Staff / Senior Staff Software Engineer

Role overview

As a Staff / Senior Staff Software Engineer at Equilibrium Energy, you’ll help deliver software systems across multiple technical domains (cloud infrastructure, data engineering, ML engineering, and application development). You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to execute the company’s ML/AI product roadmap and contribute to technical strategy and planning.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deliver, and support software systems across the technical stack.
• Contribute to product development strategy, including design, planning, and productivity improvements.
• Partner with engineers, researchers, and product leaders to design, build, and ship code.
• Build software that supports ML and AI pipelines, including associated data structures.
• Communicate analysis results to influence product, engineering, and leadership decisions.

Requirements

• BS/Master’s in a quantitative discipline (or equivalent practical experience).
• 8+ years of relevant software engineering experience.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals.
• Experience developing in Python, Go, Julia, C, or Rust.
• Expert-level proficiency in Go, Python, C, Rust, or Julia.
• Experience with ML/AI pipeline software and data structures.
• Familiarity with orchestration tools like Temporal.
• Advanced experience with data engineering tools and ecosystems (e.g., ELT, streaming, pub-sub, relational DBs, object DBs, GraphDBs).
• Strong collaboration skills and a collaboration-first mindset.
• Ability to translate product specs into organized code.

Nice to have

• PhD in a quantitative discipline.
• Deep expertise in one or more stack domains, such as:
  • cloud infrastructure
  • data platform and engineering
  • IoT
  • MLOps and ML pipelines
  • simulation ecosystems
  • workflow/microservices orchestration
  • application development
• Experience supporting and releasing ML/AI models for operational workflows (e.g., frequent inference generation).