Software Engineer - Grid Services

# Software Engineer
- Grid Services Emerald AIBe an Early Applicant Full Timemid Boston, Massachusetts, USPosted Today##

Role Overview Emerald AI is hiring a mid-level Software Engineer
- Grid Services. This is a full-time role in Boston, Massachusetts. posted today. applications are still in the early window, before most candidates have applied. Full responsibilities, required qualifications, and the apply link are listed in the description below.## Resume Keywords to Include Make sure these keywords appear in your resume to improve ATS scoring

Python

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About Emerald AIWe’re at a pivotal moment for AI and energy. Demand for compute is skyrocketing, but power constraints are becoming a critical bottleneck. Emerald AI sits at the intersection of these two worlds, enabling AI data centers to scale without overwhelming the grid.

Our Emerald Conductor software platform makes data centers flexible and responsive, allowing them to adjust power usage dynamically. This unlocks massive AI growth without major new infrastructure, while also strengthening the grid and supporting the expansion of renewable energy.

We’re a team of experts across AI, cloud, software, and energy—on a mission to scale AI sustainably. We’re backed by leading investors and partners including Radical Ventures and NVIDIA.Learn more about our vision, team, and backers at  About the Role The Grid Services team builds the intelligence that connects Emerald Conductor to the electric grid.

As a Software Engineer on the Grid Services team, you'll develop the systems that enable data centers to participate in wholesale electricity markets and demand response programs. You'll build software that ingests grid and market signals, forecasts system behavior, determines available load flexibility, and executes reliable dispatch across utilities, ISOs/RTOs, and energy market operators.

This role combines distributed systems engineering with optimization, forecasting, and energy market expertise. Much of the challenge lies in translating complex market rules - including capacity accreditation, baseline methodologies, settlement, and performance requirements - into reliable production software. Small implementation mistakes can have significant operational and financial consequences.

As one of the early engineers on the team, you'll help define the architecture, own major technical decisions, and work closely with control systems, platform, and AI infrastructure teams to turn grid-side decisions into real-world data center actions.

Key Responsibilities
* Design and build software integrations with ISOs/RTOs, utilities, aggregators, and demand response platforms.
* Develop optimization and control algorithms that determine when and how data center resources including compute workloads, on-site generation, and storage are dispatched in response to grid signals
* Build forecasting models for electricity demand, data center load, prices and grid conditions to support market participation and dispatch decisions.
* Translate wholesale market and demand response program rules including capacity accreditation, baselines, measurement & verification (M&V), settlement, and compliance into operational software
* Build reliable data pipelines that ingest, validate, and process real-time operational and market data.
* Own software services from design through deployment, monitoring, and long-term operation.

Minimum requirements
* 7+ years of software engineering experience building production systems in Python
* Strong experience designing and operating reliable, distributed software systems where correctness and availability are critical
* Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure), containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines
* Experience building data pipelines and working with large-scale operational datasets
* Familiarity with SQL and modern data engineering practices
* Experience in electric utilities, ISOs/RTOs, wholesale electricity markets, demand response, or adjacent energy systems
* Excellent…