Power & Utilities Industry AI Leader — Dispatch Optimization

C3.ai, Inc.

Redwood City (CA)

On-site

USD 130,000 - 203,000

Full time

7 days ago

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Generous equity plan

Job summary

C3 AI, a leading Enterprise AI software company, seeks an Industry Solution Leader for Power and Utilities to design and deliver AI-driven solutions for power generation, battery storage, and related operations. You will own engagements from problem definition through production deployment, collaborating with customers, engineers, and executives to drive measurable business outcomes.

The role combines senior domain expertise with delivery ownership, guiding multiple teams and ensuring value

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline.
Demonstrated experience solving complex operational problems and improving equipment reliability, production performance, throughput, yield, quality, maintenance effectiveness, energy efficiency, or operating economics.
Strong understanding of industrial equipment, manufacturing or production processes, process controls, maintenance practices, and operational workflows.
Experience with industrial data including sensor and time-series data, equipment states, alarms, maintenance history, production data, laboratory or quality information, equipment hierarchies, and engineering data.

Responsibilities

Own the overall solution strategy, technical direction, and delivery outcomes for assigned customer engagements, maintaining accountability from initial problem definition through production deployment and scale.
Serve as the primary customer-facing solution leader and domain expert, developing a detailed understanding of customer operations, equipment, processes, constraints, and business objectives.
Identify and quantify high-impact business opportunities across equipment reliability, maintenance, production performance, process optimization, throughput, yield, quality, energy efficiency, and operating economics.
Translate complex engineering and operational challenges into tractable AI, machine learning, optimization, and software problems with clearly defined requirements, success criteria, and expected business value.
Lead engagements through use case definition, requirements gathering, solution architecture, application configuration, validation, production deployment, user adoption, and scale-out.
Apply deep engineering and industry expertise to challenge assumptions, evaluate technical approaches, interpret analytical results, and ensure solutions are consistent with engineering fundamentals and operational realities.
Lead cross-functional teams of Forward Deployed Engineers, data scientists, product managers, engineers, and industry experts, establishing technical priorities and driving alignment around customer outcomes.
Work directly with customer engineers, operators, reliability teams, maintenance organizations, and executives to validate requirements, solution performance, operational workflows, and business impact.
Guide the interpretation and use of industrial data, including process signals, equipment attributes, operating states, maintenance history, production information, alarms, quality data, and other engineering information required to solve customer problems.
Maintain accountability for solution quality, business value, technical risks, delivery progress, customer adoption, and executive communication throughout the engagement.
Partner with C3 AI product management and engineering teams to identify reusable capabilities, inform product development, and scale successful solutions across assets, production lines, facilities, and business units.
Support sales teams during opportunity assessment and capture by helping define customer problems, solution approaches, business value, technical requirements, deployment strategy, and demonstrations.
Support development of statements of work and deployment plans, ensuring scope, deliverables, assumptions, data requirements, risks, timelines, and resource requirements are clearly defined.
Develop repeatable industry methodologies, solution patterns, and best practices and represent C3 AI in relevant customer, industry, and technical forums.