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# Principal Machine Learning Engineer - Revenue Optimisation at tem

- **Company:** tem
- **Location:** United Kingdom
- **Compensation:** £150k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-11
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/tem/e81f5106-ce7e-4df2-abd0-8b37b3290474

## Job description

📈 Who We Are: We are rebuilding the energy transaction, making it transparent and fair. Our goal is to put power back where it belongs, in the hands of customers and to take on one of the most critical problems of our century, access to low cost electricity. tem exists to fix a broken global energy market that’s long favoured legacy operators, intermediaries, and opaque pricing. Today’s electricity system was not designed for rapid decarbonisation, AI-driven efficiency or fair access for the actual users - businesses and generators. We’ve built the first AI native transaction infrastructure to reinvent how electricity is bought, sold and priced. Our technology is designed to cut out the inefficient fees, automate complex market flows, and bring transparency and fairness to energy transactions at scale. In late 2025, after extraordinary growth, we closed a $75 million Series B - led by Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from Albion, Atomico, Allianz, Hitachi Ventures, Hitachi Ventures, Schroders Capital and others - positioning us for global expansion, deeper product innovation and category leadership. We’re scaling internationally and building toward a future where AI-driven infrastructure is foundational to electricity markets worldwide. Since launch, our modern utility product, known as RED, has already facilitated thousands of business customers and billions in energy transaction value, proving that modern software and AI can transform an industry built on legacy systems. At tem, we’re not just building another energy company, we’re rearchitecting market infrastructure so that transparency, efficiency and sustainability become the default, not the exception.

🏅 The Role Rosso is tem's core IP. It's the transaction infrastructure that replaces what a traditional trading desk does — forecasting energy prices and volume, building a real-time picture of the portfolio, optimising the fees placed on every quote, and autonomously managing hedging decisions. All of it running continuously. All of it on the critical path for every deal tem closes. Machine learning is at the heart of it. Rosso combines forecasting, optimisation and classical ML to process billions of data points and drive thousands of automated decisions a day. Every inference shapes the prices our customers see. We've proved the concept. tem now serves 2% of the UK market. The next step is building a pricing engine that doesn't just react — one that proactively drives growth by targeting the right customers at the right time, at the right price, while protecting margin and portfolio balance. Then taking that internationally. We're looking for a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer to own pricing ML within Rosso. This is a hands-on senior IC role with real technical authority — you set the strategy, define the mathematical approach, build the models, and ship them. You work closely with MLOps and software engineers, but you don't wait on them. The hard part of this job is the formulation, not the infrastructure.

🚀 Responsibilities

- Own the technical direction for pricing ML. Define what to build and how. Set the roadmap for the pricing engine as a core piece of tem's IP — and be accountable for its performance.
- Formulate and solve the pricing problem properly. The mathematical foundation doesn't fully exist yet. Your first job is to define it: a dynamic, real-time system that simultaneously optimises for signing probability, portfolio balance, and margin. Choose the right approach — stochastic programming, reinforcement learning, classical ML, or a hybrid — based on the problem, not familiarity.
- Build and ship models end-to-end. Own the modelling and data layer. Write production-grade Python. Architect models with deployment in mind and carry them through to production — you can execute without being blocked by engineering dependencies.
- Solve imbalance problems. Develop probabilistic models to optimise risk management and short-term balancing decisions in a highly dynamic environment.
- Be the voice of pricing ML across the business. Commercial, product, and engineering teams depend on this engine. They need to understand what it's doing and why. You make that happen — clearly, without losing precision.

🎯 Requirements Must-haves:

- Deep experience building ML systems for pricing, revenue optimisation, or real-time decision-making — at companies where pricing is the product, not a supporting function. Track record of models that reached production and moved commercial metrics.
- Strong foundation in stochastic optimisation and probabilistic modelling. The judgement to formulate ambiguous business problems mathematically before reaching for a tool.
- First-principles reasoning across methods. You choose between stochastic programming, reinforcement learning, classical ML, or a simple heuristic based on what the problem demands.
- The engineering depth to match your modelling. Production-grade Python, high bar for code quality, and the ability to carry models from formulation to deployment without being blocked.
- Senior technical leadership. A track record of setting direction for a significant technical area, influencing cross-functional teams, and translating complex model behaviour into clear terms for commercial, product, and engineering stakeholders — so decisions are understood and acted on.

Bonus points:

- Experience with real-time pricing at scale — ride-hailing, food delivery, logistics, or similar environments where latency and portfolio effects matter.
- Familiarity with energy markets, power trading, or portfolio risk management.
- PhD or equivalent research depth in a quantitative discipline — statistics, applied mathematics, operations research, or similar.
- Ability to reason about trade-offs between optimisation solvers (Gurobi etc.) and gradient-based methods (PyTorch etc.), and the judgement to know when to reach for each.
- Experience with causal inference or reinforcement learning in applied commercial settings.

