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Forward-Deployed AI Engineer, Energy & Hardware

Put AI into energy and connected hardware, from smart panels to IoT logistics.

San Francisco · Brazil · Spain · Poland · RemoteFull-time

Plank places forward-deployed engineers inside energy and hardware teams to take AI into production across connected devices and the physical world. Plank already builds smart-panel energy software with Span.io, and IoT cold-chain logistics with Artyc. You own delivery end to end, vendor-neutral across OpenAI, Anthropic, and open models.

What you will do

  • Embed with a customer team, often on-site, and own delivery end to end: discovery, technical scoping, system design, build, and production rollout.
  • Drive solutions from a 0 to 1 prototype through MVP to scale, writing and reviewing production-grade code across the stack.
  • Build the hard parts hands-on: agents and sub-agents, MCP servers, RAG pipelines, evals, and integrations against real systems of record.
  • Be the primary technical owner of the engagement, partnering with the customer's engineers, domain experts, and leadership.
  • Codify what works into reusable building blocks, playbooks, and repeatable deployment patterns.
  • Bring the field back to product: surface deployment friction and eval-driven signal that sharpens what gets built next.
  • Integrate with devices, telemetry, and IoT pipelines, and design for real-world reliability at the edge.

What we are looking for

  • 4 to 10 years of engineering experience, ideally customer-facing or in deployment; former founders welcome.
  • You write and review production-grade code across frontend and backend, with Python as a baseline and TypeScript a strong plus.
  • Hands-on production experience with LLMs: prompt engineering, agent development, evals, RAG, and deployment at scale.
  • A track record of scoping and shipping complex systems, and comfort with cloud, data pipelines, and enterprise environments.
  • High agency and comfort with ambiguity: you turn vague business problems into concrete technical plans and own the outcome.
  • Strong communication and stakeholder management, from technical discovery to the executive relationship.
  • Interest or experience in energy, IoT, hardware, or embedded systems.

Nice to have

  • Experience with IoT, telemetry, embedded systems, or edge deployments.

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