Forward Deployed Power Engineer

Gridsight builds analytics software for electric utilities. The Forward Deployed Power Engineer leads technical strategy and delivery for US utility engagements, advises customers, and connects field needs with product development and engineering.

Responsibilities:

• Represent Gridsight as the lead technical authority in sales calls and customer meetings, from engineers to the C-Suite, advising utilities on how Gridsight can address their needs
• Lead technical discovery to understand utilities’ network models, data, software stack, and the operational and regulatory problems they need to solve
• Assess what is feasible off-the-shelf, what will require new Product or analytics capabilities, and where the technical risks are
• Partner with the commercial team to draft technical components of RFIs, RFPs, and funding and program applications
• Present case studies and technical findings, often alongside customers, at industry conferences, working groups and webinars
• Partner with the Account Executive and Engagement Manager to scope each engagement: the key customer problems, the technical approach to solve them, and what we need to deliver to win the next phase
• Own overall technical strategy for customer engagements, including deploying new and existing Product capabilities and leveraging Gridsight’s grid modeling workbench to deliver the highest-value customer insights and outcomes
• Act as the trusted technical advisor to utility planning and engineering teams
• Lead technical onboarding sessions with utility teams, educating them on how Gridsight fits into their existing engineering workflows and tooling
• Direct the work of Customer Data Analysts on each engagement, providing technical direction and final approval for dashboards, visualizations and other consultative deliverables
• Bring what you learn on engagements back to Gridsight's product and engineering teams, turning field issues into clear requirements for new features and tooling. Distinguish one-off requests from repeatable customer signals, and push for the highest-value capabilities
• Shape and test new grid modeling tooling as it rolls out, in partnership with Product, and teach other Gridsight engineers and analysts how and when to use it
• Encode repeatable study methods (hosting capacity, EV/DER impact, interconnection screens) as reusable agent skills and workflows, so each engagement makes the next one faster
• Define how we validate AI-generated engineering analysis: build known-answer test cases and evals, check agent outputs against first principles and manual studies, and set the bar for what trusted agentic engineering looks like

Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience in power engineering or distribution and transmission planning at a utility, consultancy, or grid technology vendor
• Hands-on fluency with agentic coding tools (e.g. Claude Code, Codex): writing and maintaining context files, skills and workflows, connecting tools via MCP, and debugging agent traces when a run goes off the rails
• Experience leading customer-facing delivery of grid software and/or engineering studies
• A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or Power Systems, or a related engineering field
• Strong grounding in distribution and transmission systems, including power flow modeling, hosting capacity, DER integration, new load/generation interconnection, and demand forecasting
• Experience working with utility data from GIS, CIS, AMI and SCADA systems
• Strong Python and SQL, used mostly to review, debug and steer AI-generated code and analysis, plus comfort with git and code review
• Experience deploying enterprise utility software such as DERMS and ADMS, either as a utility engineer or as a consultant
• A self-starter with an impact-oriented mindset suited to a fast-moving startup: you judge your success in terms of customer outcomes, take initiative, and take ownership of the technical outcome