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title: 'Lead AI Engineer at Powerline'
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# Lead AI Engineer at Powerline

- **Company:** Powerline
- **Location:** Palo Alto, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2025-10-07
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/powerline/5c22ada4-da96-42c3-bd2a-ae013d128c7c

## Job description

Join Powerline and help build the future of autonomous energy systems. Powerline is a fast-growing, VC-backed climate tech company transforming how renewable energy and battery storage assets operate on the electricity grid. Our technology combines machine learning, optimization, and market intelligence to help asset owners monitor, analyze, and maximize operational performance in the world’s most complex energy markets. We work with leading developers, traders, and operators across global electricity markets, solving high-impact problems that accelerate the transition to a more flexible, decarbonized grid.

## About the Role

We are looking for a Lead AI Engineer to design and build an agentic system that can reason over complex data, orchestrate modeling workflows, and autonomously generate insights and decisions related to energy asset operations. This role focuses on building production-grade AI systems used by experts in energy markets. You will develop systems that combine LLMs, time-series data, and optimization engines into intelligent agents that operate across both: Interactive workflows and Autonomous workflows. You will play a foundational role in defining how AI systems understand and interact with energy assets and electricity markets.

## What You’ll Build

You will design and deploy Powerline’s AI Agents to:

- answer complex questions, explain algorithm results, and act as a decision-support tool;
- run continuous tasks and be proactive, without human intervention; and
- iterate, evaluate, and inference with Powerline data and infrastructure

These systems will operate in high-stakes environments where correctness and reliability directly impact economic decisions.

Core Responsibilities

- Architect and build agentic AI systems that plan, reason, and act across workflows
- Design tool-using agents that integrate with Powerline systems
- Develop multi-step decision systems
- Build stateful and long-running agents
- Define and implement evaluation frameworks
- Improve reliability, observability, and safety of LLM-based systems in production
- Collaborate with energy market specialists to translate real-world workflows into agent behavior and logic
- Help lead technical direction for agent architecture and system design

## Requirements

- Experience building production AI or software systems, including work with LLM-powered or agentic applications
- Strong Python skills and experience integrating with APIs and external systems
- Experience designing multi-step or stateful systems (e.g., pipelines, workflows, or agents)
- Experience building memory and Retrieval Augmental Generation (RAG) frameworks
- Experience with Agent evaluation from direct user feedback
- Experience with Agent orchestration frameworks (e.g., Pydantic AI, LangChain, or similar)
- Ability to operate across engineering, product, and applied AI
- Strong ownership mindset and comfort building 0→1 systems in fast-paced environments
- Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across technical and domain teams

Strong Plus

- Experience building systems with partial or full autonomy in real-world environments
- Experience working with real-time or streaming data pipelines
- Experience in electricity markets, trading, or energy systems
- Experience with time-series modeling or forecasting
- Experience with optimization systems

## About Powerline

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Powerline provides an AI-driven digital twin platform that delivers continuous performance benchmarking, market simulation, and actionable intelligence for battery energy storage portfolios.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage; $7M raised)
- **Headquarters**: Palo Alto, California, USA (San Francisco Bay Area)
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Matineh Eybpoosh (CEO) and Julian Lamy (CTO)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Services for Renewable Energy / Energy Storage Software
- Target customers: B2B – project developers, utilities, and large-scale battery asset owners
- Mission: To maximize revenue, accurately benchmark performance, and scale battery operations with confidence through AI-powered intelligence.

## Products & Services
- **Battery Co‑Pilot™**: An independent, EMS-agnostic AI digital twin that integrates market signals, bottom‑up simulations, and operational data. Provides fleet‑wide benchmarking, realistic revenue projections, portfolio‑aware design, and actionable recommendations – all with zero operational risk. Supports cross‑valuation of different battery technologies and bid optimization.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $7M (Seed round closed Feb 2026; Pre‑Seed in 2021)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: MaC Venture Capital (lead, Seed), LG Technology Ventures, J‑Impact Fund, Voyager Ventures (pre‑seed)
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount of 17 with +15.4% YoY growth; operating in 8 countries (including Australia, UK, US, Bosnia, Nigeria); early commercial traction in Australia and UK; actively expanding into US and European markets.

## Competitive Advantages
- **EMS‑agnostic architecture**: Works alongside any Energy Management System, enabling unbiased performance comparisons across vendors.
- **Market dynamics modeling**: Unique bottom‑up simulations that factor in price impacts, bid optimization, and real‑world constraints – unlike static benchmark tools.
- **Founding team expertise**: Co‑founders previously built Tesla’s Autobidder software and led the operations of Tesla’s global grid battery fleet, giving them deep domain knowledge.
- **Proven track record**: Previously co‑founded Watt‑Learn, a grid battery optimization startup that was successfully acquired.

## Strategic Focus
- **Global expansion**: Growing presence in Australia, UK, US, and Europe.
- **Product development**: Scaling the Battery Co‑Pilot™ platform to handle larger, more complex portfolios.
- **Talent acquisition**: Actively hiring Senior Optimization Software Engineers, AI/ML Engineers, and a Senior Energy Analyst in Australia to support growth.

## Why Work Here
- **Impactful mission**: Work on software that directly accelerates renewable energy adoption and grid decarbonization.
- **World‑class team**: Small, tight‑knit group (17 people) with deep expertise in energy storage, AI, and power markets – many with Tesla or energy startup backgrounds.
- **Remote‑friendly**: Team spans 8 countries; flexible work environment with headquarters in Palo Alto.
- **Cutting‑edge work**: Tackle challenges in AI/ML, optimization, time‑series forecasting, and energy market modeling.
- **Growth opportunity**: Early‑stage company with recent funding – chance to shape product and culture while the team expands.

## Sources
1. [drivepowerline.com](https://drivepowerline.com/)
2. [drivepowerline.com/careers](https://drivepowerline.com/careers)
3. [drivepowerline.com/team](https://drivepowerline.com/team)
4. [drivepowerline.com/insights/seed-raise](https://drivepowerline.com/insights/seed-raise)
5. [linkedin.com/company/drivepowerline](https://www.linkedin.com/company/drivepowerline)
6. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/powerline](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/powerline)

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