Senior Solutions Engineer — Climate Tech & Grid Resilience

Overstory; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Home office stipend

Coworking budget

Ongoing education budget

Flexible work environment

Job summary

Overstory is seeking a Senior Solutions Engineer to translate vegetation intelligence into operational utility impact. You will work with satellite imagery and ML-derived insights to identify risk patterns affecting power lines, delivering analyses with depth and building scalable tools for field deployment.

You will own complex engagements from plan to productization, mentoring teammates and pushing innovations that accelerate climate-resilience in the power sector.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional experience working with large, complex geospatial datasets in a customer-facing capacity.
• Proven track record of driving customer outcomes.
• Experience leading through influence: mentoring, reviewing others’ work, and establishing standards.
• Experience converting bespoke analysis into reusable tools, pipelines, or product features.
• Proficiency with an AI-powered Python-driven analytical and engineering stack.
• Demonstrated use of AI tools to change how you or your team works.
• Demonstrated attention to detail and care with data.
• Proven ability to solve ambiguous problems and collaborate with stakeholders.
• Excellent communication, including translating technical findings for non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Scope open-ended customer questions into an analysis plan and drive it to impact.
• Lead working sessions with utility operations leadership and build scalable workflows.
• Own outcomes for complex engagements and deliver value in the field.
• Be a trusted technical advisor to utility counterparts up to leadership.
• Shape how the team creates impact and establish reusable analysis patterns.
• Mentor teammates and set ways of working for investigations and documentation.
• Transform insights into productizable AI-driven capabilities.
• Lead the technical work when customer work becomes a product opportunity.

Skills

Geospatial data analysis

Customer-facing

Mentoring

AI tooling usage

Clear communication

Problem solving in ambiguity

Tools

Python

Jupyter

git/GitHub

Job description

Overstory is seeking a Senior Solutions Engineer to translate vegetation intelligence into operational utility impact. You will work with satellite imagery and ML-derived insights to identify risk patterns affecting power lines, delivering analyses with depth and building scalable tools for field deployment.

You will own complex engagements from plan to productization, mentoring teammates and pushing innovations that accelerate climate-resilience in the power sector.