Texture

Staff Forward-Deployed Engineer

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3 months ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+

Base Salary

$225k - $245k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Embed with approximately 3–5 concurrent customer accounts from kickoff through production
  • Join customer operations calls, understand customer needs, and lead technical conversations
  • Build production software including integrations for meters, sensors, and OEM devices
  • Develop energy-accounting and bill-credit reporting, behavioral demand-response programs, data pipelines, and supporting infrastructure
  • Design reusable reference architectures rather than one-off customer solutions
  • Perform landscape analyses for unfamiliar data classes and determine platform fit, services scope, or opportunities for new reference architectures
  • Translate technical requirements between Texture’s engineering team and non-technical utility customers
  • Specify work independently, collaborate directly with the CTO and engineering team, and share on-call ownership for shipped systems

Requirements

  • 10+ years of engineering experience and repeated experience shipping production systems
  • Ability to operate independently, own ambiguity, and make sound decisions without a PM or detailed specification
  • Strong communication skills, especially when explaining technical systems to non-technical audiences
  • Backend integration experience is central; breadth across DevOps, infrastructure, data engineering, or data science is beneficial but not required
  • Curiosity about the energy grid and utility systems
  • Prior forward-deployed, solutions-engineering, or consulting experience is a plus but not required

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • 401(k)
  • Flexible PTO
  • Remote-first work arrangement with an NYC office and slight preference for candidates in or near NYC
  • Approximately one multi-day customer site visit per month on average, with travel expected to increase as the customer base grows
  • Equity of 0.08–0.12% common stock options

Categories

BackendData EngineeringDevOpsForward Deployed
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About Texture

11-50 employees

Texture builds an industry cloud platform that coordinates energy operations across distributed assets, teams, and partners. Utilities, grid operators, and energy providers use its software to see, plan, and run distributed energy resources and electrification workloads from a single system, with data services and AI assisting operations. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in New York, the company is privately held.

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