Junior Modelling Software Engineer

Origin is Aurora's flagship power market model. It forecasts power prices, generation, capacity expansion and investment across more than 20 electricity markets. The model helps answer some of the biggest questions in the energy transition.

Where should new power plants be built? What will consumers and businesses pay for electricity? How can a country reach net zero?

Governments, utilities, developers, investors and traders use its results to make decisions worth billions of dollars. Origin brings together optimisation, power system simulation, market modelling and modern software engineering. It's a large Python codebase, with optimisation components written in GAMS and solved with MOSEK, running in Docker containers on AWS.

You don't need any experience with GAMS, MOSEK or optimisation to apply. The opportunity Origin is a mature model with clients around the world, but the São Paulo development team is new. You'll be one of its early engineers and you'll help shape how it works.

São Paulo is already Aurora's modelling hub for the Americas. The analysts and market experts who use Origin every day sit in the same office, so you'll see first-hand how your work gets used. Your squad works as one team across Oxford and São Paulo, and it's still growing.

The squad lead hands out work based on skills, whichever office you're in. Your line manager will be a Modelling Software Engineer or above, and may sit in a different squad. This is an entry-level role, and you'll own real fea