Staff / Senior Staff Software Engineer, Equilibrium Energy
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Connective intelligence for power
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Connective intelligence for power
101-200 employees
Open for applications
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To accelerate the collective path to climate, energy, and societal equilibriums.
Role
Who you are
- Passion for clean energy and fighting climate change
- BS/Master's degree in a quantitative discipline (e.g., Computer Science, Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Mathematics, Economics, Physics, Electrical Engineering) or equivalent practical experience
- Software development experience in Python, Go, Julia, C, or Rust
- 8 years of relevant work experience
Desirable
- PhD degree in a quantitative discipline (e.g., Computer Science, Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Mathematics, Economics, Physics, Electrical Engineering)
- 8 years of relevant work experience, including expert software engineering fundamentals and experience building software to support ML and AI pipelines, and associated data structures
- Expertise in Go, Python, C, Rust, or Julia. Experience with orchestration tools like Temporal
- Advanced proficiency across a range of data engineering tools (ELT, streaming, pub-sub, relational DBs, object DBs, GraphDBs, etc.)
- Deep expertise across any one of our tech stack domains: cloud infrastructure, data platform and engineering, IOT, MLOps and ML pipelines, simulation ecosystems, workflow orchestration, microservices orchestration, and/or application development
- Familiarity supporting and releasing ML/AI models that drive operational workflows (e.g., models that run and produce new inferences every hour of the day)
- Proactive communicator who can translate product design specs into organized code
- Experience communicating the results of analyses with product, engineering, and leadership teams to influence product and engineering strategy
- Demonstrated proactivity and self-direction. Willingness to teach as well as learn
- Excellent team collaboration skills and collaboration-first mentality
What the job involves
- Our software engineers work across cloud infrastructure and distributed systems, data engineering, ML engineering and MLOps, simulation ecosystems, complex workflow orchestration, microservices mesh, application development and security
- In the near-term, you will work with other software engineers, data engineers, infrastructure engineers, ML engineers, data scientists, researchers and product managers to execute our ML- and AI-infused product development plan en route to growing our company
- In the medium-term, you will cultivate our software engineering function by nurturing a culture of experimentation and delivery. You will design, write and optimize software to support our end-to-end product development ambitions, helping to build the core of our competitive differentiation
- Lead the design, development, testing, delivery and support of software systems across our technical stack that drive our end-to-end product development ambitions
- Cloud and distributed systems development - contribute to building and maintaining our cloud-native platform and infrastructure; K8s, cluster management, linux containers, etc
- Data Platform and Engineering - our use cases are varied and so are our data engineering needs. From stream, batch, pub-sub, queuing, state stores, virtualization, complex data models and closed-loop pipelines, we’ve got a little bit of everything
- ML Engineering and MLOps - we aim to infuse EVERY business process with ML and AI, relying on closed-loop decision-making at every valuable juncture
- Simulation ecosystem - our ML- and AI-centric workflows need training and testing
- Workflow orchestration - we live in the land of complex, autonomous, multi-step sequential workflows operating in a distributed runtime with low latency requirements
- Service mesh - we rely heavily on reuse of core microservices to keep application development productivity high, which requires thoughtful service mesh management
- Application development - we’ve just started designing and developing across our anchor product suites, each focused on leveraging a common platform and service core
- DevSecOps - security is inherently embedded within our development and operations practices, and we leverage bespoke security techniques for some unique exposures
- Assist in product development strategy, design, planning and productivity
- Contribute your unique technical, user, and market knowledge to product strategy
- Contribute to product and architectural design
- Contribute to product roadmapping, resource planning and sprint management
- Contribute to product development productivity improvements, including best practices, technical documentation, code reviews and automation / utility / abstraction packages
- Serve as a member of our technical team across both engineering and research
- Collaborate asynchronously with engineers, researchers and product managers across time zones to design, build and ship code
- Contribute to technical strategy and planning across the company
- Represent Equilibrium in external venues, including presenting work at conferences and contributing to open-source projects
Our take
Amidst the rapid growth of renewable energy across global power grids, there is an urgent demand for effective energy storage and portfolio management solutions. Equilibrium Energy is stepping onto the stage to tackle this challenge, combining energy expertise with advanced technology to navigate the complexities of increasingly dynamic and volatile power markets.
Centered on grid-scale battery deployments and broader portfolio optimization, Equilibrium partners with developers and operators to address pivotal financing and operational gaps, as seen in its landmark 100MW battery tolling agreement in Texas with Jupiter Power. This integrated approach helps energy companies and independent power producers maximize performance, efficiency, and profitability across diverse assets.
Recently the company closed a $28M funding round led while launching its flagship software platform, EQ Mission Control™. The platform unifies fragmented data and systems, allowing real-time, AI-powered portfolio optimization and decision-making. By embedding augmented intelligence throughout its workflows, EQ Mission Control™ helps customers unlock unprecedented insights, maximize returns, and manage risk across batteries, renewables, and other energy assets.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Mar 2025
$28m
LATE VC
Oct 2024
$39m
SERIES B
Total funding: $100m
Company benefits
- Professional Growth: Do your best work in our relentlessly innovative, cross-functionally organized teams. Leverage your current expert skillset while growing new areas of expertise.
- Competitive Rewards: Doing good can also mean doing well. We offer competitive pay, significant ownership stakes, and ever-increasing modern benefits.
- Compassionate Culture: Innovation doesn’t have to be cutthroat. Relish working alongside the most talented and most supportive colleagues in your career.
- Transform Power: Build the revolutionary capability necessary to modernize power and transform the backbone of society.
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Ryan Hanley
(Co-Founder & CEO)Graduated from the University of California with an Master's in Business Administration. Previously served as a Grid Services Director at Tesla and as the CPO at AMS. Also worked as an Energy Platform General Manager at Shell.
Ashley Smith
(CCO)Prior to joining Equilibrium Energy in 2025, Ashley spent 4 years at The AES Corporation as Chief Technology & Innovation Officer. Before that, she spent 4 years at Shell, as a Senior Principal of Shell Ventures, GM of Strategic Business Development (Renewable Power), and Director of Business Transformation (Power & Gas).
Mark Grimshaw
(CRO)Prior to joining Equilibrium Energy in 2025, Mark spent over 9 years at Korn Ferry as CCO, CRO, Executive Director of Consultancy & Partners, and as a Senior Partner. He also spent 3 years at Hewlett-Packard as VP of Business Development, Global Account Executive of Global FTSE 100 Bank and FTSE 100 Insurance Company.
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