Lead AI Engineer

About the Company

Powerline is a fast-growing, VC-backed climate tech company transforming how renewable energy and battery storage assets operate on the electricity grid. Our technology combines machine learning, optimization, and market intelligence to help asset owners monitor, analyze, and maximize operational performance in the world’s most complex energy markets.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build agentic AI systems that plan, reason, and act across workflows
• Design tool-using agents that integrate with Powerline systems
• Develop multi-step decision systems and build stateful, long-running agents
• Define and implement evaluation frameworks
• Improve reliability, observability, and safety of LLM-based systems in production
• Collaborate with energy market specialists to translate real-world workflows into agent behavior and logic
• Help lead technical direction for agent architecture and system design

Requirements

• Experience building production AI or software systems, including LLM-powered or agentic applications
• Strong Python skills and experience integrating with APIs and external systems
• Experience designing multi-step or stateful systems such as pipelines, workflows, or agents
• Experience building memory and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) frameworks
• Experience with Agent evaluation from direct user feedback
• Experience with Agent orchestration frameworks like Pydantic AI, LangChain, or similar
• Ability to operate across engineering, product, and applied AI
• Strong ownership mindset and comfort building 0→1 systems in fast-paced environments
• Excellent communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building systems with partial or full autonomy in real-world environments
• Experience working with real-time or streaming data pipelines
• Experience in electricity markets, trading, or energy systems
• Experience with time-series modeling or forecasting
• Experience with optimization systems