[Hiring] Principal Electrical Engineer @Monterra

Role Description

Most engineering roles are about cranking out drawings at volume. This one is different. Yes, you'll develop drawings and work with clients - but you'll also work shoulder-to-shoulder with our AI and software team to encode your expertise into a system that produces electrical drawings faster and more reliably than anything the industry has seen. You won't just be doing the work. You'll be re-imagining how it gets done.

Monterra is expanding our business to stand up an AI-native engineering services company. We’re assembling a team of exceptional electrical engineers and building proprietary AI engineering assistants that compress weeks of engineering work into hours. We're starting with EV charging, where we already support many contractors and EPCs on site design & development. Our goal is to leverage AI to deliver engineering services better, cheaper, faster to clients.

We're hiring our Principal Electrical Engineer. This isn't a traditional design engineering role. In addition to delivering engineering services to clients, you'll work closely with our product & software engineering team to encode your expertise into our AI design engine and develop tools that make your (and future colleagues') work 10x faster.

In this role, your time will be split between:

• Producing and delivering permit-ready drawing packages to clients - SLDs, panel schedules, load calculations, site plans.
• Documenting the logic, rules, and judgement calls that go into every decision, working directly with our product & engineering team as the subject matter expert.
• Being a core contributor to our product roadmap, helping inform the various tedious workflows that slow you down day-to-day.

Our goal is to reimagine how engineering services are delivered and build the next-generation engineering firm, where human engineers and AI engineering assistants work together to reach the quality and speed that have been unimaginable to date.

What You'll Do

• Responsible Charge & Supervision
  • Serve as the engineer in responsible charge of stamped output.
  • Get hands-on in the drawings, especially early on - shoulder-to-shoulder with electrical engineers and AI engineering assistants.
  • Supervise electrical design engineer(s), reviewing their work and providing the engineering judgment behind every stamped package.
  • Shape the review checkpoints, QC playbooks, and supervision cadence that let us scale stamped output with AI without diluting responsible charge.
• Drawing Production & PE Stamping
  • Produce permit-ready drawing packages for customers, starting with EV charging projects - site plans, SLDs, panel schedules, load calculations.
  • Stamp and deliver completed packages to customers, owning the engineering quality and AHJ compliance end-to-end.
  • Collaborate directly with customers to understand requirements and iterate on designs based on feedback.
• Engineering Intelligence & Product Subject Matter Expert
  • Document every design decision, rule-of-thumb, and AHJ-specific requirements to coach our AI engineering assistant.
  • Develop standardized templates, symbol libraries, and drawing conventions that become the foundation of our automated output.
  • Proactively identify bottlenecks that consistently slow you down.
  • Work directly with our product & engineering team to communicate and clarify these rules, requirements, and knowledge.
• AI Review & Quality Control
  • Provide feedback and perform QC on the AI engineering assistant by validating output and testing tools as part of your drawing production workflow.
  • Maintain a structured correction log documenting every issue with root cause, code reference, and AHJ context.
  • Develop playbooks for the AI engineering assistant for different types of projects.
  • Scale your throughput to increase the number of stamped drawings we can deliver as AI output quality improves.

Qualifications

• PE license in CA, MA, or NY (other states may be acceptable).
• 7+ years of electrical design experience, with demonstrated experience producing permit-ready drawing packages.
• Deep working knowledge of NEC and experience navigating AHJ-specific requirements.
• Experience with EV charging infrastructure design.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Proficient with CAD and BIM tools.
• Qualities we value: Intensely curious, Strong team player, Pursuit of excellence, Strong sense of ownership and accountability, Self-starter, Creative problem solver.

Preferred But Not Required

• Familiarity with CAD automation, scripting, or parametric design tools.
• Comfort working with AI tools.

Benefits

• Competitive salary commensurate with experience.
• Meaningful early-stage equity.
• Benefits including health, vision, dental insurance, commuter benefits, unlimited PTO, and more.
• Remote-first; occasional travel for customer site visits and team gatherings.