Staff Engineer, Real-Time Telemetry for AI Data Centers

Emerald AI, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Comprehensive benefits

Flexible WFH (1 day/week)

Job summary

Emerald AI, Inc. is building real-time telemetry pipelines to connect datacenters with power and compute systems.

The role involves implementing control and optimization logic that adapts workloads to grid and infrastructure conditions, bridging IT and OT environments to produce safe, reliable, production-grade software. As an early engineering hire, you will shape system architecture, own projects end-to-end, and collaborate across teams to translate real-world constraints into scalable

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Build software modules that interact with datacenters, on-site industrial power systems and the electrical grid.
• Architect and implement data ingest pipelines that collect, normalize, and persist high-frequency telemetry from power meters, PDUs, UPS systems, cooling infrastructure, and compute hardware.
• Design fault-tolerant integration layers between IT systems (cloud APIs, databases, orchestration platforms) and OT systems.
• Ensure high safety, reliability, and correctness when interacting with real-world 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

Distributed systems

Kafka

RabbitMQ

IT/OT systems

Tools

Kubernetes

InfluxDB

Prometheus

OPC-UA

Modbus

Job description

Emerald AI, Inc. is building real-time telemetry pipelines to connect datacenters with power and compute systems.

The role involves implementing control and optimization logic that adapts workloads to grid and infrastructure conditions, bridging IT and OT environments to produce safe, reliable, production-grade software. As an early engineering hire, you will shape system architecture, own projects end-to-end, and collaborate across teams to translate real-world constraints into scalable