Energy Market Analyst (Senior)
Equilibrium EnergyAbout our Company
Equilibrium Energy is a team of technologists, power market experts, and AI pioneers reimagining how the world’s most critical industry operates. We’re building a first-of-its-kind AI operating system for the power sector, uniting cutting-edge science with real-world purpose to enable a cleaner, more resilient energy future. At EQ, you’ll join a tight-knit group of brilliant, curious, and adventurous people who bring the same energy to collaboration as they do to innovation.
Equilibrium Energy is a well-funded, Series B clean energy startup backed by some of the most prominent institutional investors in climate. New colleagues will share our vision that a next-generation energy company must be built from the ground up on deep industry expertise combined with an unwavering commitment to modern digital approaches. We’re looking for collaborative, talented, passionate and resourceful folks to join our team and help us lay the foundation for our important mission and ambitious plan.
What we are looking for
We are looking for a Senior Energy Market Analyst who will serve as our primary link between evolving grid conditions, market events, and short-term price formation across our trading strategies. This person will maintain continuous awareness of transmission outages, topology changes, weather developments, and ISO communications, and translate these into actionable pricing context. Their insights will directly support live performance, improve forecast accuracy, and help strategy owners understand when and why the market is diverging from expectations.
This role combines strong power systems intuition with real-time operational awareness. It resembles fundamentals expertise within our Power Markets team, but with a dedicated, continuous focus on short-horizon pricing dynamics.
What you will do
Real-time and short-term market awareness
- Monitor market alerts, operational notices, derates, outages, and topology changes across ERCOT (and additional ISOs as needed).
- Track real-time system behavior, including flows, congestion patterns, and constraint activation.
- Interpret weather forecasts and conditions to anticipate impacts on load, renewables, and thermal availability.
- Maintain an up-to-date view of expected pricing based on fundamentals rather than statistical models.
Price formation and fundamentals analysis
- Analyze price behavior, system lambdas, shadow prices, and congestion outcomes to explain deviations from forecasts.
- Identify emerging drivers of price shifts and communicate them clearly and promptly.
- Contribute to topology updates, constraint model assumptions, and other inputs that shape our price forecasts.
- Develop short-horizon, fundamentals-based expectations for pricing events (“forecaster-in-the-loop”).
Post-event diagnostics
- Conduct structured reviews of significant pricing events, identifying root causes and fundamental drivers.
- Provide insights that help strategy owners refine assumptions, adjust models, and improve execution guardrails.
- Synthesize lessons learned into repeatable frameworks and tools.
Cross-functional collaboration
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- Provide real-time and short-term pricing context to strategy owners, engineers, and research scientists.
- Help build or refine dashboards and tools that improve situational awareness for the broader team.
- Communicate clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences, distilling complex system behavior into actionable insight.
The minimum qualifications you’ll need
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, power systems, operations research, physics, economics, mathematics, or a related quantitative field.
- 3+ years of experience in US electricity markets in an analytical, operational, fundamentals, or trading-adjacent role.
- Strong understanding of power system fundamentals including transmission topology, congestion formation, and unit commitment/economic dispatch dynamics.
- Familiarity with at least one nodal market, ideally ERCOT.
- Ability to monitor and interpret market events in real time, occasionally including early mornings or weekends.
- Proficiency in SQL, Python, or similar tools for data retrieval and analysis.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to explain pricing dynamics clearly.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.
Nice to have additional skills
- 5+ years of nodal market experience with demonstrated expertise in fundamentals, congestion analysis, or grid operations.
- Hands-on experience interpreting ERCOT outages, constraints, and power flow behavior.
- Experience supporting trading desks, merchant operations, or real-time analytics teams.
- Familiarity with short-term load or renewable forecasting methods.
- Experience using dashboarding tools (e.g., Plotly Dash, Streamlit, Superset).
- Proven ability to synthesize complex grid events into timely, actionable insight.
Not sure this is the right role for you?
We are a high growth company with accelerating hiring needs so there’s a great chance we’ll be able to create a custom role for you, now or in the future. All roles, titles and compensation packages are tailored to the applicant, so apply anyways and tell us in your cover letter about your dream role.
What we offer
Equilibrium is composed of deeply knowledgeable industry experts across all our functions, with decades of experience in energy-specific commercial structuring, power systems engineering, machine learning, computational research, operations research, distributed and compute-intensive infrastructure, and modern software & ML engineering. Our experience in the space means we’ve previously built versions of nearly every technical component of our platform. We are now designing them better, and combining them in a holistic and novel way, to achieve global scale and climate impact. We pride ourselves on our deeply empathetic & collaborative culture, honest and direct but respectful communication, and our balanced, flexible, and remote-first work environment.
Employee benefits include:
- Competitive base salary and a comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and 401k package
- Opportunity to own a significant piece of the company via a meaningful equity grant
- Unlimited vacation and flexible work schedule
- Accelerated professional growth and development opportunities through direct collaboration and mentorship from leading industry expert colleagues across energy and tech
Equilibrium Energy is a diverse and inclusive, equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, nationality, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.