Neara
Solution Engineer - Structural Design
USA - Remote
Sponsorship not specified$20k-$30kDetected 37 days ago
Machine LearningSalesAutoCADPublic Speaking
About the role
- Imagine having the power to stress-test an entire power grid against a hurricane or thunderstorm before the clouds even gather.
- Our team is a collection of brilliant minds who are fanatical about making a tangible difference in the real world, utilising AI and machine learning to accelerate everything from data classification to complex scenario analysis.
- Over time, you will become an expert user of Neara, including AutoDesign, and represent that capability externally.
Responsibilities
- Partner with Sales to craft and deliver technical presentations, demo scripts, and customer-facing materials that translate Neara's capabilities into the language and workflows utility practitioners actually use.
- Partner with Marketing to shape messaging, positioning, and content (one-pagers, technical briefs, case studies, webinars) that lands with designers, estimators, standards engineers, and their leaders.
- Partner with Product to channel the voice of the utility designer into the roadmap - surfacing real workflow friction, validating proposed solutions, and helping prioritize against how the work actually gets done in the field.
- Build the muscle and the materials - playbooks, technical FAQs, objection handling, competitive teardowns - that will allow the Design function to scale as the team grows.
- 3-5 years of hands-on experience as a Designer, Estimator, or equivalent role producing distribution and/or transmission designs at a utility, EPC, or utility engineering services firm - work that involved pole loading and sag-tension analysis, clearance and NESC compliance, bill-of-materials development, and work order management.
- 3-5 years working at or directly embedded with an electric utility, with a clear understanding of how design work moves through standards, construction, operations, and asset management functions.
- Neara is hiring a Solutions Engineer to help define and grow the Design function within our go-to-market organization.
- You will sit on the Sales team but operate as a connective tissue across Product, Marketing, and Sales - guiding product direction with the voice of the designer, shaping messaging that resonates with utility practitioners, building sales presentations that hold up under technical scrutiny, and serving as the credible technical SME in customer conversations.
Requirements
- Proficiency in at least one industry design tool - PLS-CADD, SpidaCalc, OCalc, Pole Foreman, or AutoCAD - and a working understanding of the others.
- You are excited to deepen this skill, not intimidated by it.
- You can explain a transverse load calculation to an executive and a business case to a designer, and adjust on the fly.
- PE licensure is not required.
- You are energized by ambiguity, eager to learn new software deeply, and motivated by the chance to help shape a function rather than execute someone else's playbook.
- Develop deep proficiency with the Neara software platform - including AutoDesign - to the point where you can demonstrate, teach, and apply it credibly in front of utility design, engineering, and operations audiences.
Nice to have
- Experience with digital twin platforms, Neara, or similar physics-based modeling tools is a plus but not required.
Compensation
- Competitive salary + ESOP.
Company info
- That is the reality we are creating at Neara.
- By simulating extreme weather and structural stress at a network-wide scale, we empower the world's largest utilities to pinpoint risks, optimise investments and build a more resilient global energy future.
- We have built a special culture where innovation thrives because everyone owns the mission and we need smart, creative people to help us scale this impact to every corner of the globe.
- This is a high-impact individual contributor role for someone who has lived the daily reality of utility design work - pole loading, sag-tension, clearance analysis, work order management - and is ready to bring that hard-won expertise to bear on a platform that is fundamentally changing how utilities design, maintain, and harden their networks.
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