Staff Software Engineer, Applied AI

GridUnity; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first culture

Health, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with 4% match

Flexible PTO

Career development opportunities

Job summary

GridUnity is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our Platform team in the United States. You will turn customer workflow visions into reliable capabilities and partner with Product, Design, and engineering to deliver measurable outcomes.

You will own technical approaches for high-value workflows, decompose opportunities, and guide cross-team implementation while maintaining production readiness and observability in a cloud-native stack.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering customer-facing software and leading multi-team initiatives.
• Hands-on production AI applications that retrieve info, invoke tools, or coordinate steps.
• Ability to partner with experts and avoid overreliance on AI judgment.
• Strong API design, testing, and observability skills.
• Experience linking AI capabilities to real app state and authorized actions.
• Ability to translate ambiguous needs into bounded, testable solutions.
• Clear communication to raise effectiveness of other engineers.

Responsibilities

• Translate customer needs into executable workflows across full lifecycle.
• Build and ship capabilities including AI-assisted experiences and workflow orchestration.
• Ensure end-to-end integration from user input to outcomes.
• Extend foundations by leveraging runtime, tools, and services for reliable orchestration.
• Lead technical execution and decompose opportunities for teams.
• Evaluate quality with realistic scenarios and failure recovery plans.
• Measure customer outcomes with product collaboration on baselines.

Skills

Customer-facing software

Production AI apps

API design

Observability

Cross-team leadership

Customer collaboration

TypeScript

Node.js

React

AWS

PostgreSQL

Tools

TypeScript

Node.js

React

AWS

PostgreSQL

Job description

WHO WE ARE

GridUnity is the industry leader in interconnection life cycle management, delivering cutting-edge software solutions that eliminate bottlenecks in the interconnection process and accelerate the transition to a more affordable, sustainable, and resilient energy future.

Our Mission

We unite all grid interconnection stakeholders on a single platform that converts centralized data into actionable intelligence and accelerates the transition to a reliable, sustainable, and cost-efficient electric grid.

GridUnity is a trusted partner to leading utilities, grid operators, and policymakers. Our technology solutions tackle the interconnection queue backlog by significantly reducing processing times. Whether cutting transmission interconnection timelines from years to months or enabling distribution applications to be processed within a day, we help accelerate energy projects at every scale.

Our Vision Energizing the planet with a faster, smarter, and more sustainable grid.

GridUnity is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our Platform team, reporting to the Director of Engineering, Applied AI. You will turn our customer workflow vision into reliable capabilities .

You will be the dedicated technical leader partnering closely with Product, Design, engineering, and domain experts to discover high-value opportunities, build workflow capabilities, and help ensure we deliver measurable customer outcomes. You will own the technical approach for selected high-value workflows, collaborating with Product on prioritization, domain experts on engineering acceptance, and platform and application teams on implementation.

Responsibilities

• Translate customer needs into executable workflows. Map triggers, desired outcomes, participants, evidence, decisions, exceptions, and handoffs across full workflows and their constituent tasks.
• Build and ship capabilities. Implement AI-assisted experiences, typed tools, service integrations, and workflow orchestration within the existing application.
• Connect the experience end-to-end. Ensure assistance leads to completed work—not disconnected chat answers, reports, or recommendations.
• Extend reusable foundations. Build on our product's existing runtime, tools, personas, skills, and application services to improve reliable orchestration, resumability, grounded retrieval, and human approvals.
• Lead technical execution. Decompose opportunities into deliverable increments, resolve cross-team dependencies, and guide implementation without becoming the sole implementer.
• Evaluate real-world quality. Create representative scenarios and evaluations covering correctness, incomplete information, exceptions, permissions, and failure recovery.
• Measure customer outcomes. Partner with Product to establish baselines and assess improvements in effort, correction cycles, throughput, and decision quality.
• Preserve customer trust. Make uncertainty, evidence coverage, source versions, permitted actions, and approval boundaries explicit.
• Engineer for production. Address latency, model and tool costs, observability, safe rollout, failure recovery, prompt injection, and unauthorized tool actions.

Required experience

• Demonstrable experience delivering customer-facing software and leading consequential technical work across teams or services.
• Hands-on experience building production AI applications that retrieve information, invoke tools, or coordinate multi-step work.
• Effective at partnering with qualified experts rather than substituting AI judgment for engineering authority.
• Strong software engineering skills, including APIs, structured contracts, asynchronous execution, testing, and observability.
• Experience connecting AI capabilities to real application state and authorized actions—not only building conversational prototypes.
• Sound judgment about where deterministic logic, AI assistance, and human decisions belong.
• Experience designing evaluations and investigating failures involving incomplete data, ambiguous requirements, or unreliable model outputs.
• The ability to work directly with customers and domain experts, clarify ambiguous needs, and translate them into bounded, testable solutions.
• Clear communication and the ability to raise the effectiveness of other engineers through technical leadership.

Preferred experience

• Electric utility, interconnection, transmission, distribution, DER, storage, or large-load workflows.
• Regulated or evidence-intensive enterprise applications.
• TypeScript, Node.js, React, and cloud-based service architectures.
• Document processing, workflow engines, engineering-tool integration, or enterprise authorization models.
• Deep electrical engineering expertise is valuable but not required.

Our technology

We build cloud-based software using TypeScript, React, Node.js, PostgreSQL, and AWS, alongside modern AI tools.

You do not need experience with every tool we use. We value sound engineering judgment and a track record of delivering reliable software that solves real customer problems.

Your first 90 days

Working with the team you will:

• Learn our product and customers’ needs.
• Identify a practical opportunity for AI to improve a customer workflow.
• Build and test an initial solution, gather feedback, and recommend next steps.
• Help establish approaches the team can reuse.

How success will be measured

Success means helping customers get important work done more easily and reliably—not simply building demos or increasing AI usage.

OUR CULTURE

We are a lean, fast-moving team that values bold thinking, reliability, and continuous learning. We operate with radical transparency, embrace scrappiness, and build solutions that anticipate customer needs. We also believe work should be fun and fulfilling — what we call “funfillment.”

The right candidate is energized by working in a scaling, mission-driven company where they can shape processes, wear multiple hats, and grow alongside the business.

BENEFITS/PERKS

• Competitive compensation packages that recognize your expertise and contributions
• Remote-first culture that provides flexibility and balance
• Professional development opportunities, including training, mentorship, and career pathing
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance starting day one
• Short- and long-term disability and basic life insurance at no cost to you
• 401(k) plan with a 4% match to help secure your future
• Flexible PTO and a supportive work culture that values balance
• Mission-driven work with the opportunity to make a significant impact in the energy sector

ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENT

This position may involve access to data and systems subject to U.S. critical infrastructure protection regulations. Accordingly, this role is restricted to individuals who qualify as “U.S. persons,” defined by federal law as U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents (green card holders), asylees, or refugees.

OUR COMMITMENT TO APPLICANTS

GridUnity is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, arrest and conviction record, or any other characteristic protected under applicable law.

We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where every team member feels valued, supported, and able to bring their authentic self to work.

If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process, please email [e-mail].

For your security, all official communication from GridUnity will only come from email addresses ending in gridunity.com.