Principal

Stanford Climate Ventures; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation with equity

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Health Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

Unlimited PTO with minimum 3 weeks

Top-line hardware and modern dev stack

Access to latest AI agent systems

Visa support for US-based candidates

Job summary

CVector is seeking a Principal backend engineer to evolve our time-series data systems and AI-assisted analytics, powering industrial energy workflows from our New York City office. You will own the backend platform, drive major migrations, and shape architecture across AI systems, databases, and distributed backend services.

Collaborating with product, modeling, and frontend engineers, you will influence platform direction, reliability, and long-term scalability while delivering real-world

Qualifications

• A decade or more of experience building and operating production backend systems.
• Built and maintained multiple generations of distributed systems.
• Tracking the latest developments in agentic system design and AI-enabled platforms.

Responsibilities

• Own the backend platform, time-series data systems, and AI-assisted analytics.
• Build and operate cloud infrastructure and data ingestion pipelines powering customer-facing apps and internal modeling tools.
• Drive major migrations and architectural decisions to scale reliability and performance.
• Collaborate with product, modeling, and frontend engineers to shape platform direction and long-term scalability.

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

AI systems

Time-series data

Tools

Python

TypeScript

Supabase

PostgreSQL

MQTT

TigerData

AWS

GitHub

Job description

CVector’s mission is to bring real time economic optimization and AI prediction to every energy and manufacturing plant.

Industrial facilities make decisions every minute that determine cost, reliability, and margin, but the signals that matter live in different worlds: live asset constraints and process reality on one side, feedstock prices, product prices, demand, and market dynamics on the other. We fuse those worlds into one decision layer that continuously forecasts what is coming, simulates what could happen, and optimizes what to do next, so plants can run closer to their true economic potential every day.

This position works from our New York City office four days per week. CVector has customers across the United States and operates real-world systems in demanding industrial environments.

Role Overview

As a Principal, you will play a critical role in evolving CVector’s core backend platform. You will work on time-series data systems, AI-assisted analytics, cloud infrastructure, and data ingestion pipelines that power our customer-facing applications and internal modeling platforms.

This role is well-suited for an engineer who enjoys working close to the data and infrastructure layers, has strong architectural judgment, and is excited to operate across AI systems, databases, and distributed backend services. You will take ownership of complex systems, drive major technical migrations, and help shape how intelligence is embedded into industrial energy workflows.

You will collaborate closely with product, modeling, and frontend engineers, and you will have significant influence over platform direction, reliability, and long-term scalability.

Why This Role Matters

This role sits at the intersection of AI systems, time-series data, and real-world energy infrastructure. Your work will directly impact system reliability, customer trust, and CVector’s ability to scale intelligent energy management across industries.

If you enjoy solving deep backend problems, shaping platform foundations, and embedding intelligence into physical systems, this role offers both technical challenge and real-world impact.

Our current technology stack includes Python, TypeScript, Supabase, PostgreSQL, MQTT, TigerData, AWS, and GitHub-based CI/CD workflows.

A strong candidate will:

• Show how they have left their fingerprint on your corner of the industry, ambitious to do it again
• Have a decade or more of experience building and operating production backend systems
• Have built and maintained multiple generations of distributed systems
• Be tracking the latest developments in agentic system design, ready to grow a leading edge system of their own

CVector provides team members with:

• A competitive compensation package with meaningful equity upside
• A robust selection of health, dental, and vision insurance options
• Optional Health Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Unlimited PTO with a three week minimum per year, plus additional sick days
• Top of the line work equipment and IT setup, including high performance laptops and a modern developer stack
• Unlimited access to the latest AI agent systems and productivity tools to help you move faster and build better
• Visa support for candidates currently based in the US, including employer sponsored visa applications where applicable