Forward Deployed Engineer

About the Company

Pravah is an AI lab building foundational intelligence for the electric grid. We work directly with state-owned electricity utilities (DISCOMs) to transform their decades of fragmented operational data into deployable, decision-grade intelligence.

Responsibilities

• Travel to DISCOM sites across India to embed with engineering, planning, and operations teams
• Acquire, clean, and structure large-scale operational datasets including SCADA, smart-meter telemetry, and GIS networks
• Partner with ML and engineering teams to tune and deploy models for demand and renewable forecasting
• Architect and ship cloud-native data pipelines on GCP
• Work alongside utility leadership on procurement, compliance, and rollout
• Identify product gaps from the field to inform the core engineering team

Requirements

• Degree in engineering, computer science, or a quantitative discipline
• Strong programming fundamentals in Python
• Proficiency with SQL, pandas, and at least one ML framework (scikit-learn, XGBoost, PyTorch)
• Experience working with large, messy real-world datasets
• Comfort with cloud infrastructure (GCP or AWS) and modern data tooling
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Willingness to travel within India to DISCOM offices, often at short notice
• High bias toward ownership and problem-solving

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior exposure to the power, energy, or infrastructure sector
• Experience with geospatial data (QGIS, GeoPandas, shapefiles, GDB)
• Experience deploying or building end-to-end software products at scale