Senior Algorithm Developer

About the role

About Energy Exemplar

In an era where the world is rapidly advancing towards a cleaner future through decarbonization, Energy Exemplar’s mission lies in ‘Empowering Transformative Energy Decisions’. Founded in 1999 in Adelaide, Australia, our award-winning software portfolio encompassing the modeling and simulation platform PLEXOS®, Aurora, and Adapt2, is trusted by innovative organizations across the globe. Through our technology and people, we strive to enable stakeholders from across the entire energy value chain to revolutionize the energy ecosystem and to collaboratively plan and execute for a sustainable energy future with unprecedented clarity, speed, and innovation.

Our impact is global and is being recognized across the industry. Some of our recent accolades include:

- SaaS Company of the Year (2025) – Global Business Tech Awards.

- Environmental Impact Award (2025) – E+E Leaders Awards.

- IPPAI (Independent Power Producers Association of India) Power Awards (2025) - Winners

- Finalist: Platts Global Energy Awards (2024) – Grid Edge category

- Finalist: Reuters Global Energy Transition Awards (2024) – Technologies of Change

- Top 50 Marketing Team (2024) – Voted by the public at the ICON Awards.

How We Work

Energy Exemplar is growing fast and that growth is driven by how we work. We trust our team to deliver great results from wherever they work best, whether that’s at home, in the office, or on the move.

We’re a global team that values ownership, integrity, and innovation. You’ll be supported to balance work and life in a way that works for you, and empowered to take initiative, solve problems, and make an impact, regardless of your background, location, or role.

Our four core values, Customer Success, One Global Team, Integrity & Ownership, and Innovation Excellence aren’t just words. They show up in how we collaborate, how we solve, and how we grow together.

About the Position

The Senior Algorithm Developer is responsible for developing and maintaining the optimization engines and ancillary calculations in our products. These form a core part of the overall company’s platform offering and require in-depth domain knowledge and mathematical programming experience. Not only does this role address the platforms content software development needs, but it also covers the technical support element to the business. This includes interaction with clients to understand the domain issues they are trying to solve, as well as the implementation of these solutions.

Key Accountabilities and Duties Algorithm Design and Development:

• Research new and emerging technologies in the energy domain (concentrating on specific areas, e.g. transmission developments, market rules, etc.) • Propose concise and performant formulation specifications for new features required • Develop the proposed feature/s while maintaining high quality coding standards (see “High Code Quality Contribution” accountability) • Design, develop, review, re-factor, and maintain software with quality and performance in mind • Collect feedback from design and technical staff on development needs • Conduct technical testing to resolve existing or introduced problems • Engage in requirement specification process for new software functionality • Produce technical documentation such as incremental design specifications and user manuals.