Senior Data Scientist, Special Projects
Company: WattTime
Location: United States (Remote)
Salary: $170,000 - $190,000 a year
Type: Full-time
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-04-08
About this role
*Accepting applications until April 10 at 5pm E.T.*
About WattTime
is a nonprofit tech start-up. We find or conduct original research into emissions datasets that can unlock new or more effective emissions-reducing interventions, then help implement and scale those interventions. Our best known intervention is Automated Emissions Reduction (AER), the technique currently used by over 1 billion devices daily (e.g. all Nest thermostats, U.S. iPhones, Toyota EVs, etc) to cut their carbon footprints by using energy when the grid has surplus clean energy. We also enabled and scaled other techniques, like Emissionality, a technique to multiply the emissions benefits of renewable energy.
WattTime is also the secretariat of , a joint initiative of over 100 non-profits, tech companies, universities, and individual researchers pooling their expertise in AI, remote sensing, and emissions data to collectively build a highly advanced comprehensive open global greenhouse gas measurement system. Climate TRACE is a powerful enabler of novel emissions-reducing interventions, as well as an important transparency tool in its own right.
About the Role
The world of emissions data is speeding up. Between AI-based vibe coding and the tremendous consolidation happening in emissions datasets, it’s becoming more and more common that entirely new concepts for how to monitor or use emissions data to drive impact can sometimes be prototyped in as little as a day. And given WattTime’s growing prominence supporting hundreds of the world’s premiere emissions organizations, we are getting asked for possibly important new features almost daily. So we have a growing need for people who can operate in a world where it’s ever faster to develop new interventions, yet more important than ever to triage.
The role of Senior Data Scientist, Special Projects will have elements of a data scientist, product manager, and quantitative marginal gains expert. Your role will not be to dream up new poss...