Senior Platform Engineer - AI-Driven IoT & Cloud

The Electric Plant; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Standard benefits

In-person SF office

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.