Lead Principal, Power Applications & RealTime Orchestration

Karman; Ann Arbor (MI); Remote; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Employer-match 401k

Job summary

Karman is a fast-growing NVIDIA-backed AI company enabling AI data centers to dynamically orchestrate power and unlock more compute capacity. The Power Applications team leads end-to-end design, development, and deployment of power-control software, coordinating data scientists and engineers to deliver scalable solutions.

The Technical Lead role emphasizes architecture, code quality, and cross-team collaboration, with remote flexibility and regular on-site engagements.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including a track record of technical leadership on complex production systems.
• Ability to lead engineers through architecture, code review, and mentorship, raising the technical bar of a team.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with stakeholders across teams.
• Strong project management and technical planning skills—sequencing work and managing cross-team dependencies.
• Strong foundation in distributed systems and reliability engineering: fault tolerance, observability, and testing for systems that cannot go down.
• Experience taking software from prototype to hardened production, ideally where the platform and requirements were evolving.
• Proficiency in Python and at least one systems language (C++, Rust, or Go).
• Willingness to travel up to 10% of time.

Responsibilities

• Enable the Power Applications team to own the end-to-end lifecycle of Utilidata's power control and orchestration applications, from algorithm development, through translation into deployable software, to deployment and ongoing maintenance in production
• Directly contribute to the Power Applications codebase and work with the team to define and own code quality standards and engineering workflows
• Serve as the senior individual contributor coordinating data scientists and software engineers, aligning the group on design and quality through architecture and code review
• Design continuous delivery workflows that bridge algorithm development and production, including the path from prototype code (e.g., Python) to the deployed application's language (e.g., Rust), so work moves to production smoothly and repeatably
• Act as the technical interface between Power Applications and other teams on the stack, establishing clear system boundaries, data contracts, and power application SLAs
• Contribute to system architecture discussions for the Karman platform as a whole, ensuring the subsystems that support power-flow control fit coherently into that wider architecture
• Build for reliability and scale so power applications run continuously across experimentation, staging, and deployed environments.

Job description

Karman is a fast-growing NVIDIA-backed AI company enabling AI data centers to dynamically orchestrate power and unlock more compute capacity. The Power Applications team leads end-to-end design, development, and deployment of power-control software, coordinating data scientists and engineers to deliver scalable solutions.

The Technical Lead role emphasizes architecture, code quality, and cross-team collaboration, with remote flexibility and regular on-site engagements.