Principal Data Scientist

About the role

Requisition ID:   97073    NextEra Energy Resources is one of America’s largest wholesale electricity generators, harnessing diverse energy sources to power progress. We deliver tailored energy solutions that fuel economic growth, strengthen communities, and help customers achieve their energy goals. Ready to make a lasting impact? Take the next step in your career with us!   Position Specific Description Power Generation Division (PGD) is looking for a Principal Data Scientist to support predictive monitoring, equipment diagnostics, and advanced analytics across power generation assets. This role helps improve reliability, asset health visibility, and proactive maintenance decision-making by delivering scalable analytical solutions for operational use.    This position requires a strong combination of data science, software development, production deployment, and power generation analytics experience. The individual will partner with reliability engineers, equipment subject matter experts, operations teams, and software developers to ensure solutions are technically sound, operationally useful, and aligned with business objectives.    Employees in this role provide technical leadership for advanced analytics, equipment diagnostics, and predictive monitoring solutions supporting Power Generation assets.    Responsibilities Include: Leads development and enhancement of equipment diagnostic algorithms, predictive monitoring models, and analytical applications   Applies statistical and logic-based methods to identify failure signatures, equipment issues, and asset health trends   Converts analytical methods into production-ready implementation logic, documentation, and technical specifications   Validates, back-tests, deploys, monitors, troubleshoots, and continuously improves analytical solutions   Supports production data workflows, integrations, cloud deployment, and model migration   Partners with reliability engineers, equipment SMEs, operations teams, and software developers to deliver practical solutions   Provides technical guidance, review, and mentoring to data scientists and technical team members   Clearly communicates technical findings, model performance, and business recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences   Performs other job-related duties as assigned     The Ideal Candidate Would Have The Following: Experience with regression, decision trees, rules-based logic, anomaly detection, and statistical analysis   Experience with Python, SQL, AWS, GitHub/Bitbucket, APIs, ETL workflows, and CI/CD   M.S. or Ph.D. in a quantitative, technical, or engineering-related field   Power generation, utility, renewable energy, industrial operations, or predictive maintenance experience   Data engineering experience building scalable production data pipelines and integrations  Job Overview This position is responsible for leading the development of algorithms, modeling techniques, and optimization methods that support many aspects of NextEra and FPL business. Employees in this role use knowledge of machine learning, optimization, statistics, and applied mathematics along with abilities in software engineering with a focus on distributed computing and data storage infrastructure (i.e., “Big Data”). Job Duties & Responsibilities Provide thought leadership, set technical strategy, and identify possible uses of data science methods Explain methods and results to upper-level executives Develop machine learning, optimizations or other modeling solutions Oversee related employee work, learn new techniques being developed Prepares comprehensive documented observations, analyses and interpretations of results including technical reports, summaries, protocols and quantitative analyses Works with big data and distributed computing platforms Develops software and contributes to product development Performs other job-related duties as assigned Required Qualifications Bachelor’s Degree Experience: 6+ years Preferred Qualifications Master’s Degree Doctoral Degree   NextEra Energy offers a wide range of benefits to support our employees and their eligible family members. Click here to learn more.   Employee Group:  Exempt Employee Type:   Full Time Job Category:  Science, Research, and Technology Organization:  NextEra Energy Resources, LLC  Relocation Provided:  Yes, if applicable   NextEra Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, age, national origin, religion, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetics, disability, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law.    NextEra Energy and provides reasonable accommodation in its application and selection process for qualified individuals, including accommodations related to compliance with conditional job offer requirements, consistent with federal, state, and local laws. Supporting medical or religious documentation will be required where applicable and permitted by applicable law. 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