Accepting applications on a rolling basis.

About WattTime

WattTime is a rare non-profit tech startup. We’re laser focused on helping people, companies, and policymakers who are working to drive down emissions multiply their good impact - and usually at no cost. We do this through several specific creative uses of extremely detailed emissions datasets. Founded by UC Berkeley researchers, we’re best known for inventing Automated Emissions Reduction (AER), a data-driven technique that over 100 million IoT devices now use to reduce fossil fuel use by automatically running on surplus clean/renewable energy. We also develop and share other techniques, like our Emissionality technology that more and more wind and solar farms are using to multiply their environmental impact. Today, WattTime is also the secretariat of the Climate TRACE coalition, a global team-up of nonprofits, tech companies, and universities working to use machine learning and remote sensing to provide open, transparent, independent monitoring of nearly every major individual source of GHG emissions worldwide. For more information visit www.WattTime.org.

About the Role

WattTime’s Automated Emissions Reduction (AER) team is expanding in three big ways: geographic coverage, data sources, and multiple variants of our marginal emissions product. Our small team has made great strides and identified where our software needs to be more finely tuned. In this role, we are looking for someone to build the next edition of our data using in-depth knowledge of schema designs, testing, monitoring, data pipelines, and DAGs.

Responsibilities

• Build data structures and pipelines to support multiple transformations of emissions data
• Design and build new data stores to support our expansion, e.g. a weather data store
• Exemplify clean patterns for other engineers to rapidly prototype with new data sources
• Optimize data stores for both our emissions API and our data science workflows
• Collaborate with other software engineers to ingest and clean data for ML models
• Lead by example with good patterns that level up our data and software environment

Qualifications 

The person hired for this position should be committed to driving environmental impact. All candidates should also have proven experience that includes:

• 5+ years of software experience with a focus on data
• Deep knowledge of databases with an eye toward production APIs and SLAs
• Significant experience writing clean Pythonic code or demonstrable ability to translate experience from another language
• Experience with orchestrating tasks as DAGs, e.g. AirFlow, Argo, or KubeFlow
• Flexible and willing to contribute to WattTime’s API, ML models, and product direction
• Collaborative, communicative, and respectful
• Ability to work effectively from a remote environment across regular U.S. work hours through tools like Slack, Zoom, GSuite, and others 
• Willingness to travel to team collaborative sessions a few times a year

How We Measure Success at WattTime

• Doing the work: you know your priorities and embrace flexibility
• Productivity: you complete work with urgency and deliver it on time through hard work and grit
• Quality: you leverage your subject matter knowledge to implement complex projects and practice relevant new skills
• Judgment: you make impact-focused decisions and adjustments as you work on projects and break apart problems
• Collaboration: you help others meet their goals, cultivate trust, lead with respect, and practice self awareness

Logistics

• This is a full time, remote position - work from anywhere in the U.S. 
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S. 
• For those authorized and located in the U.S., WattTime is open to U.S. visa sponsorship. As an H-1B cap-exempt, non-profit research organization, WattTime can sponsor employees for H-1B status throughout the year.
• Salary: $175,000 - $195,000 

Hiring Process

• Resume screening 
• Initial phone screening
• Technical interview #1
• Skills assessment to see your work in action
• Technical interview #2
• Half-day of interviews with the team at large
• Reference checks and offer

Read more about what it's like on this LinkedIn post from one of our fantastic engineers.

Why Work with WattTime

• Competitive salary
• Full medical, dental, vision, life insurance packages for employees and 80% coverage for dependents
• Paid parental leave 
• Flexible time off 
• Professional development support 
• Home office support and employee choice technology 
• 403b with up to 5% matching contribution
• Opportunity to work for a tech nonprofit focused on driving real impact 

What we’re like: we’re obsessed with making practical, results-driven change. We believe nothing has more potential for fast, world-changing impact than software. We embrace change. We are lean and rapid prototypers. We never confuse growth with impact. We are all personally, fiercely committed to our mission. We are quietly radical in unexpected ways. We don’t believe in competition–other people doing good work are allies. Our deep bench of expert volunteers helps us routinely punch above our weight class. We trust in data and everyone’s voice being heard. We know diversity is central to success. We consider respect non-negotiable; there are no jerks here.

How to Apply

You can apply for this position on our website at www.watttime.org. From the “About” tab, select the “Jobs” page, then select the job for which you want to apply.

Please attach your resume AND in lieu of a cover letter, answer the prompt in the application that addresses the following:

• Please tell us about your previous data engineering experience or drop us a link to code you have written

Equal Opportunity Policy 

WattTime is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, sex, sexual orientation, religion, creed, pregnancy, marital status, family care status, age, appearance, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental ability, medical condition, military or veteran status, political affiliation, genetic information or characteristics or any other consideration protected by federal, state, or local laws. We encourage all individuals to apply and are committed to a diverse workplace where every person is treated with respect and dignity.