Grid Services Engineer — AI Data Center Dispatch (Remote)

Emerald AI; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay + equity

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) matching

Flexible location, 2 WFH days

Job summary

Emerald AI in Boston is seeking a Member of Technical Staff for the Grid Services team to build the systems that connect Emerald Conductor to the electric grid and participate in wholesale markets.

You will design and implement distributed software, forecast demand, and translate market rules into reliable production software while collaborating with control systems, platform, and AI infra teams.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience building production systems using Python.
• Reliable, distributed software systems with high correctness and availability.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure), containers (Docker/Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience building data pipelines and working with large-scale operational datasets.
• Familiarity with SQL and modern data engineering practices.
• Experience in electric utilities, ISOs/RTOs, wholesale electricity markets, or adjacent energy systems.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related quantitative field.

Responsibilities

• Design software integrations with ISOs/RTOs, utilities, aggregators, and demand response platforms.
• Develop optimization and control algorithms that determine when and how data center resources are dispatched in response to grid signals.
• Build forecasting models for electricity demand, data center load, prices and grid conditions to support market participation and dispatch decisions.
• Translate wholesale market and demand response program rules into operational software
• Build reliable data pipelines that ingest, validate, and process real-time operational and market data.
• Own software services from design through deployment, monitoring, and long-term operation.

Skills

Python

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

CI/CD pipelines

Data pipelines

SQL

Energy markets

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor/Master/PhD CS/EE

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

OR-Tools

Gurobi

Job description

Emerald AI in Boston is seeking a Member of Technical Staff for the Grid Services team to build the systems that connect Emerald Conductor to the electric grid and participate in wholesale markets.

You will design and implement distributed software, forecast demand, and translate market rules into reliable production software while collaborating with control systems, platform, and AI infra teams.