Graduate Data Science Intern

 Location: Denver, Salt Lake City, or Boston 

About Us

For roughly 500,000 years, humans have been burning stuff to heat our homes, burning stuff to light our homes, and burning stuff to power our machines. It’s 2024, people. Let’s change that.

Right now, homes account for roughly 20% of the world’s carbon emissions. Here at Elephant Energy, we know that there is a better way, so we are building a one-stop shop that makes it easy to upgrade to a climate-friendly home. We enable homeowners to confidently make the switch to modern, electric technologies and get their homes off of fossil fuels – all at once, or over time.

Our History

Founded in 2021 by DR and Josh with the goal to accelerate the end of fossil fuel use, our first installation was in Boulder, Colorado in December 2021 and in three short years, we have successfully:

1. Launched a second market in Boston, Massachusetts, in summer 2023.
2. Installed >1,000 heat pumps in >500 unique homes, receiving these amazing Google reviews along the way.
3. Amassed 40+ herdmembers, with plans to continue to expand based on our early and continued success in #electrifyingeverything. 
4. Completed a successful Seed stage fundraise, with plans to raise a Series A in 2025.

About The Role

What you would be doing: 

We are seeking a highly motivated graduate student to join our team as an intern for 15-20 hours a week starting in early 2025 with an expected duration of 12 weeks or more.  This role will have the opportunity to work on real, mission-critical projects and gain valuable operating experience at a venture-funded climate-tech start up. As a member of our Product Operations group, you will: 

Big Things:

• Lead and execute a project to refine our approach to heat pump system sizing, which will require you to:
  • Extract, transform, and process data from multiple internal and external sources
  • Conduct homeowner interviews to understand the data that drives their decision-making
  • Perform exploratory analysis on data using various analytical and statistical methodologies
  • Become a subject matter expert on building decarbonization
  • Move the project forward with minimal supervision, proactively seeking out solutions to challenges
• Communicate and present findings to stakeholders, including co-founders and the leadership team
• Provide support for unplanned operational needs as assigned

As a startup, we are seeking people who are ready to roll up their sleeves, immerse themselves in the fundamentals of building a new venture, and spend the majority of their time executing.

What you won’t be doing:

• Building dashboards and/or writing code all day. While these activities will certainly be involved, you’ll need to perform qualitative research and customer interviews to supplement your quantitative work.

Timeline for role expectations:

1. Within 1-2 weeks you will define project requirements and research plans.
2. Within 1 month you will deliver early insights and recommendations.
3. Within 3 months you will communicate and present project findings to all your stakeholders, including co-founders, and share your vision for areas for future work.

About You

• You’re actively enrolled in a graduate level STEM program.
• You have previously worked in a corporate environment or have consulting experience. 
• You’ve completed undergraduate and graduate level coursework in data science or machine learning.
• You are proficient with: 
  • SQL for data extraction, transformation, and manipulation
  • Python or R for data analysis and visualization
• Experience with web scraping and data mining is a plus.
• Advanced statistics and computational skill is a plus – e.g. modeling, machine learning, programming.
• You’re excited to engage directly with homeowners to speak about the data that motivates them. 
• You have a strong interest in decarbonization and/or building science.

Total Compensation

• Hourly compensation will range between $30-35/hour.
• Flexible, hybrid work environment. 

Location: While this position is posted in Denver, Salt Lake, and Boston, Elephant Energy’s positions can be fully remote, and you can work from home. We are a Hybrid company with Herdquarters in Broomfield, Colorado, and get together as a team semi-annually in Colorado. To create the best experience for our new hire, this role does require that you are based or can consistently work within +/- 3 hours of Mountain Time Zone/in the US.

Interview Process

Here is the interview process that you can expect for this role, with estimated timelines to help set your expectations. The steps are designed to help you get the information needed to determine if we are the right fit for you.

1. Exploratory call to address your questions, discuss your motivations, and establish whether this is the role for you – with Bryan, Elephant Energy recruiter
2. Hiring Manager interview for you to gain further clarity on the project(s) we’re eager to launch in order to demonstrate your experience and fit 
3. Exercise interview anonymized to showcase your problem solving approach with Hiring Manager and Hiring Team
4. Co-Founder interview focused on how this opportunity aligns with your career ambitions and your opportunity to demonstrate passion for the problems we’re working to solve

Please note – we will welcome you to request additional conversations with anyone you would like to meet, but didn’t get to during the interview process.

Join the HERD! 🐘

Our mission is to build a more sustainable planet by electrifying everything, starting with homes.

We are assembling a high energy, creative, and ambitious team that is eager to accelerate the energy transition while building a generational business. 

We are committed to building an inclusive working environment and doing our part to create a more equitable world. We strongly encourage applicants from underrepresented and/or historically marginalized communities to apply. If you require a reasonable accommodation that would better enable your success during the application or interview process, please let us know. 

We are a certified B Corp headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado. Our growth is fueled by ever increasing demand for more comfortable and sustainable homes, as well as strong tailwinds from the Inflation Reduction Act. Our digital platform and superior team of building science and installation experts helps homeowners confidently upgrade to heat pumps, heat pump water heaters, induction stoves, energy efficient systems, and EV chargers. By combining meticulous project oversight with skilled installation partners, we ensure a seamless upgrade experience.

To date we have successfully electrified hundreds of homes in cold climates with stellar results – ensuring that our customers can confidently transition to electric living. And stop burning stuff.

Submit your application here.