✨ Benefits & Perks:

- Salary: Competitive salary — we are looking to pay £150,000 or equivalent in local currency.
- We pay against a clear benchmark for your role and level. No fixed once- or twice-a-year cycle - pay moves when the evidence for it does.
- Stock Options — everyone on the team has ownership in our mission.
- 25 days holiday + public holidays — Swap public holidays for ones that matter most to you. Plus, get an extra day off for your birthday 🎉.
- Remote & flexible working — We're fully remote, distributed across Europe with clear core hours, and no internal meetings on Friday afternoons.
- Home working & wellbeing budgets:
- Up to £1,200 / €1,200 annually to upgrade your remote setup (co-working passes, equipment, etc.).
- Up to £150 / €150 monthly on anything that supports your wellbeing — from therapy to gym memberships to meditation apps.

🗣️ Interview Process Our processes normally take around 2–3 weeks from first call to offer — please let us know about any timeline adjustments you need.

- First call with our Talent Team (30 Mins). This is to understand your experience, motivations, and discuss the role in more detail.
- Behaviour Interview with our Rosso GM, hiring manage for this role (45 Mins). This is your chance to really understand the role, the expectations, and ensure alignment on ways of working.
- Technical Interview with the Team (90 Mins). You’ll meet with potential peers in this session and will discuss technical topics and experiences.
- Culture-Add Interview with Stakeholders (45 Mins). The final session will be with two cross-functional stakeholders, and will explore how your values align with ours, and is designed to be a genuine two-way conversation, your chance to understand what it’s really like to work at tem.

We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, experiences, and identities, including those that are traditionally underrepresented in the tech and energy sectors. If you’re excited about this role but not sure you meet every requirement, we’d still love to hear from you. Your unique perspective could be exactly what we’re looking for.

## About tem

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: tem is building an AI-native transaction infrastructure for energy markets, operating a modern utility (RED) that delivers cheaper, transparent electricity to businesses.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Joe McDonald (Co-Founder & CEO), Ross Mackay (Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Energy Technology / Energy Trading & Utility
- **Target customers**: B2B – primarily small-to-medium businesses and renewable generators; expanding to enterprise customers.
- **Mission**: “Universal access to the lowest-cost electricity” by reinventing how energy is bought and sold using AI.

## Products & Services
- **[RED](https://www.tem.energy/)**: A “neo-utility” experience for business customers. Provides transparent, 30% cheaper energy bills with half-hourly metering, no hidden fees, and a digital dashboard for usage and billing. Currently the only utility using tem’s infrastructure.
- **[Rosso](https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/09/tem-raises-75m-to-remake-electricity-markets-using-ai/)**: The core AI transaction engine that matches electricity generators with buyers. Uses machine learning and LLMs to predict supply/demand, automate trading, and remove intermediaries. Planned to be opened to other utilities in the future.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Over $300 million (per a source familiar with the Series B deal, reported by TechCrunch, Feb 2026).
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised – **$91.9M** (Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Lightspeed Venture Partners (lead, Series B), Atomico (lead, Series A), AlbionVC, Allianz, Hitachi Ventures, Revent, Schroders Capital, Voyager Ventures.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - 6,000+ business sites now run on RED ([tem.energy](https://www.tem.energy/)).
  - Headcount: 99 employees (LinkedIn), with +7.3% monthly growth.
  - Customers include Boohoo Group, Fever-Tree, and Newcastle United FC.
  - 26 active job postings (as of mid-2025), with monthly job postings up 52.9%.
  - Plans to expand to Australia and Texas (US) using Series B funds.

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-native infrastructure**: Replaces multiple human-driven trading desks and intermediaries with a single AI-powered transaction layer, drastically reducing costs and latency.
- **Transparency & pricing**: Customers save up to 30% on bills compared to wholesale market prices; bills are itemised with no hidden markups.
- **Marketplace dynamics**: Focus on decentralised renewable generators and small businesses creates an ideal environment for the algorithms, and the model scales to enterprise.
- **Dual business model**: RED proves the value of Rosso while generating revenue; Rosso is designed to become the AWS/Stripe of energy transactions.

## Strategic Focus
- **Near-term**: Scale RED in the UK, deepen customer base, and prove unit economics. Continue hiring across engineering, product, and growth.
- **Expansion**: Enter Australia and the US (starting with Texas) to replicate the model in deregulated markets.
- **Long-term**: Open Rosso to third-party utilities to capture all transaction flow, aiming to become the universal infrastructure for energy trading.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Mission-driven team focused on solving climate and energy affordability through technology. Described as a “classic marketplace play” with a strong engineering ethos.
- **Remote-first**: Fully remote work environment (offices in UK but most employees work remotely).
- **Growth & impact**: High-growth startup with $91.9M in funding and a clear path to IPO (CEO has stated intention to go public). Employees have the opportunity to shape the future of energy markets.
- **Open roles**: 26 active positions including ML Engineering Lead, Staff Full Stack Engineer, Senior Analytics Engineer, Principal Product Designer, and more. Strong emphasis on technical talent (32% of workforce in technical roles).
- **Perks**: Not detailed, but the remote setup, equity in a fast-scaling company, and the chance to work on AI infrastructure for a critical industry are key draws.

## Sources
1. [tem.energy](https://www.tem.energy/)
2. [LinkedIn - tem](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/tem-energy)
3. [TechCrunch - Tem raises $75M](https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/09/tem-raises-75m-to-remake-electricity-markets-using-ai/)
4. [Built In - tem energy](https://builtin.com/company/tem)
5. [Ashby - tem jobs](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/tem)

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