SB Energy

Manager - Forward-Deployed AI Engineering

SB Energy
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8 hours ago
Denver, CO, USA +3 moreStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$140k - $165k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Create reusable personalized skills, plugins, and agents with Codex, including versioning, documentation, and ongoing improvements.
  • Connect approved systems, documents, and data through APIs and Model Context Protocol tools with permission-aware retrieval and authorized actions.
  • Deploy Azure applications and integrations with appropriate identity, access, secrets, networking, monitoring, and recovery practices.
  • Test representative tasks and failure scenarios, diagnose issues across code, data, models, plugins, agents, and integrations, and resolve root causes.
  • Use Codex to explore repositories, implement features, troubleshoot failures, review code, and run meaningful tests.
  • Build, deploy, and maintain applications, services, data workflows, and agent integrations through production support.
  • Launch solutions with users, provide guides and training, gather feedback, and improve adoption.
  • Learn business workflows with domain experts and translate ambiguous requests into scope and acceptance criteria.
  • Measure workflow quality, cycle time, manual effort, adoption, and reliability, and report verified outcomes.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Data Engineering, or a related technical field is required.
  • Master's or PhD in Computer Science, AI/ML, Data Systems, Information Systems, or a related field is preferred.
  • 5-8+ years of experience in relevant areas such as forward-deployed engineering, data engineering, software engineering, enterprise AI, energy infrastructure, or decision-support systems.
  • Demonstrated ability to build, deploy, debug, and maintain useful software and explain technical decisions, resolved failures, and user outcomes.
  • Strong coding ability in Python, TypeScript, or a comparable language, with practical knowledge of APIs, data handling, Git, testing, and integration.
  • Expert practical fluency with Codex, including task and repository structuring, skill authoring, tool use, reviewing diffs, and testing generated results.
  • Deep hands-on Azure experience with applications or integrations, authentication, permissions, secrets, deployment, observability, and troubleshooting.
  • Experience with MCP, tool calling, retrieval, or comparable AI integration patterns, including constraining tool authority and evaluating behavior.
  • Ability to learn unfamiliar domains, work through incomplete documentation, collaborate with technical and non-technical colleagues, explain tradeoffs, and respect confidentiality and business controls.

Benefits

  • 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents.
  • 401(k) with company match.
  • Generous paid time off and 11 paid holidays.
  • 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
  • Life, AD&D, and long-term disability coverage.
  • Flexible spending accounts for medical, dependent care, transit, and parking, with company contributions.
  • Mental, physical, and social wellness support with company contributions.
  • Flexible work arrangements and hybrid office setup benefits.
  • Monthly phone, internet, and data reimbursement.
  • Optional legal and pet insurance plans.
  • Device purchase support.
  • Full-time position based in Redwood City, San Diego, Denver, Phoenix, or Austin, with up to 10% domestic travel.
  • Performance-based bonuses, equity grants, and health and wellness benefits may also be included in total rewards.

Categories

Forward Deployed
SB Energy

About SB Energy

201-500 employees

SB Energy develops, builds, owns, and operates utility‑scale solar and battery storage projects in the United States, selling power to utilities and large energy buyers via long‑term contracts. Founded in 2019 and based in the San Francisco Bay Area, the company runs an integrated platform spanning project development through operations. It manages a multi‑gigawatt portfolio and pipeline focused on decarbonizing grid and data‑center loads.

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