Energy Market Analyst (Senior)

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

• 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.

This role contributes to building an AI operating system for the power sector that enables a cleaner, more resilient energy future by providing real-time market insights that improve forecast accuracy and support trading strategies for renewable energy integration.

• 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.

• 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
• Remote-first work environment with balanced, flexible culture

Equilibrium Energy is a clean energy startup building a first-of-its-kind AI operating system for the power sector to enable a cleaner, more resilient energy future by uniting cutting-edge science with real-world purpose.