Mainspring Energy

Principal Software Architect - AI & Security

Menlo Park, CA · Principal

Sponsorship not specified$228k-$280kDetected 92 days ago

Distributed SystemsAWSGCPMachine LearningLLMsAgentic AICybersecurityComplianceProduct ManagementSystems EngineeringLeadershipCommunicationCollaboration

About the role

The company began commercial shipments of its Mainspring Linear Generators in 2020 and today has hundreds of megawatts in advanced development and field operations for leading Fortune 500 companies, data centers, and utilities.
What You Bring - AI Expertise: GCP/Vertex AI ecosystem, Generative AI, LLMs, and Agentic workflows. - Cloud Tech Stack: Extensive back-end, distributed systems and production software development experience.
What Principal Level Means at Mainspring At principal level, you are the architect of the strategy, not just the executor.

Responsibilities

AI-Enabled Digital Twin Validation: Design validation pipelines that leverage agentic Digital Twin simulations to stress-test software stack in a lab environment (utilizing Hardware-in-the-Loop/HWIL), ensuring system reliability and safety under diverse, high-volatility grid-edge conditions prior to deployment.
Architectural Leadership & Domain Expertise: Drive the integration of Generative AI across the product development life cycle stages, applying extensive experience in distributed systems, data and IoT architecture
Innovation & Change Leadership: Champion innovation, collaborate across cross-functional organizations, secure leadership buy-in for strategic initiatives, and serve as a catalyst for organizational change.
Architectural Leadership & Domain Expertise: Drive the integration of Generative AI across the product development life cycle stages, applying extensive experience in distributed systems, data and IoT architecture; strong preference for candidates with a demonstrated track record in industrial automation, energy-grid management, or power-generation & distributions industries.
Design validation pipelines that leverage agentic Digital Twin simulations to stress-test software stack in a lab environment (utilizing Hardware-in-the-Loop/HWIL), ensuring system reliability and safety under diverse, high-volatility grid-edge conditions prior to deployment.
Drive the integration of Generative AI across the product development life cycle stages, applying extensive experience in distributed systems, data and IoT architecture; strong preference for candidates with a demonstrated track record in industrial automation, energy-grid management, or power-generation & distributions industries.

Requirements

AI Expertise: GCP/Vertex AI ecosystem, Generative AI, LLMs, and Agentic workflows.
Cloud Tech Stack: Extensive back-end, distributed systems and production software development experience.
IoT & Systems Engineering: Demonstrated track record in hardware-software integration with experience in IoT, industrial automation, energy-grid management, or power-generation/distribution industries.
Experience managing cloud-to-device architectures with edge constraints, Hardware-in-the-Loop (HWIL) simulation, and secure Over-the-Air (OTA) update management.
Leadership: Ability to make reasoned technical trade-offs between shorter-term stakeholder requirements and longer-term product roadmap.
Communication: Ability to communicate technology choices, technical architecture, and trade-offs to diverse audiences, including executive leadership, business stakeholders, and implementation teams.
At principal level, you are the architect of the strategy, not just the executor.
You are expected to define the technical roadmap that transforms our engineering culture, acting as a multiplier who elevates the entire organization's capability through AI.
Cloud Tech Stack: Extensive back-end, distributed systems and production software development experience. Deep experience with managed cloud services (GCS/AWS) for scalable, reliable, and available systems.
IoT & Systems Engineering: Demonstrated track record in hardware-software integration with experience in IoT, industrial automation, energy-grid management, or power-generation/distribution industries. Experience managing cloud-to-device architectures with edge constraints, Hardware-in-the-Loop (HWIL) simulation, and secure Over-the-Air (OTA) update management.
Compliance & Security: Experience building software that meets strong cybersecurity requirements (e.g., NERC CIP, ISO27001, SOC2).
Strong focus on the software "ilities": Reliability, Maintainability, Scalability, Usability, Testability, Monitorability, Deployability, and Extensibility.
Leadership: Ability to make reasoned technical trade-offs between shorter-term stakeholder requirements and longer-term product roadmap. Extensive experience as a team lead, mentor and architect on multi-year product deliverables.
What Principal Level Means at Mainspring
At principal level, you are the architect of the strategy, not just the executor. You are expected to define the technical roadmap that transforms our engineering culture, acting as a multiplier who elevates the entire organization's capability through AI.
Does your experience not meet all of our posted requirements? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to positions unless they meet every listed requirement. At Mainspring, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, flexible, and collaborative environment, so if you want to help us transition the world to clean and affordable electricity, and don't meet all posted requirements for a particular role, we'd still love to hear from you. Mainspring can sometimes be flexible enough to shift responsibilities for the right person, or otherwise identify open or upcoming roles that may better fit your professional background. In more traditional words, Mainspring Energy, Inc is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. This compensation and benefits information is based on Mainspring Energy's estimate as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future. We generally do not negotiate on salary once we have made an offer. The level of pay within the range will depend on a variety of job-related factors that may include location, relevant prior experience and/or education, or particular skills and expertise. New hires joining the company tend to be paid within the starting base pay range noted above, with opportunities to increase pay over time based on development of additional skills, competencies, and company-specific knowledge.

Skills

Extensive back-end, distributed systems and production software development experience.
Deep experience with managed cloud services (GCS/AWS) for scalable, reliable, and available systems.
Guide technology decisions, enabling scalability, reliability, and availability guarantees.

Compensation

This compensation and benefits information is based on Mainspring Energy's estimate as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future.
We generally do not negotiate on salary once we have made an offer.
The level of pay within the range will depend on a variety of job-related factors that may include location, relevant prior experience and/or education, or particular skills and expertise.
New hires joining the company tend to be paid within the starting base pay range noted above, with opportunities to increase pay over time based on development of additional skills, competencies, and company-specific knowledge.

Benefits

Mainspring can sometimes be flexible enough to

Equal opportunity

In more traditional words, Mainspring Energy, Inc is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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