Senior Software Engineer

The role

You will own the software platform that turns foundation models and IoT hardware into a usable product. You will build and scale systems for ingesting, processing, and visualizing IoT data using cloud infrastructure, APIs, and dashboards.

What you will do

• Build and scale the platform that ingests, processes, and visualizes IoT data.
• Design and evolve cloud architectures for large-scale, distributed sensor networks.
• Develop and maintain APIs, services, and dashboards.
• Partner with scientists, hardware engineers, product, and deployment teams.
• Help the team build internal tools using AI-augmented development workflows.
• Own systems end-to-end from architecture to deployment and monitoring.
• Build observability, reliability, and operational tooling.
• Use AI-assisted development tools as a core part of your workflow.
• Contribute to technical strategy and roadmap.

Required qualifications

• 7–10 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Demonstrated history of owning production systems end-to-end.
• Strong experience building backend systems, APIs, distributed systems, cloud platforms, and infrastructure.
• Experience designing and operating production systems with reliability, scalability, and maintainability.
• Comfort working across the stack.
• Real fluency with AI-augmented development workflows (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or equivalent).
• Excited by IoT and embedded systems.

Nice to have

• Experience building AI-enabled or ML-powered products.
• Prior experience at a deep-tech or hardware-software company.
• Wireless / LoRaWAN experience
• Exposure to firmware or protocols like MQTT or LoRaWAN

Benefits

• Standard benefits
• Meaningful equity package

About the company

The Electric Plant Co. is building a new category of plant and tree intelligence using IoT hardware and foundation models. They are a small, fast-moving company in San Francisco working at the intersection of biology, hardware, AI, and IoT.