Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

🕒 August 29

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👷🏻‍♀️ Engineer

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GRIDSIGHT

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2020

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

⚡ Energy

Consulting • Logistics • Energy

GRIDSIGHT is a company that provides advanced analytics and data solutions for optimizing energy networks, particularly focusing on distributed energy resources (DER) and low-voltage network performance. The company offers features such as real-time analytics, automated reports, AI data predictions, and dynamic operating envelopes to help industry leaders improve grid visibility and performance. Their tools are designed to enhance the accuracy of network data, manage voltage and thermal constraints, and maximize DER hosting capacity. GRIDSIGHT's solutions are tailored to empower engineering, marketing, and design teams to efficiently manage energy network operations through data-driven insights. Their technology facilitates the proactive identification of network issues and the verification of installed capacity, ensuring compliance and operational excellence.

📋 Description

• Embed with power engineers and the U.S. go-to-market team to map workflows, constraints and high-leverage tooling opportunities • Serve as the primary field customer and product partner for tooling built with Product and Engineering • Dogfood new FDE and AI tooling on live work and pressure-test usefulness, correctness, reliability and fit • Turn field evidence into requirements, priorities and acceptance criteria • Investigate data, write Python and SQL, build prototypes and integrations, debug workflows, and support high-priority customer work • Lead rollout across the U.S. team, including onboarding, training and support during real engagements • Establish operating standards, measure adoption and outcomes, and prevent regression to older workflows • Define quality standards for AI-assisted work, human-review requirements, and processes for capturing lessons and failure modes • Convert recurring field needs into reusable workflows, product capabilities and playbooks • Help leadership define engagement criteria, decision rights, handoffs and success measures

🎯 Requirements

• Experience building and shipping maintainable software inside a product-engineering organisation • Meaningful power or utility context; experience in power systems, utilities, grid technology or adjacent critical infrastructure strongly preferred • Fluency in Python, SQL, APIs, data pipelines, cloud systems and modern developer tooling • Experience with modern data and AI workflows; Databricks and AI-native developer or agentic tooling valuable • Rigorous approaches to evaluation, security and correctness • Ability to discover root problems and distinguish one-off requests from repeatable needs • Strong product judgement translating technical user needs into useful tools • Experience driving adoption of tools or workflows with busy technical teams under live delivery pressure • Credibility in complex enterprise environments and ability to communicate with engineers, utility leaders and executives • High agency, low ego and sound judgement; ability to lead without hierarchy • Willingness to travel regularly and spend meaningful time with customers and the U.S. team • Experience as a Forward Deployed Engineer, customer-embedded product engineer or technical lead helpful but not required