About this opportunity
NextEra Energy Resources lists this Principal Data Scientist opportunity in northern, Kentucky. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Company: NextEra Energy
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.
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. To request a reasonable accommodation, please send an e-mail to , providing your name, telephone number and the best time for us to reach you.
NextEra Energy will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.
NextEra Energy does not accept any unsolicited resumes or referrals from any third-party recruiting firms or agencies . Please see our policy for more information.
Nearest Major Market: Palm Beach
Nearest Secondary Market: Miami
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