Electrical Engineer

Torus (YC S26); San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Unlimited PTO

Company-paid holidays

Job summary

Torus is seeking an unusually driven electrical engineer to join our early team in San Francisco, with frequent travel to Houston, Tulsa, and Kansas City. You’ll work with Fortune 500 clients and define what 'correct' means between our software and partners, transforming design deliverables into AI-generated outputs.

We value 2–5 years of EPC experience, familiarity with standard electrical engineering packages, SLDs, cable schedules, and load lists, and a mindset to improve how projects are

Qualifications

• 2-5 years of EPC experience is preferred.
• Familiarity with standard electrical engineering packages, SLDs, cable schedules and load lists.

Responsibilities

• Build out your discipline end-to-end with Fortune 500 clients.
• Define what 'correct' means and align AI output to engineer expectations.
• Own deliverables the AI generates for a Fortune 500 partner, from day one.

Skills

Electrical engineering

EPC experience

Judgment for correctness

Job description

Gradient is everything.

Torus is building the agentic engineering tool that physical engineering firms use to build infrastructure 10x faster. We turn design engineering work that took 6 weeks into 6 hours, and we're already working with multiple Fortune 500s and major EPCs on critical infrastructure like data centers and energy installations. We're looking for unusually driven engineers across disciplines. If you build large scale physical infrastructure like data centers, refineries, or chemical plants, we want to work with you. That means process, electrical, mechanical, civil, I&C, piping, structural, and environmental engineers. Ideally you've spent 2 to 5 years at or with EPCs, got frustrated by how they work, and got ignored when you brought up better ways to do it. You're going to help us teach the AI that will create every engineering deliverable in the world, from SLDs and load lists to P&IDs and process packages.

Who We Are

Torus was founded in May 2026 by Marcus Lima (CEO) and Rahul Thayil (CTO). Marcus previously founded Heimdal (direct air carbon capture technology and infrastructure); Oxford and Cambridge grad. Rahul previously founded Orion (AI threat intelligence and response automation). We're a team of 6 in San Francisco. You'll be a founding voice for your discipline, the person who makes the agent think like a real engineer in your field. We started Torus because AI can finally do the structured, geometry-heavy work at the core of reindustrialization, and the industry is burning for it.

What you'll do

You'll build out your discipline end to end, working directly with Fortune 500 clients. You'll turn your own hard-won judgment, the packages and deliverables you know cold, into an agent that produces work engineers actually trust. You'll sit between our software team and our partners, deciding what "correct" means and holding the AI to it. We move fast. In your first week, your input is shaping real agent output. By your first month, you'll own the deliverables the agent generates for a Fortune 500 partner in your discipline, taking work that took weeks down to hours. You'll fit if you

We’re looking for an unusually driven electrical engineer. Ideally, you’ve been working for or with EPCs for 2-5 years and have been frustrated by their way of working and ignored in the organization when you’ve brought up ideas for how to work better.

You should have a familiarity with standard electrical engineering packages, SLDs, cable schedules, load lists… You are going to help us teach the AI that will create every single SLD, load list, cable schedule in the world.

It is a big advantage if you have interacted with claude code or codex already. You will be using these tools.

AI is going to fundamentally reshape how capital projects get built. Torus is going to be the company to do it. We want you to help us build out our electrical discipline, working directly with Fortune 500 clients. Based out of San Francisco with frequent travel possible to Houston, Tulsa, Kansas City etc.

Compensation

$100,000-$200,000 annual base salary, plus 0.25%-0.50% equity. The range reflects the base salary Torus reasonably expects to pay at the time of posting. The final offer will depend on job-related factors such as relevant experience, technical depth, scope, credentials, and location. Equity is subject to the applicable plan and approvals.

Benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance; unlimited paid time off; and company-paid holidays. Benefits are subject to eligibility requirements and the terms of the applicable plans and policies.

Equal employment opportunity and accommodations

Torus is an equal opportunity employer. We consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status where protected by law, age, sex, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or related medical conditions, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, registered domestic partner status, medical condition, genetic information, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, reproductive health decision-making, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Torus provides reasonable accommodations to qualified applicants and employees with disabilities, for pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, and for sincerely held religious beliefs and practices, as required by law.