gridunity - Staff Software Engineer, Applied AI
Requirements
• 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. • 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. • We build cloud-based software using TypeScript, React, Node.js, PostgreSQL, and AWS, alongside modern AI tools. • You do not need experience with every tool we use. We value sound engineering judgment and a track record of delivering reliable software that solves real customer problems. • YOUR FIRST 90 DAYS
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. • Learn our product and customers’ needs. • Identify a practical opportunity for AI to improve a customer workflow. • Build and test an initial solution, gather feedback, and recommend next steps. • Help establish approaches the team can reuse. • HOW SUCCESS WILL BE MEASURED • Success means helping customers get important work done more easily and reliably—not simply building demos or increasing AI usage. • We are a lean, fast-moving team that values bold thinking, reliability, and continuous learning. We operate with radical transparency, embrace scrappiness, and build solutions that anticipate customer needs. We also believe work should be fun and fulfilling — what we call “funfillment.” • The right candidate is energized by working in a scaling, mission-driven company where they can shape processes, wear multiple hats, and grow alongside the business.
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
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