Staff/ Senior Staff Software Engineer, Equilibrium Energy
Data Engineering
Plus equity grant
Connective intelligence for power
Job no longer available
Connective intelligence for power
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
Plus equity grant
101-200 employees
Company mission
To accelerate the collective path to climate, energy, and societal equilibriums.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
- 7+ years of progressive experience in data or software engineering
- Advanced programming skills in Python and SQL
- Experience building globally distributed data systems and real-time pipelines
- Hands-on with orchestration/stream processing tools like Temporal, Dagster, Airflow, Spark, or Kafka
- Strong knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Cassandra)
- Familiarity with data warehousing and cloud computing (Databricks and AWS preferred)
- Experience mentoring engineers and providing architectural direction
- Strong analytical skills, with the ability to work with unstructured or ambiguous datasets
- Commitment to data quality, testing, and observability
- Experience with both OLTP and OLAP data processing systems
Desirable
- Experience with energy market data or weather data sources (e.g., NWS, NOAA, Yes Energy)
- Experience using dbt for transformations and data quality checks
- Collaborating with data science teams to build and productionize ML pipelines
- Familiarity with DataOps practices and CI/CD for data workflows
- Knowledge of real-time data technologies, graph databases, or unstructured data processing
- Understanding of power systems, grid operations, or financial aspects of energy trading
What the job involves
- As a Senior Data Engineer, you will play a critical role in shaping our long-term data architecture. You’ll lead the design and implementation of high-impact data initiatives that support energy trading, forecasting, and AI development
- This is a hands-on role that blends platform engineering, advanced data processing, and cross-functional collaboration. You’ll help scale our systems to enable near real-time decision-making and empower traders, data scientists, and operators to move faster with confidence
- Design and implement the long-term data architecture using modern technologies and frameworks
- Build and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines in Python, SQL, and dbt—ingesting data via APIs, web scraping, and streaming sources
- Develop and operate data pipelines using orchestration frameworks such as Temporal and Dagster
- Design data models and schemas for our cloud warehouse (Databricks) and relational databases; contribute to the development of our ML feature store
- Optimize workflows for performance and cost efficiency
- Drive large, cross-functional data initiatives from planning to execution
- Partner with AI and engineering teams to ensure high-quality datasets for machine learning and analytics
- Collaborate with product managers, scientists, and engineers to gather requirements and deliver robust data products
- Mentor other engineers in best practices for data ingestion, architecture, and scalable pipeline design
- Support the software testing cycle, debug code, and resolve issues found during QA or user acceptance testing
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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