Staff Software Engineer, Applied AI

The role

You will turn customer workflow vision into reliable capabilities as a technical leader. You will partner with Product, Design, and domain experts to build workflow capabilities and ensure measurable customer outcomes.

What you will do

• Translate customer needs into executable workflows.
• Build and ship capabilities including AI-assisted experiences and workflow orchestration.
• Connect the experience end-to-end to ensure assistance leads to completed work.
• Extend reusable foundations like runtime, tools, and application services.
• Lead technical execution by decomposing opportunities and resolving cross-team dependencies.
• Evaluate real-world quality through representative scenarios and evaluations.
• Measure customer outcomes by partnering with Product.
• Preserve customer trust by making uncertainty and approval boundaries explicit.
• Engineer for production by addressing latency, costs, observability, and safety.

Required qualifications

• Demonstrable experience delivering customer-facing software and leading technical work across teams or services.
• Hands-on experience building production AI applications that retrieve information, invoke tools, or coordinate multi-step work.
• Effective at partnering with qualified experts.
• Strong software engineering skills, including APIs, structured contracts, asynchronous execution, testing, and observability.
• Experience connecting AI capabilities to real application state and authorized actions.
• Sound judgment about where deterministic logic, AI assistance, and human decisions belong.
• Experience designing evaluations and investigating failures involving incomplete data, ambiguous requirements, or unreliable model outputs.
• The ability to work directly with customers and domain experts, clarify ambiguous needs, and translate them into bounded, testable solutions.
• Clear communication and the ability to raise the effectiveness of other engineers through technical leadership.

Nice to have

• Electric utility, interconnection, transmission, distribution, DER, storage, or large-load workflows.
• Regulated or evidence-intensive enterprise applications.
• TypeScript, Node.js, React, and cloud-based service architectures.
• Document processing, workflow engines, engineering-tool integration, or enterprise authorization models.
• Deep electrical engineering expertise

Benefits

• Competitive compensation packages
• Remote-first culture
• Professional development opportunities, including training, mentorship, and career pathing
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance starting day one
• Short- and long-term disability and basic life insurance at no cost to you
• 401(k) plan with a 4% match
• Flexible PTO

Before you apply

• Role is restricted to individuals who qualify as U.S. persons (U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, asylees, or refugees).

About the company

GridUnity is the industry leader in interconnection life cycle management, delivering software solutions to accelerate the transition to a sustainable energy future. The company unites grid interconnection stakeholders on a single platform.