Fleet Software & Controls Engineering Lead
Hybrid · Oak Brook, Illinois, United States
Job Summary
Lead the fleet software and controls-adjacent application layer for POWR:Suite, owning fleet operations software, operator applications, event-driven services, and AI-assisted delivery; scale a distributed energy storage fleet software to optimize dispatch, state-of-charge management, market participation, customer bills, demand charge management, resilience, and operator support. You will shape architecture, guide engineers, and orchestrate AI agents that support software delivery, testing, documentation, monitoring, and operational workflows, while driving reliability, observability, and scalable workflows across a growing BESS fleet.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years in software engineering, systems engineering, full-stack engineering, back-end engineering, or controls-adjacent software
- Experience leading technical work across teams or mentoring engineers
- Strong Python experience in production systems
- Experience building APIs, services, event-driven systems, and operational applications
- Experience with real-time, high-reliability, hardware-adjacent, industrial, or operational software
- Ability to build practical internal tools for operators, field teams, or technical users
- Strong debugging instincts across software, data, infrastructure, and system behavior
- Hands-on experience using AI tools as part of engineering work
- Ability to build, maintain, evaluate, govern, or orchestrate agents that support engineering and operational workflows
- Strong curiosity about physical systems and how software affects real-world and economic outcomes
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