The Company  
Nira is a software company with a mission of accelerating the integration of large-scale 
renewable energy projects. Developers of solar, wind, and energy storage projects use 
Nira’s software to find the best locations to site their projects and help manage them 
through the queue. Nira’s software products simplify complex and niche electrical 
engineering concepts that would otherwise lead most renewable energy projects to be 
cancelled after significant investment.

In less than five years, Nira has solidified a track record of success a with a growing, 
and profitable, 25+ employee company. They’ve established an extremely reputable 
brand and have a rapidly growing customer base. The opportunity to join such an early 
stage, yet risk-reduced, software company in growth mode is a rare opportunity.  
 
Job Description  
Nira is hiring Transmission Planning Engineers to join the product team comprised of 
half planning engineers and half software engineers. In this role, you’ll work with other 
planning engineers and software engineers to build products that help renewable 
developers put together successful project portfolios. Specifically, you’ll:  
• Focus on deepening and expanding your transmission planning and generator 
interconnection studies subject matter expertise. 
• Work with software engineers and product managers to codify your domain 
knowledge into Nira’s software products’ backend. 
• Support the full product life cycle including product ideation, research and 
development, coding, sales support, customer support, and product 
maintenance. 
 
Who We’re Looking For  
This could be a great fit if: 
• You have experience with generation interconnection related studies. You 
have 2+ years of hands on experience with tools like TARA, PSS/E, Power 
World, Python, etc.; and you already have a sense of what data renewable 
developers need to build a portfolio of successful projects. 
• You’re motivated by having ownership in your work. You take initiative on 
projects and have a strong preference to be a trailblazer. Or when the "trail" is 
given to you, you are motivated to challenge it and ensure it's the best trail every 
step of the way. 
• You’re ready to roll up your sleeves for the team, and no task is beneath 
you. Sometimes the work isn’t always sexy, but you’re down to do it anyway if it 
means advancing the mission and providing value to our customers. 
• You want to level up your software engineering skills. The power of Nira 
comes from codifying our transmission planning knowledge! You’ll work directly 
with an extremely talented group of software engineers to create products. If you 
like to code, this is the highest value opportunity in the space to grow this skillset. 
• You’re low ego. You may have strong opinions, but you hold them loosely. You 
challenge your instincts, are data driven, and aren’t scared to be wrong. You 
seek to find the best solutions for our customers even if it runs counter to your 
initial thinking.  
 
Why Nira?  
Nira is a mission-oriented company that places a strong emphasis on a positive work 
culture. They have built a world class team of software engineers and transmission 
planning engineers, and you'll be working amongst a team of all stars.

 
The company is growing exponentially, and the opportunity for professional growth is 
huge. The organization is flat, the leadership is transparent, and you get full exposure to 
seeing what it takes to go from 0 to 1 with product development and business in 
general.

This is also an opportunity to get equity in an early-stage startup with rare momentum.  

Compensation

180-220k base, and equity.

As our first Forward Deployed Engineer, your role is to help launch Nira’s new business line with the Independent System Operators (ISOs). You’ll work directly with the founders every day. This is the perfect role for aspiring founders; you’ll learn critical skills by being responsible for going from zero to one at each ISO. And on top of that, you get to play a key role in mitigating the climate crisis.

If you’ve worked as an FDE at Palantir, this is the same role (our CTO is ex-Palantir). As a FDE, you are responsible for the software at a particular ISO. You’ll work hand-in-hand with a Transmission Planning Engineer (TPE) and an Echo (Deployment Strategist). You’ll get to travel across the country to embed directly with the ISO users. If you love talking to users, fixing their problems with software, and shipping to production - all in a week - this is the role for you.

You’ll work side by side with Nira’s domain experts (TPEs) to transform how the grid is built at the ISOs. ISOs are the organizations that plan our electrical grid and they are a critical bottleneck in the energy transition. Making the ISOs more efficient directly accelerates decarbonization of our power grid.

About you:

1. Loves talking to users and fixing their problems. Your favorite thing at your job is seeing software you’ve built make a customer’s life easier.
2. Strong coder with 2+ years of experience as a software engineer (FDE experience a plus)
3. Excitement about travel for on-site client work.
4. Mission-oriented and focused on working on climate
5. Excited about nerding out with Nira’s domain experts (Transmission Planning Engineers) to learn about how the power grid is built and maintained.
6. Operate well in ambiguity and able to take ownership over large pieces of work
7. Capable of rolling with the punches; plans change at a growing startup
   
   

Location Requirements:
This role is in-person Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday at our office in the Financial District (NYC).

Compensation:
190-210k, equity

What you'll do

As a software engineer at Nira, you'll work on software and data products that our customers use every week. Your work will directly accelerate renewables getting built. This work could include rolling out new regions, adding new features or even building brand new products out.

Nira operates in the niche world of Grid Interconnection, which means as a SWE, you'll get to learn about how new renewables get connected to the grid. Day to day, you'll work very closely with Transmission Planning Engineers (TPEs) to get your job done. Both the SWEs and TPEs only have half the picture, so our teams have to be extremely cross-discipline and collaborative. Most teams are structured with 1 PM, 1 SWE and 1 TPE.

Most of the code you'll write will be python data pipelines. There is occasionally some frontend work as well (having FE experience is not a requirement). However, the SWEs that do best here are the ones that don't really care what part of the stack they're working on - they're just excited to be building products that help fix climate.

About you

• 4+ years as a SWE.
• Mission-oriented and focused on working on climate.
• Excited about working with Transmission Engineers.
• Operate well in ambiguity and able to take ownership over large pieces of work.
• Capable of rolling with the punches; plans change at a growing startup.
• Python experience is a plus
• We are hiring any kind of SWE, except for pure frontend engineers.
• This role can be remote, or in-person hybrid from our NYC office.