Forward Deployed Engineer, Intern

Powertown • Boston, MA

6d • $50 - $60

About The Position

This is a high-agency, high-ownership role. Open to the most artistic thinkers with a knack for identifying when things may break. You are a technical student who likes real systems more than toy apps. You are careful, curious, and hard to overwhelm. You like the idea that a bug might not just break a button, but misrepresent what is happening in a live asset.

Requirements

• Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Energy Systems, Robotics, Mathematics, Physics, or a similar technical field.
• Technical student who likes real systems more than toy apps
• Careful, curious, and hard to overwhelm
• Likes the idea that a bug might not just break a button, but misrepresent what is happening in a live asset

Nice To Haves

• Evidence of initiative through projects, research, internships, competitions, open-source work, robotics, hardware/software projects, simulations, or self-directed technical building
• Experience working with agents for live data, sensors, energy systems, IoT, visualization, or operational software
• Exceptional ability exemplified through personal projects

Responsibilities

• Make live energy data understandable
• Build interfaces for status, alarms, events, and telemetry
• Learn how infrastructure software behaves when the physical world is involved
• Own sub-modules inside the codebase and use your immense talent to string together a living execution engine that becomes the heartbeat of Powertown
• Absorb company intel from the team, trust your intuition, predict blockers in the future, and build software that resonates with you

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern
• Education Level: No Education Listed