VP of Software

TAR•San Francisco, CA

8d•Onsite

About The Position

TAR develops, builds, and operates fully islanded solar and storage campuses that deliver firm power to AI data centers, and runs them as a growing fleet. That business generates a wide software surface: energy and plant data, fleet telemetry, tooling for construction and operations, and the customer-facing systems that sit on top of them. As VP of Software, you own all of it outside robotics, spanning the core platform, data, cloud infrastructure, and internal and customer-facing tooling. You take the software organization from where it stands today to what a fleet of GW-scale campuses demands, set the architecture the rest of the team builds on, and partner with the autonomy team on the interfaces to robotics without owning onboard autonomy. This is a leadership-team role for an engineer with 10+ years of experience, including 5+ years leading software organizations, based at our San Francisco engineering office.

Requirements

10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years in a leadership role at the Director, Head of, or VP level building and running a software organization.
Direct, hands-on experience managing a software engineering team, including hiring, structuring, and developing both individual contributors and managers.
Demonstrated ownership of platform, data, or infrastructure software for an operationally intensive business, taking systems from early development through production scale.
Deep expertise in platform architecture, data systems, or cloud infrastructure, with the judgment to set technical direction others build on.
Track record of building and scaling a software organization from zero to one while setting technical direction and engineering process.
Strong communication skills, comfortable representing software and platform decisions to executive leadership, customers, and investors.

Nice To Haves

Experience building software for energy, utilities, or other industrial infrastructure operators.
Experience partnering with hardware or robotics teams on data integration, such as telemetry or fleet data pipelines.
Background at a high-growth, venture-backed infrastructure or industrial technology company, such as Anduril, Palantir, or SpaceX.

Responsibilities

Own the software strategy and technical roadmap for TAR's core platform, data, and business-critical systems, aligning engineering priorities with the company's energy-infrastructure mission and business goals.
Build and lead the software engineering organization, hiring and developing individual contributors and engineering managers as scope grows, as a group distinct from the autonomy and robotics software team.
Set system architecture across platform, data, cloud infrastructure, and internal and customer-facing tooling, keeping systems secure, reliable, and built to scale with the business.
Drive the software development lifecycle end to end across all non-robotics systems, from roadmap and prioritization through release, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
Partner with the autonomy team on the interfaces between company platforms and robotics systems, including data pipelines, fleet telemetry, and reporting, without owning onboard autonomy software.
Serve as the senior software voice on the leadership team, shaping investment decisions, roadmap trade-offs, and technology strategy alongside engineering, product, and executive leadership.
Represent software to customers, partners, and investors when technical credibility in platform and data systems is what earns trust.
Establish the engineering standards, security practices, and reliability processes the broader software organization builds on.