Power and Energy Systems Engineer

You make personal intelligence affordable to run all day, connecting useful work to energy use and to the constraints of a household. The unit that matters is not chip power, it is what the wall meter says for a given amount of work done.

The work: Characterize idle, peak and sustained power across compute, memory, storage and networking. Design energy-aware operating modes, power budgets and graceful behavior during outages. Evaluate backup-power or home-energy integrations through supported partner interfaces.

What good looks like: In your first 90 days, publish a measured energy profile and implement one improvement in energy per successfully completed task.

Evidence we look for: Bring power-electronics, energy-systems or computer power-management experience. Be comfortable with instruments, workloads and the difference between chip power and wall power.

Required:

• Power electronics, energy systems, or computer power-management experience
• Comfort with instruments and real workloads, not datasheets alone
• You know the difference between chip power and wall power and measure the second
• You can connect an energy number to a household bill honestly

Nice to have:

• Battery systems or UPS design
• Solar or off-grid energy systems, given where we want compute to live
• Performance per watt optimisation across hardware and software

The exercise: Compare an always-on local configuration with scheduled and remote execution, including idle energy, transfer costs and task quality.

How we work: We work together in the office, five days a week, and you can be based at any of our garages: Kirkland Garage (Kirkland, WA); UAE Garage (Dubai, Dubai). We hire across the United States , India and the UAE . We are remote-friendly around family: if you need to work from home some days to look after the people you love, we arrange that with you one person at a time, and we encourage people to use it rather than tough it out.

Pay: We publish what we pay. Indicative ranges by market and level are on our compensation page, and they are realistic going market rates rather than headline numbers. Wherever we hire we pay at least the local market rate, and for full-time roles our floor is a living wage, never the statutory minimum. Compensation is reviewed every year and on promotion.

Equity: Every full-time teammate gets stock options. Four-year vesting with a one-year cliff, sized to role, level and impact, and confirmed in writing at offer. High performers earn refresh grants.

Bonus and commission: An annual performance bonus tied to clear company and personal goals, indicatively 10 to 20 percent of base for non-sales roles. Customer-facing roles carry on-target earnings, typically a 50/50 split of base and variable, with uncapped commission and accelerators above quota.

Health and peace of mind: Medical, dental and vision for you and your family, plus life and disability cover. We have chosen the highest plan tier available to us rather than the cheapest one that clears the bar, because the point of this is that you never have to think about it. The specific plan numbers are confirmed in your offer letter.

401(k) with company matching: A 401(k) with a company match, so the years you spend here compound into something that is yours whatever happens next. The match formula is confirmed in your offer letter.

AI tokens: A budget of AI tokens of your own, because a company that says you should own your AI cannot be the company that rations it. Use them on the work and on whatever you are curious about.

Gym, and the everyday things: A gym membership, and a corporate benefits programme with its own app, where you redeem real discounts with a long list of retailers on the ordinary purchases of a life.

Family: We are remote-friendly around your family, arranged one person at a time, and we would rather you took it than toughed it out.

Referrals: Refer someone we hire full-time who stays a year and you get $1,000 plus $10,000 in referral stock-based equity, on top of your own package.