Join Us

There's no posted job here. We're small, we're growing carefully, and what we take on next depends a lot on who we meet. If the work below sounds like what you want to be doing, get in touch. It might turn into a full-time role, it might be a single project, or it might just be a conversation about work we could go after together.

The work

We do independent, public-interest research on the energy transition. Most of it comes back to the future of gas: what happens to a system that keeps adding pipe while it loses the customers who pay for it. That question turns into work on gas utility economics, non-pipeline alternatives, neighborhood-scale electrification, and integrated planning. It usually gets settled in front of a regulator, so that's often where we end up. We work for municipal governments, state agencies, environmental organizations, and public interest groups, and we publish what we find.

What we're looking for

Most people who reach out will probably be senior enough to run an engagement on their own: own the analysis, stand behind it in front of a client or a commission, and write it up so it lands. If you're earlier in your career and you're good, tell us why and show us something.

We're not screening against a checklist. We want real depth in at least one place. Any of these would be a strong addition:

• Bringing in work. You've won projects, landed funding, or built the relationships that lead to both.
• Energy systems modeling. Hydraulic flow, power systems, life cycle analysis. Quantitative work you can defend line by line.
• Utility economics and regulation. Rate design, depreciation, cost of service, and a feel for how a commission actually decides things.
• Analytical tooling. Reproducible code, data pipelines, spatial analysis, visualization that carries an argument. That includes using AI well: verifiably, where it makes the analysis or the writing better, and with a clear sense of where it doesn't.
• Regulatory practice. Testimony, discovery, comments, and the knack for making a technical case to people who aren't technical.

Practical details

We work remotely and we're anchored in the Boston area. Most engagements are in Northeast and Midwest jurisdictions, though not always.

Write to jobs@groundworkdata.org. Send a resume and a few paragraphs, in your own words, about what you'd want to work on here and what you'd bring. A writing sample is welcome but not required.