Founding Professional Engineer (Electrical)

Monterra is expanding its business to establish an AI-native engineering services company, seeking a Founding Professional Engineer. In this unique role, you will deliver engineering services while collaborating with a product and software engineering team to enhance AI tools that improve efficiency in electrical engineering tasks.

Responsibilities:

• Produce and deliver permit-ready drawing packages to clients - SLDs, panel schedules, load calculations, site plans - the same work you'd do at a traditional engineering firm
• Document the logic, rules, and judgement calls that go into every decision, working directly with our product & engineering team as the subject matter expert
• Produce permit-ready drawing packages for customers, starting with EV charging projects - site plans, SLDs, panel schedules, load calculations
• Stamp and deliver completed packages to customers, owning the engineering quality and AHJ compliance end-to-end
• Collaborate directly with customers to understand requirements and iterate on designs based on feedback
• As you work, document every design decision, rule-of-thumb, and AHJ-specific requirements - to coach our AI engineering assistant
• Develop standardized templates, symbol libraries, and drawing conventions that become the foundation of our automated output
• Work directly with our product & engineering team to communicate and clarify these rules, requirements, and knowledge
• Provide feedback and perform QC on the AI engineering assistant - by validating output, testing tools as part of your drawing production workflow, and more
• Maintain a structured correction log - every issue you find gets documented with root cause, code reference, and AHJ context so it feeds back into the system
• Develop playbooks for the AI engineering assistant for different types of projects - e.g., review checklists and quality standards for different project types and jurisdictions
• Scale your throughput - the goal is to increase the number of stamped drawings we can deliver drastically as AI output quality improves and tedious work is effectively handled by the AI assistant

Requirements:

• PE license in high-volume EV deployment states (e.g., CA, MA, TX, NY, etc.); willingness to obtain additional state licenses as needed
• 7+ years of electrical design experience, with demonstrated experience producing permit-ready drawing packages (site plans, SLDs, panel schedules, load calculations)
• Deep working knowledge of NEC and experience navigating AHJ-specific requirements
• Experience with EV charging infrastructure design (DCFC and/or L2 installations, utility interconnection, load management, light civil & structural design)
• Strong verbal and written communication skills: ability to articulate engineering rules to teammates who are not experts in your area of expertise
• Proficient with CAD and BIM tools
• Qualities we value: Intensely curious, Strong team player, Pursuit of excellence, Strong sense of ownership and accountability, Self-starter, Creative problem solver. Comfort & natural knack for toggling between 80/20 & scrappy vs. detail-oriented & perfectionist depending on context
• Familiarity with CAD automation, scripting, or parametric design tools
• Comfort working with AI tools - not because you'll be coding, but because you'll be collaborating with AI systems daily