Join Our Team
Join our team of professionals who provide comprehensive, reliable energy data, analysis, and forecasts to industry, government, media, academia, and the American public. Our work promotes sound policymaking, efficient markets, and public understanding of energy and its interaction with the economy and the environment.
We are searching for candidates who qualify as statisticians, mathematical statisticians, economists, and general engineers. Although we prefer degrees in mathematics, statistics, economics, operations research, and engineering for entry-level positions, degrees in social sciences or business may qualify as well, especially if you have an emphasis on statistical data gathering and analysis. We also are looking for graduates who have taken courses in regression and linear modeling, in exploratory data analysis, and in econometrics.
Beyond the technical qualifications, we seek intelligent, flexible, and motivated employees who have good team skills and who like to think critically, innovate, and solve problems. Effective writing skills are also a definite plus.
You must be a U.S. citizen.
Current Openings
| Job openings | EIA team/office | About the work |
|---|---|---|
| Math Statistician, GS 11-13 Survey Statistician, GS 11-13 Economist, GS 11-13 |
Office of Survey Operations | Manage data collection for more than 50 surveys on fuels and markets including petroleum, uranium and nuclear fuels, natural gas, electricity and renewables and collection of price data for fuels; manage the frames using major databases and knowledge of energy systems; understand the populations from which frames and samples are drawn, and undertake research to maintain the statistical quality of frames and samples. |
| Math Statistician, GS 11-13 Survey Statistician, GS 11-13 Economist, GS 11-13 |
Office of Energy Production, Conversion & Delivery | Process data from fuel and market surveys, including comparing and integrating other data sources to recognize issues with EIA data and ultimately to produce an accurate reprensentation of energy information for use by policy makers, industry, academia, modelers, and the public. |
| Math Statistician, GS 11-13 | Office of Statistical Methods & Research | Research and develop statistical methodologies and standards for sample design, estimation, variance estimation, edits, treatments of non-response, and disclosure analyses. Develop data science techniques for frame constructions and record linkages, and evaluate administrative and third party data for augmenting EIA surveys. Build expertise in one or more specialized areas of statistics by participating in research conferences, workshops, and professional activities. |
| Math Statistician, GS 11-13 Survey Statistician, GS 11-13 Economist, GS 11-13 |
Office of Energy Demand & Integrated Statistics | Conduct the Residential Energy Consumption Survey, which measures energy demand in homes, giving policymakers and utilities state-level insight into how energy is used within households; conduct the Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey, the country’s largest and most comprehensive assessment of energy use in commercial buildings; and perform post data-collection work incuding editing, imputation, modeling and preparation of results for publication. |
| Economist, GS 11-13 | Petroleum & Liquid Fuels Markets Team | Analyze petroleum markets and contribute to reports and articles describing the analyses; contribute to short-term modeling of petroleum markets by enhancing model equations and methodologies, as well as generating and evaluating forecasts. |
| Economist, GS 11-13 | Petroleum & Liquid Fuels Markets Team | Develop, maintain, and enhance models for forecasting oil prices and global oil consumption; contribute to developing short-term forecasts for oil prices and global oil consumption |
| Economist, GS 11-13 | Electricity Coal, Nuclear, and Renewables Markets Team | Perform short-term modeling of coal supply by enhancing model equations and methodologies, generating and evaluating forecasts, and writing reports related to the forecast |
| Economist, GS 11-13 General Engineer, GS 11-13 Math Statistician, GS 11-13 |
Short-Term Integrated Products Team, Long-Term Integrated Products Team | As an integration modeler, build the framework on which other teams attach their subject matter modules (60% technical, 30% communication, and 10% assorted tasks) |
| Economist, GS 11-13 | Short-Term Integrated Products Team | As a Today in Energy coordinator, work with authors from across EIA to develop short analytical articles describing an emerging trend in energy markets |
| Economist, GS 14 Math Statistician, GS 14 General Engineer, GS 14 |
Petroleum & Natural Gas Modeling Team | As Lead Modeler for the Oil & Gas Supply Module (OGSM), support the models, mentor modelers on the team, acquire training in appropriate programming languages, and lead modeling activities for EIA’s energy outlooks (Our data processing is being adapted to Python, and our models are LPs and econometric analyses written in AIMMS, GAMS, or Fortran) |
| Economist, GS 14 Math Statistician, GS 14 General Engineer, GS 14 |
Petroleum & Natural Gas Modeling Team | As Lead Modeler for the Liquid Fuels Market Module (LFMM), mentor modelers on the team, acquire training in appropriate programming languages, lead modeling activities for EIA’s energy outlooks, and serve as a subject matter expert for EIA in liquid fuels and refining markets (The module is written in GAMS with pre-processing routines in Python and integration with other modules in Fortran) |
| Math Statistician, GS 15 Statistician, GS 15 Economist, GS 15 |
Petroleum Marketing & Downsstream Natural Gas Team | Team Lead responsible for producing the Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report (WNGSR), weekly Gasoline and Diesel Fuel Update, weekly Heating Oil & Propane Update (SHOPP), and additional monthly and annual reports. Team leads have a key role in the OES Strategic Plan, developing new programs in OES, and expanding our data science work in products. Required to be located in the National Capital Region and the incumbents will be on a 50-99% telework agreement. |
| Economist, GS 11-13 Math Statistician, GS 11-13 General Engineer, GS-11-13 |
Energy Consumption & Efficiency Modeling Team | Develop, maintain, and enhance residential and commercial demand models in support of EIA’s long-term energy outlooks and buildings-related analyses; possess general knowledge of processing and analysis techniques for large data sets; languages currently used for modules and data processing/analysis include Fortran, Python, R. |
| Economist, GS 11-13 Math Statistician, GS 11-13 |
Natural Gas Markets Team | Conduct analysis, update and run models, and develop related (visualization) tools and written summaries to support Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO) modeling and market assessment of upstream oil and natural gas production and prices. |
How to Apply
GS 11 – GS 14 positions (Remote and non-supervisory)
Hiring announcements are designated as “remote”:
Economist – https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/700077300
General Engineer – https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/699715900
Mathematical Statistician – https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/700074600
Statistician – https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/700063700
GS 15 (National Capital Region and supervisory)
Hiring announcements are designated as “non-remote”; applicants should select Washington D.C as the location:
Economist – https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/700077500
Mathematical Statistician – https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/700075900
Statistician – https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/700058600
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