[Hiring] Staff Software Engineer @GridUnity

Role Description

GridUnity is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our Platform team, reporting to the Director of Engineering, Applied AI. You will turn our customer workflow vision into reliable capabilities.

You will be the dedicated technical leader partnering closely with Product, Design, engineering, and domain experts to discover high-value opportunities, build workflow capabilities, and help ensure we deliver measurable customer outcomes. You will own the technical approach for selected high-value workflows, collaborating with Product on prioritization, domain experts on engineering acceptance, and platform and application teams on implementation.

Responsibilities

• Translate customer needs into executable workflows.
• Map triggers, desired outcomes, participants, evidence, decisions, exceptions, and handoffs across full workflows and their constituent tasks.
• Build and ship capabilities.
• Implement AI-assisted experiences, typed tools, service integrations, and workflow orchestration within the existing application.
• Connect the experience end-to-end.
• Ensure assistance leads to completed work—not disconnected chat answers, reports, or recommendations.
• Extend reusable foundations.
• Build on our product's existing runtime, tools, personas, skills, and application services to improve reliable orchestration, resumability, grounded retrieval, and human approvals.
• Lead technical execution.
• Decompose opportunities into deliverable increments, resolve cross-team dependencies, and guide implementation without becoming the sole implementer.
• Evaluate real-world quality.
• Create representative scenarios and evaluations covering correctness, incomplete information, exceptions, permissions, and failure recovery.
• Measure customer outcomes.
• Partner with Product to establish baselines and assess improvements in effort, correction cycles, throughput, and decision quality.
• Preserve customer trust.
• Make uncertainty, evidence coverage, source versions, permitted actions, and approval boundaries explicit.
• Engineer for production.
• Address latency, model and tool costs, observability, safe rollout, failure recovery, prompt injection, and unauthorized tool actions.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience delivering customer-facing software and leading consequential 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 rather than substituting AI judgment for engineering authority.
• Strong software engineering skills, including APIs, structured contracts, asynchronous execution, testing, and observability.
• Experience connecting AI capabilities to real application state and authorized actions—not only building conversational prototypes.
• 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.

Preferred Experience

• 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 is valuable but not required.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation packages that recognize your expertise and contributions.
• Remote-first culture that provides flexibility and balance.
• 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 to help secure your future.
• Flexible PTO and a supportive work culture that values balance.
• Mission-driven work with the opportunity to make a significant impact in the energy sector.

Eligibility Requirement

This position may involve access to data and systems subject to U.S. critical infrastructure protection regulations. Accordingly, this role is restricted to individuals who qualify as “U.S. persons,” defined by federal law as U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents (green card holders), asylees, or refugees.

Our Commitment to Applicants

GridUnity is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, arrest and conviction record, or any other characteristic protected under applicable law.

We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where every team member feels valued, supported, and able to bring their authentic self to work.

If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process, please email [email protected].

For your security, all official communication from GridUnity will only come from email addresses ending in @gridunity.com.