Principal Architect, Simulation Platform

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🏄 California, Michigan – Remote

🏄 California – Remote 🚗 Michigan – Remote

💵 $200k - $240k / year

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Utilidata

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11 - 50 employees

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

⚡ Energy

🔧 Hardware

💰 $26.8M Series B on 2022-02

Artificial Intelligence • Energy • Hardware

Utilidata is a company that specializes in integrating artificial intelligence into edge devices, specifically focusing on transforming the electric grid. Their Karman platform, which operates on custom NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano hardware, is designed to enable AI computing at the edge, facilitating the real-time collection and use of data for improved decision-making in utilities. Utilidata collaborates with various partners to innovate the management of the electrical grid, aiming to make it more efficient, intelligent, and sustainable. They emphasize providing clean, affordable, and resilient energy solutions, leveraging distributed AI and partnerships with leading technology and utility companies.

📋 Description

• Own the end-to-end architecture of the Karman Digital Environment (KDE) simulation platform for developing, testing, and validating Karman before production deployment • Architect systems spanning sub-millisecond control paths through system-level orchestration with coherent time management and deterministic behavior • Design and evolve time synchronization, signal routing, data-flow orchestration, deterministic replay, scenario execution, platform APIs, and data contracts • Define and maintain performance targets for latency, jitter, throughput, and fidelity, and lead full-stack optimization • Serve as technical authority for simulation and validation methodology • Partner with algorithm, QA, product, hardware, firmware, and GTM teams • Build and lead an engineering team covering real-time systems, simulation infrastructure, power systems modeling, and GPU calibration • Remain hands-on in architecture and critical technical decisions • Represent KDE on a cross-functional council and arbitrate platform priorities • Travel periodically to the company headquarters in Ann Arbor, Michigan

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's or advanced degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, Physics, or a related field • 10+ years in systems architecture, simulation platforms, real-time or hardware-in-the-loop systems, embedded systems, or high-performance distributed platforms • Experience as a hands-on player-coach leading small, high-performing engineering teams • Proven record designing and delivering simulation platforms or large-scale test systems treated as production hardware by engineering teams • Experience with production-scale data ingestion, telemetry, and playback • Ability to design platform APIs and data contracts used by multiple teams • Deep expertise in scheduling, concurrency, memory access patterns, latency budgets, jitter measurement, and sub-millisecond determinism • Substantive fluency in AC power distribution, control-loop dynamics, and electrical protection systems, or comparable depth in an adjacent domain • Experience leading or contributing to a novel modeling problem in the platform's domain • Strong communication skills for technical and non-technical stakeholders • Willingness to travel up to 25% of the time • GPU-based systems or accelerator experience preferred • Data center power infrastructure or hyperscaler energy-aware computing experience preferred • Familiarity with AI inference serving systems such as vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, or Triton preferred • Must be authorized to work in the United States; visa sponsorship requirements are addressed in the application

🏖️ Benefits

• Stock options • Flexible paid time off • Health, dental, and vision benefits • Employer-match 401k • Flexible work environment • Mentorship and growth opportunities • Diverse and inclusive workplace • Competitive compensation