Senior Researcher

Apply your skills and expertise to make a real impact in the fight against climate change and the inequities of its impacts. We are seeking a Senior Researcher to join our Research and Innovation team at Slipstream. We are a national, mission-driven nonprofit that accelerates climate solutions. For everyone.

We inspire bold ideas to tackle big energy challenges. Our work spans energy efficiency, community energy planning, equitable building decarbonization, emerging technologies, and green financing. We collaborate with governments, utilities, and community-based organizations to discover, test, and scale solutions that work for real people in real communities. We are optimistic, inclusive, and ambitious about our impact—and we’re looking for someone who shares that drive.

Our Research & Innovation Team is a national leader in understanding the real-world impacts of new solutions for addressing climate change. We study, develop, and test the next generation of energy solutions across multiple sectors of the economy.

Our ideal Senior Researcher is curious, highly organized, and thrives in a collaborative, project team environment. You are an analytical thinker interested in assessing the carbon, cost, and equity impacts of different building decarbonization strategies, policies, and approaches.  You want to creatively address climate change using your expertise and curiosity. You enjoy a dynamic workplace and embrace self-motivation in your work. Show us how you lead, collaborate, and bring diverse perspectives to drive better ideas.

We encourage candidates from all backgrounds. You are key to our success by demonstrating our values, engaging in our mission, and creating results that produce enduring economic and environmental benefits for all. While we’re mostly remote, Slipstream can only hire in select states (Georgia, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Washington, and Wisconsin). While we will consider applications from those states, we currently have a strong preference for being located in the Midwest where most of our project work and fieldwork are located.

What You’ll Do:  

• Conduct primary and secondary research of building decarbonization strategies in residential, multifamily, and commercial buildings. Assist with evaluating energy efficiency, decarbonization and (to a lesser extent) renewable energy strategies in buildings, communities, campuses, or regional settings.
• Communicate and deliver innovative solutions that improve communities and buildings based on data and analysis.
• Manage research and development projects and tasks, including coordinating with cross-functional teams, and reporting results internally, to clients, and to the broader industry. Responsible for all aspects of projects/tasks from inception to delivery.
• Coordinate with stakeholders to define task objectives.
• Conduct or coordinate field research to gather information and data, which may include hands-on measurement of energy, user satisfaction, comfort, and other outcomes.
• Support efforts to seek and secure new research funding, including developing proposals and collaborating with partners.