Senior Platform Engineer - AI-Driven IoT & Cloud

The Electric Plant

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 175,000 - 195,000

Full time

5 days ago
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Job summary

The Electric Plant Co. in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own the software platform powering our AI-enabled IoT systems. You will design and ship backend, cloud, and firmware integrations, balancing speed with reliability.

Collaborate with scientists and hardware engineers, mentor engineers in AI-assisted workflows, and build scalable APIs, dashboards, and observability for real-time plant insights.

Qualifications

  • 7–10 years of professional software engineering experience with end-to-end ownership.
  • Backend systems, APIs, distributed systems, cloud platforms, and infrastructure.
  • Designing and operating production systems with reliability, scalability, and maintainability.
  • Stack-spanning work with emphasis on backend and platform engineering.
  • Fluency with AI-augmented development workflows (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor).
  • Maturity about AI in production: ship acceleration, not slop.
  • Interest in IoT and embedded systems; exposure to MQTT or LoRaWAN.
  • Startup velocity: ship the right version for the moment.
  • Direct, low-ego communicator; honest about what's broken.

Responsibilities

  • Build and scale the platform ingesting, processing, and visualizing IoT data.
  • Design cloud architectures for large-scale distributed sensor networks.
  • Develop and maintain APIs, services, and dashboards for internal and external users.
  • Collaborate with scientists and hardware teams; mentor on AI-assisted workflows.
  • Own systems end-to-end from architecture to deployment and cost efficiency.
  • Create observability and reliability tooling to scale the platform.
  • Apply AI-assisted development tools to boost engineering velocity.
  • Contribute to technical strategy and roadmap while delivering short-term needs.

Skills

Backend systems
Distributed architectures
APIs
Cloud platforms
Infrastructure
Reliability
Frontend basics
AI-assisted development
Platform engineering

Job description

The Electric Plant Co. in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own the software platform powering our AI-enabled IoT systems. You will design and ship backend, cloud, and firmware integrations, balancing speed with reliability.

Collaborate with scientists and hardware engineers, mentor engineers in AI-assisted workflows, and build scalable APIs, dashboards, and observability for real-time plant insights.

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