Senior Power Trader - PJM

36 minutes ago
Senior
Data Science and Analytics
Habitat

Habitat

Habitat specializes in optimizing battery storage and renewable energy assets, utilizing advanced data science and expertise to enhance performance and value for asset owners in the rapidly evolving clean energy sector.

Electric Utilities
11-50
Founded 2017

Description

  • Own PJM market entry, including strategy development and profit-and-loss generation.
  • Lead the build-out of proprietary trading activity in the PJM market.
  • Identify and monetize structural inefficiencies in PJM market dynamics.
  • Develop and scale profitable trading strategies, including trade selection and risk positioning.
  • Translate market insight into systematic signals, backtests, and repeatable trading frameworks.
  • Partner with Quant, Data Science, and Engineering teams to productionize strategies and improve model performance.
  • Operate within defined risk limits and maintain stop-loss, exposure control, and escalation processes.
  • Decompose trading performance into key drivers and feed insights back into strategy iteration.
  • Help shape the desk’s integration of quantitative models, risk frameworks, and automated workflows.
  • Work through market insight, strategy design, execution, and performance refinement in an ambiguous build-phase environment.

Requirements

  • Deep understanding of PJM market structure, including Day-Ahead and Real-Time dynamics, congestion formation, transmission constraints, and outage impacts.
  • Proven ability to originate, execute, and scale profitable trading strategies.
  • Demonstrated ownership of risk positioning, trade selection, and performance outcomes.
  • Strong analytical skills with experience using data to inform trading decisions.
  • Hands-on experience using Python, including pandas and NumPy, for data analysis, strategy development, or workflow automation.
  • Experience operating within defined risk limits, including stop-loss frameworks, exposure controls, and escalation protocols.
  • Ability to collaborate effectively with Quant, Data Science, and Engineering teams to productionize strategies.
  • Expertise in decomposing PnL into drivers such as congestion, outages, and forecast errors.
  • Experience in semi-systematic or fully systematic trading environments, including signal generation, model validation, and automated execution.
  • Exposure to other ISOs such as ERCOT, MISO, SPP, CAISO, NYISO, or ISONE, with understanding of strategy portability across market designs.
  • Experience with statistical modeling, optimization, or machine learning applied to trading or forecasting problems.
  • Familiarity with SQL, cloud data environments, or scalable analytics workflows.
  • Experience contributing to internal tools or trading infrastructure.
  • Ability to take a market from initial entry to scaled operation by defining processes, frameworks, and strategy architecture.
  • Strong commercial judgment and comfort operating with high autonomy and accountability.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary.
  • Personal development opportunities.
  • Supportive, challenging work environment focused on high-quality, meaningful work.
  • Opportunity to work on a fast-growing global team in Austin, Oxford, and Melbourne.
  • Shift patterns that may include some weekend and non-business-hour work.

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