Staff Engineer, Datacenter Power & Telemetry Systems

emerald-ai; San Francisco, Boston, Washington (CA, MA, District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) matching

Flexible location

Job summary

Emerald AI is building an edge-to-cloud platform that optimizes power usage in AI data centers. We’re hiring an engineer to design real-time telemetry pipelines and integrate with datacenter power and compute systems, turning raw data into safe, reliable control software.

You will own end-to-end projects, shape system architecture, and collaborate across teams to deliver scalable solutions from edge devices to the control plane, including data ingest, fault-tolerant interfaces, and

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience with Python and/or Rust, Go or C/C++.
• Hands-on experience building telemetry ingest pipelines or distributed systems for high-volume time-series data.
• Familiarity with async messaging systems: Kafka, RabbitMQ or equivalent.
• Exposure to IT/OT systems (SCADA, EMS, BMS, DCIM) and data flow between them.

Responsibilities

• Build software modules that interact with datacenters, power systems, and the electrical grid.
• Architect and implement data ingest pipelines collecting high-frequency telemetry from power meters, PDUs, UPS, cooling, and compute hardware.
• Design fault-tolerant integration layers between IT and OT systems, including protocol translation and data model mapping.
• Ensure safety, reliability, and correctness when interacting with real energy assets and critical facilities.
• Collaborate across teams to deliver end-to-end solutions from edge device to control plane.

Skills

Python

Rust

Go

C/C++

Telemetry pipelines

Kafka

SCADA/EMS/BMS

Tools

Kubernetes

Container deployments

HPC scheduling

Job description

Emerald AI is building an edge-to-cloud platform that optimizes power usage in AI data centers. We’re hiring an engineer to design real-time telemetry pipelines and integrate with datacenter power and compute systems, turning raw data into safe, reliable control software.

You will own end-to-end projects, shape system architecture, and collaborate across teams to deliver scalable solutions from edge devices to the control plane, including data ingest, fault-tolerant interfaces, and