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Applied AI Engineer

Ter*** · San Francisco, CA, United States
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San Francisco, CA, United States180,000-205,000 USD/yearlyHybrid
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180,000-205,000 USD/yearly
Location
San Francisco, CA, United States
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Job summary

About Ter*** The once-in-a-century transition to autonomous and electric vehicles is underway and will require a multi-trillion-dollar investment in energy and charging infrastructure, and the real estate to site it on. Terawatt is the leader in delivering large-scale, turnkey charging solutions for companies rapidly deploying AV and EV fleets.

Benefits

Package and, where applicable, performance-based incentives.We are building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, a

Qualifications

  • Production Engineering: 5+ years in architecting, deploying, and overseeing production-grade software using Python or TypeScript with a strong emphasis on writing code that is modular, observable, and built to scale
  • Agentic Architectures: Hands-on experience of engineering autonomous agents capable of multi-step reasoning and execution—utilizing patterns like ReAct or Plan-and-Execute—while integrating seamlessly with external
  • Proven ability to work closely with Product to scope, prioritize, and independently deliver features from definition through deployment
  • Experience mentoring junior engineers or contributing to architectural design discussions
  • Experience with Git workflows, agile methodology, and contributing to architectural discussions
  • Ability to customize and retrain models for advanced internal use cases via practical experience in machine learning frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, or scikit-learn
  • Compensation for this role is determined by several factors, including the cost of labor in specific geographic markets, and these ranges are intended to provide a helpful reference.
  • The actual compensation offer will be based on the candidate’s location,

Responsibilities

  • As an Applied AI engineer, you will be the software engineer building Terawatt’s internal AI platform.
  • Architect the internal AI platform.
  • Create the reusable primitives — evaluation harnesses, MCP servers, tool libraries, prompt patterns — that turn one-off prototypes into a flywheel
  • Embed with teams across the business.
  • Work closely with Development, Finance, and Ops teams.
  • Together with the PM for AI, translate ambiguous, high-stakes problems — site selection decisions, financial & layout modeling, interconnection workflows — into well-scoped agent specs with clear success criteria
  • Prototype and build agentic workflows.
  • Design and ship LLM-powered agents that reason, plan, and act across Terawatt's

Skills

Leadership

Degrees

Associate

Industry

AutomotiveEnergyLogistics

Company size

ScaleupSmb