Data Analytics and Modeling Intern - Summer 2024

Antora Energy

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San Jose, CA, United States

Posted on: 2024-02-27

Category: energy

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Employment type:

Internship

Experience required:

Intern

Salary

Salary not provided

About the company:

Antora builds and deploys thermal batteries to power always-on industrial operations with low-cost energy. Factory-built in the United States, Antora’s modular thermal batteries deliver reliable heat and power, enabling industrial facilities of any size to decarbonize predictably and profitably. Antora is electrifying global industry while supporting U.S. manufacturing jobs, lowering costs for energy consumers, and enhancing the competitiveness of American industry.

We are growing our company with people who put team and mission first, value connection through laughter and joy, and build with humility and openness. We are committed to continue building a diverse, passionate, and creative team dedicated to a future where every industrial facility, everywhere on earth, is powered by abundant, clean, low-cost energy.

At Antora, we’re on a mission to stop climate change. And we can’t do that unless we tackle the 30% of global emissions that come from industry.

Antora is unlocking zero-emissions industrial energy, cheaper than fossil fuels. Antora’s thermal batteries store energy from renewables as heat for days on end, delivering that stored energy as heat and power at the scale and temperatures that large industrial operations demand. We’re on a path to eliminate gigatons of emissions while strengthening domestic manufacturing, curbing industrial air pollution, and enhancing America’s clean energy leadership.

We are growing our company with people who put team and mission first, value connection through laughter and joy, and build with humility and openness. We are committed to continue building a diverse, passionate, and creative team dedicated to a future where every industrial facility, everywhere on earth, is powered by abundant, low-cost, zero-emissions energy.

Position Summary

This internship offers a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience in a cutting-edge research environment, contribute to meaningful projects, and collaborate with a team of dedicated professionals in the field. Overall, this position will provide you with a diverse skill set and a comprehensive understanding of scientific research, materials science, and engineering principles. We are committed to fostering your growth and development throughout your internship journey at Antora.

We are looking for an intern candidate to join our thermal battery engineering team as part of the advanced technologies group. You will collaborate with the R&D, mechanical design, and plant design teams to improve various components of our technology. In this role, you will help digest the large quantities of information that continuously come from the test rigs we use to derisk various aspects of our thermal energy storage system. To analyze this data, you will draw upon knowledge of heat transfer, materials science, and physics. You will communicate the findings from your analysis to different teams to iteratively improve our designs.

Roles & Responsibilities

As a Data Analytics and Modeling Intern at Antora Energy, you will have the unique opportunity to work closely with our team of engineers on a variety of projects. Your internship project(s) can be tailored to your specific interests and ability to work onsite. Your key responsibilities may include:

Analyze data coming from various test rigs to better inform our understanding of different components of our energy storage system in the following realms
- Accelerated lifetime testing
- Validation of finite element analysis calculations and/or explanation of differences
- Determining the state of the system with as few measurements as possible
- Quantifying system efficiency and identifying primary loss pathways
Improve our system level technoeconomic model used to understand plant operation
- Implement empirical component models to increase fidelity of the overall model
- Create more accurate analytic approximations
- Analyze simulation outputs to compare different control philosophies
Clearly communicate results to mentor and management

Key Qualifications

Enrollment: Currently enrolled in, or recently graduated from, an undergraduate or graduate program in STEM related field
Mission: Strong motivation to address climate change through the work we do at Antora
Curiosity and Learning: A strong desire to learn new concepts and methodologies and work collaboratively with mentor(s) to achieve common goals
Communication: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team environment
Interpersonal Skills: Empathy, sensitivity, and ability to effectively interact with a broad and diverse range of colleagues
Familiarity with basic concepts of heat transfer, materials science, and physics
Comfortable coding in python
Willingness to tackle hard problems outside your comfort zone
Bonus – webapp development skills to allow others at the company to access analytics tools