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title: 'Senior Software Engineer at Senpilot'
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# Senior Software Engineer at Senpilot

- **Company:** Senpilot
- **Location:** Toronto, Canada
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-07-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/senpilot/am9icG9zdDrqeMtgo2ur3LD1NanL-lJa

## Job description

Senpilot builds AI agents that help utilities operate smarter, faster, and more reliably, automating everything from engineering workflows to regulatory filings and compliance. Our mission is to create the intelligence layer for the modern grid: AI systems that understand utility data, reason across it, and act autonomously to improve safety, resilience, and efficiency.

We are building production-grade intelligence that sits at the heart of how critical infrastructure is planned, monitored, and regulated, helping utilities unlock the next generation of reliability.

Joining Senpilot means joining a small, high-performance team that combines deep expertise in AI systems, data engineering, and energy infrastructure. We focus on generating value and we run toward the hard problems because that's where the value is. If you want to join a fast-growing team and help build the future of intelligent infrastructure, this is the place to do it.

## The Role

We're looking for a senior engineer to build and own AI-powered product features end to end, from schema and API design through to shipping in production and iterating on real usage. You’ll lean on AI coding tools like Claude and Cursor to move fast across the stack.

This is an AI-native engineering role. We expect AI to be a core part of how you work, a genuine multiplier for how much you can design, build, and ship. We care far more about how you build than which stack you've used. If you write clean, reliable code and can take an ambiguous problem to a shipped, maintained feature, we want to talk to you.

What you will find in our current tech stack: TypeScript, Python, Node.js, GCP, Kubernetes, React, PostgreSQL, Clickhouse and Temporal.

## What you’ll do

- Design, build, and ship fullstack features independently, from technical design through deployment and monitoring
- Raise the bar on code quality. Ship reliable, exceptionally clean code across our entire stack, covering everything from APIs and databases to frontend components.
- Design pragmatic data models and database schemas that hold up as the product grows.
- Use AI coding tools as a core part of your workflow to ship more, faster, without dropping quality.
- Turn complex product challenges into concrete, shippable technical plans.
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, engineers and customers to create and improve our products

## What you’ll bring

- 4+ years of experience building and shipping production software, with a track record of owning features end to end.
- Hands-on experience as an AI-native Engineer and ability to get high-quality, production-ready output
- Experience with relational databases and solid schema design instincts: you can model a domain sensibly and reason about tradeoffs.
- Understanding of modern cloud infrastructure
- Experience with Kubernetes will be a great plus.
- Fluency in at least one modern language: TypeScript, Python, Go, or similar.
- True fullstack ownership: comfortable across backend, data, and frontend, since you'll own it all.
- Clear communication and a collaborative, low-ego approach to code review and design.

Work Location We appreciate the flexibility of hybrid work, and we also value the energy that comes from being in the same room. Our team gathers at our office in downtown Toronto up to three times a month. If you're able to join us in person on those days, we'd love to hear from you.

What is in for you

- Competitive Compensation: The estimated base salary range for this role in Canada is $160,000 CAD - $210,000 CAD with most new hires joining near the midpoint. Actual salaries may vary within the range, or above or below it, based on factors such as experience, skills, location, and business needs.
- Equity
- Comprehensive Health Benefits from day one, for you and your dependents
- Time Off: 20 vacation days + 5 flex days around EOY holidays

AI at Senpilot AI is embedded in how we work, and we encourage our team to lean on it to learn new skills, sharpen their craft, and put their energy toward the work that genuinely moves the needle. That extends to how we hire. We bring AI into our recruitment process not to take the humanity out of it, but to keep things organized and smooth so the experience feels more personal, not less. It gives our team room to focus on the parts that count: genuine conversations and well thought decisions. Above all, every decision is made by real people, drawing on genuine understanding, and rooted in our values and culture.

Senpilot is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive and diverse workforce. Accommodations are available upon request during the recruitment process.

