Platform Engineering & AI Operations Lead

Benefits

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

Full Time | Hybrid | Chicago Metro Area

Build the platform foundation for POWR:

Suite and IG’s AI-assisted operating model

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, customer savings, software automation, telemetry, and AI-assisted decision-making.

We are looking for a platform engineering leader who can own the infrastructure foundation behind POWR:

Suite and help IG scale an AI-assisted engineering and operating model.

This is a leadership role. You will be hands‑on early, but the expectation is that you will grow into leading people, establishing platform standards, and orchestrating AI agents that improve engineering delivery, reliability, security, and operations.

Cloud platform and infrastructure

Lead the architecture and operation of IG’s cloud platform on GCP, including Cloud Run, GKE, Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, IAM, Terraform, networking, observability, and deployment standards.

CI/CD and engineering enablement

Build and lead the practices that make engineering delivery faster, safer, and more repeatable. Own CI/CD, release automation, environment strategy, deployment quality, and platform guardrails.

Edge-to-cloud reliability

Strengthen the communication layer between field assets and cloud systems. Partner with software, controls, and operations teams to improve telemetry, command paths, failure detection, and recovery patterns.

Security and operational controls

Own practical security and IT operations standards for a company operating live energy infrastructure, including IAM lifecycle, endpoint standards, secrets management, access controls, and production system hygiene.

Agent operations foundation

Build, maintain, evaluate, and govern agents that support platform engineering work, including deployment assistants, infrastructure review agents, security review agents, incident summarizers, documentation agents, and operational troubleshooting agents.

People and agent orchestration

Over time, build and lead a platform engineering function. Establish how work is divided between engineers and agents, how agent outputs are reviewed, and how platform knowledge compounds over time.

• Understand current platform architecture, cloud services, deployments, edge/cloud interfaces, and operational pain points
• Establish a platform ownership map and priority risk list
• Improve documentation around environments, deployment flow, access, and operational dependencies
• Identify high-value opportunities for agent‑assisted platform work

• Improve CI/CD maturity and release reliability
• Strengthen observability and alerting for critical platform services
• Build or deploy early internal agents that assist with platform review, troubleshooting, documentation, or deployment support
• Establish platform standards that engineering teams can follow

• Lead the platform function for POWR:
  
  Suite
• Improve engineering independence, reliability, and operational control
• Mature agent‑assisted engineering workflows
• Build the foundation for a team that can scale with IG’s growth

• 8+ years in platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, Dev Ops, SRE, cloud architecture, or senior software engineering
• Experience leading technical work across teams or mentoring engineers
• Strong production GCP experience
• Terraform or infrastructure‑as‑code experience
• CI/CD ownership in production environments
• Strong Python or equivalent engineering/scripting ability
• Strong…