Intern, Data Engineering

Compensation: $25.00/hour

Location: Brooklyn, NY (Hybrid)

About The Company:

NineDot's name derives from the classic mathematical puzzle for sparking out-of-the-box solutions. As a leading community-scale, clean energy developer with a growing portfolio of projects across a range of technologies, NineDot Energy is creating innovative energy solutions that support a more resilient electric grid, deliver economic savings, address environmental justice and reduce carbon emissions. We plan to develop, build and operate more than 400 MW of clean energy systems by 2026 that will strengthen the local power grid infrastructure and provide clean, reliable and resilient power to tens of thousands of New York households and businesses. This is all in support of New York State’s mission to achieve 100% clean energy by 2040.

With the backing of Manulife Investment Management and The Carlyle Group - two of the world’s leading infrastructure investors - NineDot is continuing to expand its core battery energy storage pipeline, deliver enhanced products and services, explore new regions and consider potential acquisitions all to advance the decarbonization of New York’s grid. This is an exciting opportunity to build a platform from the ground-up with a world-class team of developers and innovators. NineDot is committed to building a company that exemplifies diversity, equity and inclusion values in its team culture, as well as business practices and community engagement.

Job Summary

We are looking for a highly motivated Data Engineering Intern for the summer of 2025 to join our mission to deliver clean energy. Our company has grown rapidly and we’re adapting accordingly. You will work with our data engineering and analytics team to refine and scale our systems. In this role you could potentially work on a variety of areas, including identifying valuable new data sources, transforming data, automating a process, or introducing a new framework. Ultimately you will contribute to streamlining work, leveraging data, and delivering insights into our company and industry. This is an excellent opportunity to get hands-on software experience and also gain domain knowledge in the cleantech industry.

Responsibilities:

• Work with users to understand challenges and design impactful, software-based solutions.
• Integrate new data sources into systems. These might include data from business process tooling, telemetric data, or GIS data, among others.
• Develop and maintain data pipelines and orchestration. Code and integrate your pipelines with schedules and other control components.
• Model data depending on its use: (de)normalization, retaining change histories, validation, etc. Depending on the project this might also entail developing a report or dashboard to present data to users.
• Research new technologies and tools to increase productivity and quality.
• Automate routine activities across the business and software development (devops).
• Work with cloud infrastructure, including BIgQuery and other GCP services.
• Structure your work as phases of the software development lifecycle, performing best practices in requirements gathering, design process, and documentation.

Core Competencies:

• Collaborates - Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
• Drives Results - Constantly achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
• Interpersonal Savvy - Relating openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people.
• Manages Ambiguity - Operating effectively, even when things are not certain or the way forward is not clear.
• Nimble Learning - Actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both success and failures as learning fodder
• Plans and Aligns - Planning and prioritizing work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals.
• Tech Savvy - Anticipating and adopting innovations in business-building digital and technology applications.

Required education and experience:

• Rising Junior or Senior currently enrolled in a relevant 4-year degree program (e.g., Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, etc.).
• Programming foundations - exposure to coding through coursework or a project. We often work in Python but knowledge in other common languages will transfer (e.g., Java, JavaScript, C++). 
• Database basics - exposure to database concepts and SQL through coursework or a project.
• Strong research and analytical skills.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Eagerness to learn and contribute to an agile, innovative work environment.

Additional Information:

• Internship duration: Summer 2025
• Hybrid work model based out of our office in Brooklyn, NY
• Opportunity to gain exposure to industry professionals, cutting-edge technologies, and New York’s clean energy initiatives.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.  

Affirmative Action/EEO statement

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and committed to leveraging the diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experience of our workforce to create opportunities for our colleagues and our business. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, gender expression, gender identity, sex, age, ancestry, marital status, protected veteran and military status, disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other status of an individual or that individual’s associates or relatives that is protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.