## About Senpilot

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Senpilot builds an AI-native operating system for utilities, using AI agents to automate engineering, regulatory, and customer service workflows.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage; raised $4M total)
- **Headquarters**: Brooklyn, New York, United States (with a secondary office in Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
- **Founded**: Not publicly disclosed; earliest known funding round was a pre-seed in June 2024
- **Founders**: Mike Hejmej (CEO) and Alex Peats-Bond (Co-Founder, CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Artificial intelligence for utility infrastructure (electric, water, gas)
- **Target customers**: B2B – utilities, regulatory commissions, and related consultants
- **Mission**: “Run a utility with AI” – centralize sensor data, enable predictive analytics, smart asset management, and autonomously handle regulatory filings and customer service.

## Products & Services
- **Senpilot AI Platform**: A single platform that integrates with existing utility systems and deploys AI agents for:
  - **Engineering Agent**: Analyzes assets and builds capital plans.
  - **Regulatory Agent**: Drafts evidence-backed regulatory filings.
  - **Customer Service Agent**: Handles customer calls autonomously.
- **Security & Compliance**: SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, NERC CIP alignment, with on-premises/hybrid deployment options.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $4M (Seed round led by Coreline Ventures in September 2025; pre-seed led by Afore Capital in June 2024)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Afore Capital, Coreline Ventures; Special Access partnership with Electricity (announced May 2026)
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 320% YoY (from ~3 to 19 employees), with a monthly growth rate of 5%. LinkedIn followers increased 74.7% year-over-year. Actively hiring for senior engineering and regulatory roles.

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-native architecture**: Built from the ground up for AI, using agents that directly integrate with utility workflows.
- **Enterprise-grade security**: Achieved SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001, aligned with NERC CIP – critical for regulated utility customers.
- **No-lock-in design**: Extensible platform that works with existing utility systems, reducing adoption friction.
- **Deep domain expertise**: Team includes regulatory specialists and former utility professionals.

## Strategic Focus
- Build a comprehensive AI operating system covering engineering, regulatory, and customer service for utilities.
- Scale the platform to more utilities and expand into new geographies (already present in US and Canada).
- Continue hiring top engineering and regulatory talent to accelerate product development.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Fast-moving, high-ownership environment focused on tackling hard infrastructure problems. Described as “fun and hardworking” with a low-ego, collaborative approach.
- **AI-native engineering**: Engineers are expected to use AI coding tools (Claude, Cursor) as a core part of their workflow. The company is building an “AI-native” product and workflow.
- **Work policy**: Hybrid – team gathers in downtown Toronto up to three times per month; Brooklyn office also available. Remote-friendly within Canada/US.
- **Compensation**: Competitive base salaries (e.g., Senior/Staff Software Engineer: $150k–$225k CAD; Regulatory AI Specialist: $100k–$160k USD), plus equity and comprehensive health benefits from day one.
- **Time off**: 20 vacation days + 5 flex days around year-end holidays.
- **Growth trajectory**: Early-stage (19 employees) with strong funding and high growth – opportunity for significant impact and career acceleration.

## Sources
1. [careers.senpilot.com](https://careers.senpilot.com/) – Company overview and open positions
2. [linkedin.com/company/senpilot](https://linkedin.com/company/senpilot) – Employee count, growth, funding, and recent announcements
3. [fundraisingfox.com/companies/senpilot](https://fundraisingfox.com/companies/senpilot) – Investor details and product description
4. [careers.senpilot.com/jobs/d764a350-de90-482a-b00f-499d10e61ae4](https://careers.senpilot.com/jobs/d764a350-de90-482a-b00f-499d10e61ae4) – Senior/Staff Software Engineer job posting (salary, culture, tech stack)
5. [careers.senpilot.com/jobs/3584f60f-f4cb-4453-a8f9-191f8fe58516](https://careers.senpilot.com/jobs/3584f60f-f4cb-4453-a8f9-191f8fe58516) – Regulatory AI Specialist job posting (salary, responsibilities)

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