Job Description
• **BESS optimizer:**Design, build and own our multi-market BESS optimizer, covering revenue stacking, dispatch scheduling and bid generation across day-ahead, intraday and ancillary services markets. Prove it out through shadow trading against live markets, then harden it into a production-ready system for live trading in key markets.
• **Trading & optimizer tech stack:**Work closely with the trading technology team to shape our trading and optimization stack: algo bidding, forecasting inputs, ETRM and risk tools.
• **Market analysis & price curves:**Build and maintain short- and medium-term power market analysis and price curves (day-ahead, intraday, ancillary services, capacity) across Aukera's markets, underpinning trading, dispatch and investment decisions.
• **Backtesting frameworks:**Design and implement robust backtesting frameworks to evaluate trading and dispatch strategies and to benchmark internal and third-party optimizer performance.
• **Risk, PnL & reporting:**Build exposure, PnL and performance reporting for the fleet in close collaboration with the Risk Manager; help establish risk frameworks and ensure compliance with market rules.
• **Collaboration & mentoring:**Partner with investment, asset management and finance teams to translate market insight into portfolio decisions; mentor junior analysts as the team grows.
• **Trading strategies & execution:**Develop, test and, as the in-house capability matures, execute trading and bidding strategies across day-ahead, intraday and ancillary services markets in Europe.
You will join at the start of Aukera's optimization build-out, with a broad mandate and real autonomy. You will shape the models, the tooling and, over time, the trading setup of a pan-European BESS platform, with direct access to leadership and real influence on investment and route-to-market decisions.
We offer a market-competitive compensation package depending on geography.
• 5+ years in a front-office quant, trading analytics, energy trading or asset-optimization role in short-term European power markets, with exposure to flexibility assets; direct BESS experience strongly preferred.
• Strong quantitative modelling skills: BESS dispatch optimization (e.g., LP/MILP), revenue stacking, price analysis and forecasting, and scenario modelling, with a solid understanding of modelling techniques, inputs and parameters, and their limitations.
• Proven proficiency in Python and SQL, with experience building production-grade analytics: data pipelines, backtesting frameworks and dashboards. Familiarity with optimization libraries and cloud tooling a plus.
• Strong knowledge of European short-term power markets, energy exchanges and ancillary services (e.g., EPEX Spot / Nord Pool day-ahead and intraday, FCR/aFRR/mFRR, capacity mechanisms); experience in Aukera's core markets a strong plus.
• Good understanding of risk and PnL management in an asset-backed trading context.
• Experience working with, or benchmarking, optimizers and route-to-market providers is a plus.
• Relevant degree in a quantitative field (Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Economics, Finance); postgraduate qualifications or energy-trading certifications a plus.
• A pragmatic builder's mindset: comfortable in a scale-up environment where tools are built from scratch and priorities evolve quickly.
Headquartered in Belgium, we have offices in Brussels, Bucharest, London, Edinburgh, Rome, Berlin, Madrid and Seville.Aukera manage a diversified pipeline of over 15 GW in onshore wind, solar, and battery energy storage system (BESS) projects.
• **Trading & optimizer tech stack:**Work closely with the trading technology team to shape our trading and optimization stack: algo bidding, forecasting inputs, ETRM and risk tools.
• **Market analysis & price curves:**Build and maintain short- and medium-term power market analysis and price curves (day-ahead, intraday, ancillary services, capacity) across Aukera's markets, underpinning trading, dispatch and investment decisions.
• **Backtesting frameworks:**Design and implement robust backtesting frameworks to evaluate trading and dispatch strategies and to benchmark internal and third-party optimizer performance.
• **Risk, PnL & reporting:**Build exposure, PnL and performance reporting for the fleet in close collaboration with the Risk Manager; help establish risk frameworks and ensure compliance with market rules.
• **Collaboration & mentoring:**Partner with investment, asset management and finance teams to translate market insight into portfolio decisions; mentor junior analysts as the team grows.
• **Trading strategies & execution:**Develop, test and, as the in-house capability matures, execute trading and bidding strategies across day-ahead, intraday and ancillary services markets in Europe.
You will join at the start of Aukera's optimization build-out, with a broad mandate and real autonomy. You will shape the models, the tooling and, over time, the trading setup of a pan-European BESS platform, with direct access to leadership and real influence on investment and route-to-market decisions.
We offer a market-competitive compensation package depending on geography.
• 5+ years in a front-office quant, trading analytics, energy trading or asset-optimization role in short-term European power markets, with exposure to flexibility assets; direct BESS experience strongly preferred.
• Strong quantitative modelling skills: BESS dispatch optimization (e.g., LP/MILP), revenue stacking, price analysis and forecasting, and scenario modelling, with a solid understanding of modelling techniques, inputs and parameters, and their limitations.
• Proven proficiency in Python and SQL, with experience building production-grade analytics: data pipelines, backtesting frameworks and dashboards. Familiarity with optimization libraries and cloud tooling a plus.
• Strong knowledge of European short-term power markets, energy exchanges and ancillary services (e.g., EPEX Spot / Nord Pool day-ahead and intraday, FCR/aFRR/mFRR, capacity mechanisms); experience in Aukera's core markets a strong plus.
• Good understanding of risk and PnL management in an asset-backed trading context.
• Experience working with, or benchmarking, optimizers and route-to-market providers is a plus.
• Relevant degree in a quantitative field (Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Economics, Finance); postgraduate qualifications or energy-trading certifications a plus.
• A pragmatic builder's mindset: comfortable in a scale-up environment where tools are built from scratch and priorities evolve quickly.
Headquartered in Belgium, we have offices in Brussels, Bucharest, London, Edinburgh, Rome, Berlin, Madrid and Seville.Aukera manage a diversified pipeline of over 15 GW in onshore wind, solar, and battery energy storage system (BESS) projects.
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