Energy Engineer

About the role

We build the energy intelligence layer for AI data centers. Our platform optimizes how a facility runs its power, cooling, and storage, then measures and settles every dollar saved in a daily ledger. You’ll own what happens after the software goes live. You’re the energy expert a customer’s operators, facility engineers, and finance team trust: the person who turns our recommendations into approved actions, and approved actions into verified savings the customer signs off on. This is an engineering role with a customer in front of it, not an account-management job. Senior individual contributor. Contract-to-hire: you start on a W-2 hourly engagement, with a path to convert to a full-time, permanent role. Hybrid out of Alpharetta, GA; Remote anywhere in the US considered for a strong candidate. Travel to customer sites up to 30%.

What you'll do

• Drive adoption at each customer site. Get operators to approve optimization plans, work through the reasons plans get rejected, and raise the share of recommendations that get acted on.
• Own measurement and verification with the customer. Set the baseline, review the settlement ledger with their finance team, defend the numbers, and make sure realized savings match projections — or explain exactly why they don’t.
• Be the energy authority in the room. Read a tariff, explain a demand charge, walk through a chiller-staging sequence with a plant engineer, and translate it into what changes on the customer’s bill and in their operations.
• Lead onboarding and commissioning on the customer side: tariff structures, point schedules for facility KPIs, alarm thresholds, and procedure libraries. You own the acceptance criteria that mark a site as live.
• Spot where the platform can do more for a customer — optimization add-ons, tenant energy services, or additional sites — and make the case to expand.
• Bring the customer’s perspective into product. You’ll sit in sprint reviews and tell the team which recommendations operators trust, which they don’t, and why.
• Serve as the customer’s named contact for anything energy-related, coordinating the deployment, support, and optimization teams behind you.
• Measured on: plan approval rate, realized vs. expected savings, dollars settled per site, time from install to acceptance, and expansion to new sites and add-ons.

What we're looking for

• 7+ years in energy engineering, energy management, or energy services — in data centers, critical facilities, or industrial or commercial plants
• 3+ years working directly with clients, building owners, or facility operators. ESCO, consulting, and owner’s-rep work all count.
• Hands-on knowledge of how facilities use energy: utility tariffs and demand charges, chiller plants and cooling, UPS and power distribution, battery storage and demand response. You can look at a load profile and see where the money is.
• Measurement and verification experience: baselines, normalization, savings calculations, and defending a number to a finance team
• Experience with a BMS, SCADA, or energy management system as a user or implementer. You know what a point list is and why alarm thresholds matter.
• The judgment to sit between an operator who doesn’t trust an automated recommendation and the engineers who built it, and get both to the right answer
• Clear writing, and comfort presenting to a CIO, a plant supervisor, and a finance controller in the same week

Nice to have

• CEM (Certified Energy Manager) or CMVP (Certified Measurement & Verification Professional) certification
• Other credentials such as CEA, PE (Electrical or Mechanical), CDCP/CDCE, Uptime Institute ATD/AOS, CxA, or BEMP
• Time inside a data center during a commissioning or an incident
• ESCO or performance-contracting experience where results were measured in verified savings
• Familiarity with demand response and grid-services programs
• Comfort with software products and a SaaS adoption motion — without being a career SaaS CSM