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Our technology solutions tackle the interconnection queue backlog by significantly reducing processing times. Whether cutting transmission interconnection timelines from years to months or enabling distribution applications to be processed within a day, we help accelerate energy projects at every scale.\nOur Vision\nEnergizing the planet with a faster, smarter, and more sustainable grid.\nGridUnity is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our Platform team, reporting to the Director of Engineering, Applied AI. You will turn our customer workflow vision into reliable capabilities .\nYou will be the dedicated technical leader partnering closely with Product, Design, engineering, and domain experts to discover high-value opportunities, build workflow capabilities, and help ensure we deliver measurable customer outcomes. You will own the technical approach for selected high-value workflows, collaborating with Product on prioritization, domain experts on engineering acceptance, and platform and application teams on implementation.\nResponsibilities\nTranslate customer needs into executable workflows. Map triggers, desired outcomes, participants, evidence, decisions, exceptions, and handoffs across full workflows and their constituent tasks.\n\nBuild and ship capabilities. Implement AI-assisted experiences, typed tools, service integrations, and workflow orchestration within the existing application.\n\nConnect the experience end-to-end. Ensure assistance leads to completed work-not disconnected chat answers, reports, or recommendations.\n\nExtend reusable foundations. Build on our product's existing runtime, tools, personas, skills, and application services to improve reliable orchestration, resumability, grounded retrieval, and human approvals.\n\nLead technical execution. Decompose opportunities into deliverable increments, resolve cross-team dependencies, and guide implementation without becoming the sole implementer.\n\nEvaluate real-world quality. Create representative scenarios and evaluations covering correctness, incomplete information, exceptions, permissions, and failure recovery.\n\nMeasure customer outcomes. Partner with Product to establish baselines and assess improvements in effort, correction cycles, throughput, and decision quality.\n\nPreserve customer trust. Make uncertainty, evidence coverage, source versions, permitted actions, and approval boundaries explicit.\n\nEngineer for production. Address latency, model and tool costs, observability, safe rollout, failure recovery, prompt injection, and unauthorized tool actions.\n\nRequired experience\nDemonstrable experience delivering customer-facing software and leading consequential technical work across teams or services.\n\nHands-on experience building production AI applications that retrieve information, invoke tools, or coordinate multi-step work.\n\nEffective at partnering with qualified experts rather than substituting AI judgment for engineering authority.\n\nStrong software engineering skills, including APIs, structured contracts, asynchronous execution, testing, and observability.\n\nExperience connecting AI capabilities to real application state and authorized actions-not only building conversational prototypes.\n\nSound judgment about where deterministic logic, AI assistance, and human decisions belong.\n\nExperience designing evaluations and investigating failures involving incomplete data, ambiguous requirements, or unreliable model outputs.\n\nThe ability to work directly with customers and domain experts, clarify ambiguous needs, and translate them into bounded, testable solutions.\n\nClear communication and the ability to raise the effectiveness of other engineers through technical leadership.\n\nPreferred experience\nElectric utility, interconnection, transmission, distribution, DER, storage, or large-load workflows.\n\nRegulated or evidence-intensive enterprise applications.\n\nTypeScript, Node.js, React, and cloud-based service architectures.\n\nDocument processing, workflow engines, engineering-tool integration, or enterprise authorization models.\n\nDeep electrical engineering expertise is valuable but not required.\n\nOur technology\nWe build cloud-based software using TypeScript, React, Node.js, PostgreSQL, and AWS, alongside modern AI tools.\nYou do not need experience with every tool we use. We value sound engineering judgment and a track record of delivering reliable software that solves real customer problems.\nYour first 90 days\nWorking with the team you will:\nLearn our product and customers’ needs.\n\nIdentify a practical opportunity for AI to improve a customer workflow.\n\nBuild and test an initial solution, gather feedback, and recommend next steps.\n\nHelp establish approaches the team can reuse.\n\nHow success will be measured\nSuccess means helping customers get important work done more easily and reliably-not simply building demos or increasing AI usage.\nOUR CULTURE\nWe are a lean, fast-moving team that values bold thinking, reliability, and continuous learning. We operate with radical transparency, embrace scrappiness, and build solutions that anticipate customer needs. We also believe work should be fun and fulfilling - what we call “funfillment.”\nThe right candidate is energized by working in a scaling, mission-driven company where they can shape processes, wear multiple hats, and grow alongside the business.\nBENEFITS/PERKS\nCompetitive compensation packages that recognize your expertise and contributions\n\nRemote-first culture that provides flexibility and balance\n\nProfessional development opportunities, including training, mentorship, and career pathing\n\nComprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance starting day one\n\nShort- and long-term disability and basic life insurance at no cost to you\n\n401(k) plan with a 4% match to help secure your future\n\nFlexible PTO and a supportive work culture that values balance\n\nMission-driven work with the opportunity to make a significant impact in the energy sector\n\nELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENT\nThis position may involve access to data and systems subject to U.S. critical infrastructure protection regulations. 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