Staff Software Engineer

GE Vernova • Bellevue, WA

23h

About The Position

GE Vernova is seeking a Staff AI Engineer to build and scale AI-native systems that power intelligent automation across AEMS, ADMS, and DERMS applications. This is a deeply hands-on technical role focused on designing, coding, deploying, and operating production-grade AI agent platforms in mission-critical grid environments. You will architect and implement multi-agent systems, model-serving infrastructure, and distributed backend services that integrate real-time grid data, optimization engines, and AI reasoning capabilities.

Requirements

• Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, AI/ML, or related field.
• 8+ years of hands-on software development experience, with significant backend engineering depth.
• Demonstrated experience building and deploying AI/ML systems into production (not just experimentation).
• Strong proficiency in Python and experience building backend systems in Java, C++, or Go.
• Experience implementing LLM integrations, prompt orchestration, agent tooling, or multi-step AI workflows.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, APIs, and microservices architecture.
• Experience building model serving pipelines and inference systems (REST/gRPC, async processing, streaming).
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Strong debugging and performance optimization skills in distributed environments.
• Experience working with time-series or streaming data systems.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with EMS, DMS, WAMS, SCADA, or power system applications is highly desirable.
• Proven track record of shipping reliable, secure, high-performance systems in production environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and personally implement core components of AI agent frameworks, including orchestration engines, tool integration layers, and state management systems.
• Build production-grade backend services in Python (and/or Java, C++, Go) to support AI inference, workflow automation, and real-time grid analytics.
• Develop and deploy LLM-powered agents with structured prompting, tool usage, guardrails, and memory mechanisms.
• Implement model serving infrastructure, including inference APIs, batching strategies, performance tuning, and monitoring.
• Write scalable microservices and event-driven components that ingest and process high-volume time-series data.
• Integrate AI services with SCADA, PMU, simulation engines, contingency analysis tools, and operational data platforms.
• Optimize system performance for low-latency decision support in control center environments.
• Build CI/CD pipelines, automated tests, and observability tooling for AI services.
• Develop explainability, logging, and traceability mechanisms for AI-generated recommendations or actions.
• Troubleshoot production issues across distributed AI systems and drive performance and reliability improvements.
• Conduct deep code reviews and actively contribute high-quality code to shared repositories.

Benefits

• GE Vernova offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation.
• Available benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage; access to Health Coach from GE Vernova, a 24/7 nurse-based resource; and access to the Employee Assistance Program, providing 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services.
• Retirement benefits include the GE Vernova Retirement Savings Plan, a tax-advantaged 401(k) savings opportunity with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions, as well as access to Fidelity resources and financial planning consultants.
• Other benefits include tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability benefits, life insurance, 12 paid holidays, and permissive time off.
• GE Vernova Inc. or its affiliates (collectively or individually, “GE Vernova”) sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs GE Vernova reserves the right to terminate, amend, suspend, replace, or modify its benefit plans and programs at any time and for any reason, in its sole discretion.
• No individual has a vested right to any benefit under a GE Vernova welfare benefit plan or program.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level