Head of Engineering

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering strategy, architecture, and delivery across AI applications, data platforms, integrations, and production systems.
• Serve as the internal subject-matter expert on plant operations, maintenance workflows, outage response, root-cause analysis, reliability, and operator decision support.
• Translate real-world plant problems into product requirements, technical roadmaps, and scalable software solutions.
• Build and mentor a high-performing engineering team across backend, data, AI/ML, platform, and integration functions.
• Partner with product, design, and customers to develop features that integrate with SCADA, historians, CMMS/EAM, OEM documentation, and other operational systems.
• Define standards for security, uptime, traceability, testing, observability, and responsible AI in high-consequence environments.
• Validate model outputs and workflows against operational reality, safety expectations, and compliance requirements.
• Support customer discovery, pilot deployment, implementation planning, and executive communication with operators, utilities, and O&M leaders.

Skills and Tools

• Power generation domain expertise across one or more asset classes: gas, steam, wind, solar, hydro, geothermal, or nuclear.
• Strong engineering leadership in cloud-native software, APIs, distributed systems, data pipelines, and enterprise integrations.
• Experience with Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, SQL, and modern backend frameworks.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP, plus Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and observability tools.
• Familiarity with LLM/AI systems, RAG, vector databases, MLOps/LLMOps, and evaluation/guardrail frameworks.
• Working knowledge of industrial and operational data environments such as OSIsoft PI / AVEVA PI, SCADA, OPC UA, historians, CMMS/EAM, ERP, and APM platforms.
• Strong systems thinking, incident/problem-solving discipline, and ability to communicate with both engineers and plant operators.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience spanning energy operations, industrial technology, software engineering, or technical product development.
• 5+ years leading engineering teams, technical architecture, or platform delivery in a startup, industrial software, or enterprise environment.
• Proven experience in power plant operations, reliability, maintenance engineering, performance engineering, or technical O&M support.
• Demonstrated success shipping production-grade software products used in operational or mission-critical settings.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Advanced degree or experience in power systems, mechanical engineering, industrial automation, AI/ML, or data systems is a plus.