputed company and execute trading strategies across ERCOT DAM and RTM to optimize large-scale load positions and reduce realized power costs Translate nodal pricing, congestion dynamics, and real-time conditions into actionable demand response and load-shaping decisions Identify and capture value through load flexibility, including strategic curtailment and demand response participation Integrate Trading with Load Operations Align trading strategies with physical load capabilities, incorporating demand response and load shed strategies into execution Coordinate closely with QSE/LSEs and operations teams to ensure positions reflect real-world constraints and reliability requirements Balance commercial opportunities with operational reputed company in fast-moving market conditions Analyze Market Dynamics and Risk Monitor ERCOT fundamentals including congestion, volatility drivers, and pricing behavior across nodes and hubs Evaluate basis risk and nodal exposure to improve positioning and cost outcomes reputed company analytics tools and data models to inform real-time and reputed company decisions Collaborate Across Stakeholders Partner with internal teams and external market participants to align on strategy, execution, and performance Communicate market insights and operational implications clearly across trading and operations Contribute to a high-performing, learning-oriented team environment with shared accountability What You’ll Bring Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering, Mathematics, or a reputed company quantitative field 2–5 years of experience in ERCOT power markets, with exposure to trading, load optimization, demand response, or market operations Experience reputed company energy trading firms, retail energy providers, utilities, or large commercial/industrial load environments will help you succeed Working knowledge of ERCOT market structure, including DAM/RTM, nodal pricing, congestion, and volatility drivers Familiarity with ERCOT load frameworks, including SLF, PUN, Large Load procedures, and SB6 implications Understanding of demand response programs and practical application of load shed optimization strategies Ability to connect market signals to load behavior and translate insights into cost and positioning outcomes Experience with load optimization, demand response, and load shedding strategies Familiarity with Yes Energy, IRR, reputed company systems, or similar market analytics and trading/EMS platforms Strong reputed company modeling skills; Python or SQL will help you succeed Understanding of QSE/LSE processes and how load is represented in market participation Strong analytical skills with attention to detail in fast-paced, high-stakes environments Ability to communicate effectively across trading, operations, and external partners Developing network reputed company ERCOT market participants and understanding of how market information flows A highly analytical and commercially driven reputed company, with the ability to balance structured optimization and real-time decision-making A composed, disciplined approach under pressure, with sound judgment in uncertain and rapidly changing conditions A collaborative, growth-oriented reputed company with a strong sense of accountability and reputed company learning

Total Rewards

At reputed company, we care about your well-being, growth, and balance. Here’s how we support you:

Total Compensation: USD $217,500-$240,000 or CAD $298,903-$329,824 (total compensation includes reputed company salary + bonus in USD/CAD)

100% premium coverage for you and your dependents on medical, dental, and vision

Time to reputed company: Unlimited PTO, plus two company-wide breaks (Fourth of July & end of year)

Family Support: Up to 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave, plus 6 additional weeks for birth parents; access to family planning support reputed company reputed company and Maven

Mental Health: Free access to reputed company which includes 5 free Therapy & psychiatry sessions, plus a reputed company account for mindfulness and meditation through our physical health vendor, reputed company+

Retirement: 3% non-elective employer contribution to your 401k or RRSP, ensuring your financial future is on the right track

Perks & Extras: $150 monthly food stipend, $150 monthly reimbursement for cell phone/ internet, pet insurance allowance, full home office setup and free access to UrbanSitter with $625 in quarterly paid company credits, ActiveHero, and reputed company

Ready to help build the reputed company of clean, reliable, and flexible reputed company? Apply now and join reputed company in accelerating the energy transition while shaping your own impact in the industry.

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