Senior AI Engineer, Energy Intelligence Platform

Elpho; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Elpho seeks a senior software engineer who has transitioned into AI and shipped AI/ML systems to production for energy data centers. You will build AI agents that operate with live power and cooling equipment, ensure safe guardrails, and integrate with Azure OpenAI and AKS.

Hybrid in Atlanta with remote options across the US. You will own alarm handling, forecasting, and knowledge retrieval, collaborating with field teams to improve models and deliver reliable energy optimization across BESS,

Qualifications

• 8–10+ years of professional software engineering (backend or distributed systems).
• 2–3+ years building AI/ML that shipped to production.
• Strong Python, plus production experience in at least one backend language (C#/.NET, Go, Java, or TypeScript).
• LLM application engineering: agents and tool calling, retrieval-augmented generation, context design, and structured outputs.
• Classical ML and time-series: forecasting, anomaly detection, and optimization.
• Evaluation discipline: measure model and agent quality before and after release.

Responsibilities

• Alarm and operations agents — AI agents that triage alarm and event streams, correlate them with live telemetry and the site’s digital twin, and recommend or execute responses inside approved guardrails, with human-in-the-loop approval.
• Optimization and forecasting — load and price forecasting, BESS dispatch, cooling and HVAC setpoint optimization, demand-charge management, and anomaly detection on high-frequency time-series data
• Knowledge and retrieval — retrieval-augmented answers grounded in SOPs, procedure libraries, equipment manuals, point lists, and the site knowledge graph
• Guardrails and safety — deterministic policy checks, action limits, approval workflows, and full audit trails
• Evaluation — offline evaluation harnesses, backtesting against historical site data, LLM quality metrics, and cost and latency budgets
• Production engineering — AI services on Azure (Azure OpenAI, AKS or Functions, Event Hubs) exposed through APIs
• Field feedback — use operators' acceptance to improve models and explain model behavior to operators and customers

Skills

Python

Backend development

AI/ML production

LLM application engineering

Time-series forecasting

Model evaluation

Azure cloud services

Safety and reliability

Tools

Azure OpenAI

LangGraph

Semantic Kernel

scikit-learn

PyTorch

Azure ML

AKS / Event Hubs

Job description

Elpho seeks a senior software engineer who has transitioned into AI and shipped AI/ML systems to production for energy data centers. You will build AI agents that operate with live power and cooling equipment, ensure safe guardrails, and integrate with Azure OpenAI and AKS.

Hybrid in Atlanta with remote options across the US. You will own alarm handling, forecasting, and knowledge retrieval, collaborating with field teams to improve models and deliver reliable energy optimization across BESS,