TAR
Software Engineer
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Job Description
TAR builds fully islanded solar and storage campuses that power AI data centers, and running a data center around the clock on an island with no grid behind it is a software problem as much as an electrical one. As Software Engineer, you own the software that lets us design, simulate, and operate power campuses faster than anyone else: high-fidelity digital clones of entire campuses, the geospatial data pipelines that feed automated site design, the design automation itself, and the in-house energy management system that will run the island. You will not do all four at once; expect to go deep on one or two and have real influence over how the rest get built. Your work turns into steel and silicon in the desert on a timeline measured in months, with no legacy codebase and no committee in the way. This role is on-site in San Francisco or Austin, with visits to our West Texas site.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and a track record of shipping systems that other people depend on.
- Fluency in Python and the judgment to know where performance-critical pieces are warranted; language matters less than judgment.
- Comfort in at least one of: numerical simulation, geospatial and GIS data, real-time or embedded control systems, or computational geometry and optimization.
- The ability to work directly with domain experts, from power systems engineers to civil engineers and project developers, and turn their tacit knowledge into software. You should enjoy learning the physics.
- Bias toward first-principles reasoning and toward shipping: we have projects in construction, and software that is not in use is not finished.
Preferred Qualifications
- Prior work in solar, storage, microgrids, or utility-scale power, including familiarity with PVsyst, PSCAD/EMTP, PLEXOS, SAM, or similar.
- Experience with SCADA, Modbus/DNP3, IEC 61850, or industrial control stacks.
- Experience with CAD or geometry pipelines, or generating engineering deliverables programmatically.
- Background in robotics, autonomy, or another domain where software has to survive contact with the physical world.
Skills & Technologies
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Employment Type
Full Time
Experience Level
Senior
Location
San Francisco, CA
Posted
Today
Country
US