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Principal Data Scientist

NextEra Energy • Palm Beach Gardens, FL • 6h ago

Date: Sep 8, 2026

Location(s): Palm Beach Gardens, FL, US, 33410Palm Beach Gardens, FL, US, 33410

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. Clickto learn more.

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 ourfor more information.

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