Powerline

Powerline

Lead AI Engineer

Palo Alto

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 287 days ago
PythonMachine LearningData EngineeringLLMsRAGAgentic AIAI OrchestrationForecastingCommunicationRenewable Energy

About the role

  • You will play a foundational role in defining how AI systems understand and interact with energy assets and electricity markets.
  • run continuous tasks and be proactive, without human intervention; and
  • iterate, evaluate, and inference with Powerline data and infrastructure

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
  • Build stateful and long-running agents
  • 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
  • Join Powerline and help build the future of autonomous energy systems.
  • answer complex questions, explain algorithm results, and act as a decision-support tool;

Requirements

  • Strong Python skills and experience integrating with APIs and external systems
  • Experience designing multi-step or stateful systems (e.g., pipelines, workflows, or agents)
  • Experience with Agent evaluation from direct user feedback
  • Experience with Agent orchestration frameworks (e.g., Pydantic AI, LangChain, or similar)
  • Ability to operate across engineering, product, and applied AI
  • 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

Skills

  • Define and implement evaluation frameworks

Benefits

  • 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.
  • We work with leading developers, traders, and operators across global electricity markets, solving high-impact problems that accelerate the transition to a more flexible, decarbonized grid.

This listing is sourced directly from Powerline's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.