--- title: 'Senior Software Engineer - United States at Powerline' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-software-engineer-united-states-powerline-palo-alto-nd4hff5j35t6' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-13' --- # Senior Software Engineer - United States at Powerline - **Company:** Powerline - **Location:** Palo Alto, CA - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-07-17 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/powerline/2ad3ff9f-6f0f-4eab-bcfb-c4b0c3a24f86 ## Job description Join Powerline and help revolutionize the future of the electricity grid! We are a disruptive, VC-backed climate tech company based in Silicon Valley with offices in Australia and Europe. Our cutting-edge technology leverages machine learning and artificial intelligence to optimize renewable energy and battery storage projects on the electricity grid. Our products help renewable project owners achieve strong economics and operational excellence, paving the way for a decarbonized and profitable future grid. We work on exciting projects with leaders in the world’s most lucrative and complex electricity markets. About the role: As a Senior Software Engineer at Powerline, you will build the systems that power renewable and battery storage optimization: real-time market data pipelines, optimization and machine learning model integration, the dashboards that visualize asset performance, and the infrastructure behind our AI agents. The role centers on backend systems, but the boundaries are flexible: depending on your strengths and interests, your focus may lean toward distributed backend services, front-end interfaces, or AI-powered tooling. You will collaborate with a world-class team of engineers, data scientists, and energy market experts to build and evolve our core platform. This is an incredible opportunity to become an early and foundational team member at a climate tech company entering a major growth phase, solving one of the most important challenges in the global energy transition. Key Responsibilities: - Design, build, and deploy software systems that optimize renewable and battery storage operations. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate machine learning and optimization models. - Build the tools, data access layers, and infrastructure that power Powerline's AI agents to reason over energy market data and asset operations. - Contribute to intuitive, user-friendly interfaces that let internal and external users monitor asset performance in real time. - Own the full software development lifecycle from architecture and design to implementation and maintenance. - Ensure production systems are scalable, reliable, and high-performing. - Diagnose bottlenecks, resolve real-time issues, and continuously improve system performance and monitoring/alerting. - Stay current on trends in software engineering, renewable energy, and grid technology to drive innovation. Requirements: - 5+ years of software engineering experience, focusing on large-scale, real-time systems. - Strong proficiency in Python, with excellent coding, testing, and debugging skills. - Experience building and maintaining APIs, distributed systems, and data pipelines. - Solid understanding of SQL and NoSQL database design and deployment. - Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with diverse teams, including engineers, data scientists, and energy market experts in a distributed working environment. Strong Plus (any of the following): - Experience in energy markets, renewable energy technologies, or energy storage systems. - Familiarity with machine learning and optimization models. - Experience with LLM-powered or agentic applications (tool-using agents, RAG, agent evaluation). - Knowledge of data visualization and dashboard tools. - Front-end development experience, particularly with frameworks like React, Angular, or Svelte. ## 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. 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