Fleet Software & Controls Engineering Lead

Benefits

• Warrants
• Annual bonus
• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Competitive salary
• Health insurance
• Paid time off

Full Time | Hybrid | Chicago Metro Area

Build the software layer that operates and optimizes a distributed battery fleet.

Intelligent Generation’s mission is to empower businesses to engage the clean energy grid.

Intelligent Generation builds and operates POWR:

Suite, a software platform that helps battery energy storage assets make highly profitable economic decisions.

POWR:

Suite connects distributed energy assets to wholesale power markets while also optimizing behind-the-meter value: reducing utility bills, managing demand charges, improving asset performance, supporting resilience, and helping customers capture the full economic value of their energy assets.

Our work sits at the intersection of energy markets, grid operations, virtual power plants, customer savings, software automation, telemetry, and AI‑assisted decision‑making.

We are looking for a software engineering leader to own and scale the fleet software and controls‑adjacent application layer of POWR:

Suite. This is a leadership role. You will be hands‑on early, but the expectation is that you will grow into leading engineers, shaping architecture, and orchestrating AI agents that support software delivery, testing, documentation, monitoring, and operational workflows.

Why this role matters POWR:

Suite operates in the real world. The software affects physical assets, market participation, customer bills, demand charge outcomes, operator decisions, asset performance, resilience, and revenue confidence.

As IG scales, we need fleet software that makes economic decisions more repeatable, explainable, observable, and optimized across market and customer‑side value streams.

You will help build that layer.

Lead the software services that support dispatch, state‑of‑charge management, availability, asset readiness, market participation, customer bill optimization, demand charge management, resilience use cases, and operational decision‑making across a growing BESS fleet.

Own the tools operators and field teams use every day: control panels, fleet dashboards, workflow tools, alerts, status views, exception handling, and operational decision support.

Design and operate the service layer that moves telemetry, commands, statuses, and operational events across POWR:

Suite. Build for reliability, observability, ordering, failure recovery, and real‑world operating conditions.

Develop deep fluency in how software decisions affect physical asset behavior and economic outcomes. Partner across controls, operations, and platform teams to make fleet behavior safer, clearer, and more repeatable.

Build software that helps determine when assets should charge, discharge, preserve state of charge, participate in market programs, reduce customer demand charges, or support resilience needs.

Build software that reduces manual steps in asset onboarding, configuration, commissioning, testing, and readiness tracking.

Build, maintain, evaluate, and govern agents that support software delivery and operations, including code review agents, test agents, regression agents, documentation agents, commissioning support agents, and operator workflow assistants.

Over time, build and lead a software engineering function. Define how engineers and agents work together to improve delivery speed, review quality, test coverage, documentation, operational support, and system reliability.

• Understand POWR:
  
  Suite’s current fleet software, dispatch workflows, operator tools, economic decisioning logic, and controls‑adjacent processes
• Own a defined improvement in the fleet or operator workflow
• Document key system flows, dependencies, decision points, and failure modes
• Identify high‑value agent‑assisted opportunities in development, testing, operations, or operator support

• Take primary…