Software Engineer

About the role

Responsibilities

• Build high-fidelity simulations of an entire campus, spanning PV, inverters, batteries, controls, and the data center load, so sizing decisions, dispatch strategies, degradation assumptions, and outage scenarios get stress-tested before we pour a single foundation.
• Work alongside our power systems engineers and outside stability consultants, translating what they know into models that run thousands of times a day instead of once a quarter.
• Build data pipelines that ingest and normalize the raw inputs a site design depends on, including LiDAR and DEM topography, geotech and soils data, parcel and constraint layers, irradiance and TMY datasets, and environmental overlays, into a clean geospatial substrate that automated layout can consume.
• Turn a site boundary and a set of constraints into a buildable design: grading and racking layouts, DC block topology, cable routing and losses, equipment placement, BOMs, and the drawing artifacts external engineers and EPC partners actually need.
• Compress a design cycle that takes months into one that takes days, so we can evaluate hundreds of site variants instead of three.
• Help take our energy management system in-house: real-time control, SCADA and telemetry integration, and testing infrastructure for the brain of an islanded campus, which holds frequency and voltage, manages state of charge against a load that never sleeps, coordinates inverters and batteries, and degrades gracefully when something fails.
• Own the operational safety work that comes with software controlling physical assets.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering fundamentals and a track record of shipping systems that other people depend on.
• Fluency in Python and the judgment to know where performance-critical pieces are warranted; language matters less than judgment.
• Comfort in at least one of: numerical simulation, geospatial and GIS data, real-time or embedded control systems, or computational geometry and optimization.
• The ability to work directly with domain experts, from power systems engineers to civil engineers and project developers, and turn their tacit knowledge into software. You should enjoy learning the physics.
• Bias toward first-principles reasoning and toward shipping: we have projects in construction, and software that is not in use is not finished.

Nice to have

Salary and Benefits

• Up to $15K relocation bonus
• Unlimited PTO
• Health, Dental, Vision insurance
• $1K monthly stipend for meals