Energy Markets Analyst

Join Powerline and help revolutionize the future of the electricity grid!

We are a disruptive, VC-backed climate tech company based in Silicon Valley with offices in Australia and Europe. Our cutting-edge technology leverages machine learning and artificial intelligence to optimize renewable energy and battery storage projects on the electricity grid. Our products help project owners achieve strong economics and operational excellence, paving the way for a decarbonized and profitable future grid. We work on exciting projects with leaders in the world’s most lucrative and complex electricity markets.

We are looking for someone with deep experience in electricity market trading and operations who is excited to apply their expertise to guide our customers through the sales, onboarding and operations with out products while helping our technical teams build the next generation of energy software.

The ideal candidate is based in Europe (remote OK) and is able to travel occasionally for team and customer meetings.

About the Role

As an Energy Markets Analyst, you will serve as Powerline's internal expert on Energy Markets and Trading in Europe. You will bring your real-world experience from electricity markets to enable our customers to gain the most value out of the products suite as well as helping shape how Powerline’s AI products analyse and optimise energy assets.

You will collaborate closely with our engineering team to build our client-focused development roadmap to ensure our products solve real commercial challenges faced by energy traders, operators, and developers .

Your experience will allow you to work closely with traders, asset operators, and renewable developers to analyze market outcomes, evaluate trading and development strategies, and deliver recommendations that improve the value our solutions provided to our clients.

This role sits at the intersection of electricity markets, customers, and product development, helping translate real-world trading and operational workflows into better software and better outcomes for our customers.

Core Responsibilities

Your work will focus on two core areas:

1. Improve Powerline Products

Use your real-world market expertise, and identified customer needs, to help improve Powerline’s software and analytics.

• Work with engineers to improve AI models, analytical tools, and dashboards used by traders and asset operators.

• Provide ideas and feedback on how to improve AI models, simulations, forecasting models, and optimization algorithms.

• Translate real-world trading workflows into product requirements and feature improvements.

• Identify new analyses or tools that would help customers better understand and optimize their assets.

2. Improve Performance of Customer Assets

Work directly with traders, asset operators, and developers to help them maximize the value of their energy assets.

• Provide technical preparation and assistance with sales to new customers, take the lead on customer implementations and on-going operations

• Work closely with customers to ensure they are both successful using Powerline’s tools to make better decisions through:

  • Analysis of trading outcomes and asset performance across electricity markets.

  • Identifying opportunities to improve revenue through better trading strategies, forecasting insights, or operational decisions.

  • Delivering actionable recommendations that help customers improve asset performance and increase revenue.

  • Building customer capability and capacity to fully leverage the solutions.

• Provide insights on market dynamics and emerging opportunities in wholesale electricity markets.

Requirements

• Experience working in the Great Britain (NESO, EPEX, etc.) and/or other European Energy Markets; ideally in a role focused on spot analysis/trading, asset optimisation, or control room operations.

• Strong understanding of power market fundamentals, including dispatch dynamics, bidding strategies, and revenue drivers for energy assets.

• Experience analysing large energy datasets and extracting insights that support trading, operational, or commercial decisions.

• Comfort working with data analysis using SQL, Python, or similar analytics tools.

• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

• Ability to clearly communicate complex market insights to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Meticulous attention to detail and strong analytical rigor.

• Ability to thrive in fast-paced environments.

Strong Plus

• Experience trading or optimizing battery storage assets or renewable portfolios.

• Experience with agentic AI tools and frameworks.

• Experience building dashboards, automated reports, or market analytics tools.

• Familiarity with Python or other scripting languages for data analysis.