Full-Time
Staff Data Scientist
Posted on 8/21/2026
Global Partners
51-200 employees
Midstream petroleum logistics and energy marketing
Compensation Overview
$160.5k - $240.8k/yr
Newton, MA, USA
Remote
Bachelor's, Master's, PhD
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- A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Physics, or a related quantitative field is required.
- Seven or more years of industry data science or machine learning experience, including ownership of production models, is required.
- Deep expertise in demand forecasting and price response modeling, including probabilistic output and calibration, is required.
- Experience designing and analyzing field experiments, including power analysis and randomization, is required.
- Experience building and deploying agentic and large language model automation is required.
- Experience evaluating AI systems using harnesses and benchmarks is required.
- Expert-level Python and SQL skills, along with Git, code review, automated testing, and continuous integration, are required.
- Experience with a cloud machine learning platform, including model registry, monitoring, and alerting, is required.
- Experience with a cloud data warehouse and transformation and orchestration tooling is required.
- Experience delivering results through business intelligence and application tooling is required.
- Experience raising technical quality through specification, design review, and mentoring is required.
- Strong written and verbal communication with technical and business audiences is required.
- Own demand and price response modeling end to end, from problem framing through production.
- Deliver probabilistic forecasts at daily and intraday resolution for pricing and planning use.
- Compare candidate modeling approaches against strong baselines and select on evidence.
- Define model evaluation and the criteria for promoting a model into production.
- Advance pricing from forecasting toward automated price recommendation with appropriate safeguards.
- Design and analyze pricing field experiments, including power analysis and site selection.
- Build and deploy agentic and large language model automation for analytical workflows.
- Define how AI and agentic systems are evaluated, including harnesses, benchmarks, and reusable skills.
- Set orchestration standards for scheduled model and agent workloads.
- Establish observability for models and agents in production, covering data quality, drift, cost, and alerting.
- Serve as technical design reviewer for pricing programs delivered by other teams.
- Partner with machine learning engineering to deploy, version, and monitor production models.
- Mentor data scientists and present technical work to leadership and business stakeholders.
- Reinforcement learning experience is preferred.
- AWS SageMaker experience is preferred.
- Snowflake experience is preferred.
- Experience with dbt and Dagster is preferred.
- Experience with Tableau and Streamlit is preferred.
- Domain experience in fuel, retail, or another pricing-intensive industry is preferred.
- A PhD or master's degree in Machine Learning, AI, or a related discipline is preferred.
Global Partners LP operates midstream energy logistics and marketing assets. It owns and runs terminals and fueling locations, and buys, sells, and transports petroleum and renewable fuels. It is organized into three segments: Wholesale (logistics and handling of gasoline, distillates, renewable fuels, crude, propane), Gasoline Distribution and Station Operations (distribution to stations and end-users and operation of stations and convenience stores), and Commercial (sale and delivery of unbranded fuels to commercial and residential customers). The company generates revenue from product sales and fees for logistics services, serving gasoline stations, commercial/residential clients, and government agencies, primarily in the Northeast U.S. Its goal is to provide reliable energy logistics and fuel distribution by maintaining a network of terminals and fueling locations, offering integrated supply chain services, and expanding its assets and services in energy marketing.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Waltham, Massachusetts
Founded
1933
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Q1 2026 net income rose to $70.1 million from $18.7 million.
- April 1, 2026 Orono opened Global's first Maine DC fast-charging station.
- Management raised 2026 expansion CapEx to $75 million-$85 million, excluding acquisitions.
What critics are saying
- Global sued MassDOT on August 11, 2025 over the 35-year travel-plaza lease.
- The FTC forced a 2024 divestiture in Connecticut after challenging Global's retail acquisition.
- A MassDOT loss shuts Global out of Massachusetts travel plazas through 2060.
What makes Global Partners unique
- Global Partners owns 54 terminals and 1,700 retail locations across the Northeast and Texas.
- Its vertically integrated terminals-to-store network kept Q1 2026 EBITDA at $142.1 million.
- Alltown Fresh combines food, fuel, and EV charging across 17 locations.
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Company News
Global Partners saw significant trading in its December 2026 call options, ranking amongst the highest implied volatility contracts in the equities market. The activity coincides with the partnership's Zacks Rank #1 rating in the Oil and Gas – Refining and Marketing MLP sector. The company reported first-quarter 2026 sales of $5.32 billion and net income of $64.74 million. However, investors face questions around the sustainability of distributions and cash flow resilience amid capital spending and energy transition risks. Global Partners' narrative projects $42.5 billion in revenue and $168.5 million in earnings by 2029, with a fair value estimate of $45.50. Community valuations range from $45.50 to $103.23, reflecting divergent views on the fuel-focused business facing long-term energy transition challenges and potential regulatory pressures on margins.
Global Partners LP reported strong Q1 2026 results driven by commodity price volatility and favourable market conditions. Fuel margins in the GDSO segment expanded to 41 pence per gallon, whilst the wholesale segment saw a $60.5 million increase in product margin from improved dynamics in gasoline blendstocks and distillates. The company maintained a 3.1x leverage ratio and announced its 18th consecutive quarterly distribution increase. Full-year 2026 maintenance capital expenditure is projected between $60 million and $70 million, with expansion expenditure targeted at $75 million to $85 million. Management expects steep backwardation in forward pricing curves to increase hedged inventory costs. Low PADD 1 inventory levels heading into summer driving season present operational risks. The company plans increased convenience store promotions to counter higher gasoline prices affecting consumer spending.
Global Partners LP shares rose 6.4% on Friday after reporting first-quarter adjusted earnings of $1.85 per unit, significantly exceeding the $0.33 consensus estimate. Revenue totalled $5.32 billion, up 15.8% year-over-year, though below analyst expectations of $6.97 billion. Adjusted EBITDA climbed to $140.4 million from $91.3 million, whilst adjusted distributable cash flow nearly doubled to $96.8 million from $46.5 million. The energy partnership's wholesale division drove results, with product margin increasing to $154.1 million from $93.6 million, benefiting from favourable gasoline and residual oil markets. The gasoline distribution segment also posted margin growth. Global Partners declared a quarterly distribution of $0.7650 per unit, payable 15 May to unitholders of record on 11 May.
Global Partners, a US fuel and logistics operator, has shown contrasting performance across different timeframes. The company reported revenue of $18.56 billion and net income of $72.09 million, with annual growth rates of 27.57% and 27.26% respectively. Shares are trading at $46.39, posting a 9.77% year-to-date return but declining 4.66% over one year. However, longer-term shareholders have benefited from an 86.94% three-year return and 169.37% five-year return. Valuation assessments show conflicting signals. The most popular narrative pegs fair value at $45.50, suggesting units are roughly 2% overvalued. However, a discounted cash flow model points to an intrinsic value of $73.36, implying significant upside potential. Recent terminal network acquisitions are expected to strengthen market presence, though regulatory costs on carbon emissions pose risks to future margins.
Global Partners LP has expanded its credit facility by $300 million through an accordion feature, providing short-term financial flexibility for up to 364 days. The energy company also received lender approval to reallocate $200 million from its Aggregate Revolver Commitment to working capital, whilst core terms of its December 2025 credit agreement remain unchanged. Separately, Stifel raised its price target for Global Partners from $45 to $46, maintaining a Hold rating. The company plans to increase capital expenditure to expand logistics and capacity at recently acquired terminals, and intends to implement AI capabilities to improve cost efficiencies and margins. Founded in 2005, Global Partners operates over 1,700 retail fuelling locations across the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and Texas regions.