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.