Lead Product Engineer, SynopLink

Come supercharge the distributed energy future for a greener planet with Synop! We are looking for passionate, driven, ownership-minded problem-solvers to help us build products that put electric fleets, batteries, generators, and the sites that run them in a position to succeed.

About Us

Synop is accelerating the transition to commercial electrification by building the foundational infrastructure to manage distributed energy resources (DERs) at scale. Our platform connects electric fleets, chargers, batteries, generators, and grid signals into a unified interface that empowers our customers to control energy intelligently, optimize cost, and support grid reliability.

Our edge product, SynopLink, manages energy assets on-site — even through connectivity outages — and coordinates local devices to comprehensively manage power at customer sites.

SynopLink's fleet is growing fast, and we're looking for the engineer who will lead it through its next order of magnitude: someone with the technical depth to operate a large, distributed fleet of devices managing energy systems around the world, and the product sense to decide what we build so customers onboard quickly, issues get resolved fast, and the platform scales gracefully to hundreds and thousands of units.

About You

• You have:

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including significant time on IoT, edge, or device-fleet products — and experience setting product direction for a platform, not just building against someone else's spec.

• Experience operating a real device fleet in production: provisioning, OTA updates, remote diagnostics, observability, and the failure modes of hardware in the field.

• Experience at small startups and with distributed teams.

• You are:

• An IC lead, operating beyond the classic senior-engineer scope: you own product direction and technical decisions, and you bring the team along with you.

• Product-minded: you talk to customers and CS, find the friction, and decide what to build — then build it.

• AI-forward – proficient in building with AI, meaning building & improving the harness, documentation, systems, and AI agent skills to get large bodies of work built and validated autonomously. Feature development powered by AI and directed/driven/orchestrated by you; scaling yourself and your impact. You can easily make yourself 3x as productive as anyone in 2023.

• A force multiplier: you'd rather build the tool that makes ten deployments easy than heroically finish one.

• Strong in Python and comfortable across the stack (edge services, cloud infra, internal tools); working knowledge of AWS IoT/Greengrass, MQTT, and industrial protocols like Modbus and OCPP.

• Bonus: background in energy systems, EMS/BMS/SCADA, or EV charging; experience commissioning hardware in the field.

What You'll Be Doing

• Own product & technical direction for SynopLink: the roadmap, priorities, and technical decisions behind operating our edge platform successfully at scale.
• Lead the scale-up of the SynopLink fleet from a technical perspective — the architecture, tooling, and operational practices that take us from dozens of devices to hundreds and thousands.
• Make customer onboarding and troubleshooting fast and repeatable — provisioning, site-qualification tooling, and commissioning flows that get customers live quickly.
• Build the software to run and operate a large, robust global fleet of IoT devices managing energy systems — the edge software itself, plus the tooling that keeps it operable at scale: observability, OTA updates, fleet dashboards, and remote diagnostics that let our CS and engineering teams resolve customer issues in minutes.
• Work with other members of the engineering team and directly with our heads of product & engineering, to achieve these goals.

Job type: Full-time

Location: Remote, US

Compensation: $180k–$200k

Travel: Occasional travel to customer sites (1–2x per quarter)