Job Title: Head of Engineering Preferred Locations: Salt Lake City (HQ), Houston, Austin, or Atlanta Alternate Locations: East CoastType: Full-time Reports To: Founder &amp; Chief Product OfficerAbout UsneuroGrid is a well-funded climate-tech startup building a next-generation SaaS platform to accelerate the development of modern, low-cost power plants and AI infrastructure—including data centers, solar, wind, battery storage, nuclear, and transmission.Energy is the world’s largest and most critical industry—and it’s undergoing a once-in-a-century transformation driven by rapid AI datacenter expansion. Our AI-powered platform is built to meet this moment. By transforming fragmented data, manual workflows, and institutional knowledge into a single intelligent work orchestration system, we help energy and data center developers move faster, reduce costs, and make better decisions.Our product strategy is intentionally broad and ambitious, supporting users across multiple domains—land control, interconnection, permitting, engineering, finance, stakeholder engagement, and more.We are headquartered in Salt Lake City, with a distributed engineering team across the U.S. and India. For this role, we’re especially interested in candidates who will comfortably arrange their workday to overlap for several hours with engineers in India, with preference for candidates in Salt Lake City, Houston, Austin, or Atlanta.<hr>The RoleWe're looking for a Head of Engineering to lead and scale our technical team and our AI-native SaaS platform. You’ll work closely with the Chief Product Officer and Head of Product Design to translate the well-researched and validated product strategy into an AI-native technical roadmap, collaborate on grooming work for the engineers, and co-build alongside them.As an early team member, you’ll help shape not only the architecture and systems, but also the culture and values of the company. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment and brings both executional excellence and strategic insight. Prior experience developing zero-to-one and one-to-ten products is needed to be successful.This is a hands-on leadership role—coding, mentoring, designing systems, and growing the team. We expect the Head of Engineering to develop and progress into the role of Chief Technology Officer as neuroGrid grows into full asset lifecycle management.<hr>What You’ll Do<ul><li>Lead the engineering function with clarity, urgency, and empathy</li><li>Collaborate with the Chief Product Officer on delivering the product roadmap</li><li>Partner with product and executive leadership on strategy, hiring, and long-term planning</li><li>Continually push, refine, and refactor the AI stack and extend AI agents across all core user workflows</li><li>Translate product design wireframes and requirements into actionable tasks, technical designs, and clear guidance for engineers using Linear</li><li>Standup and maintain best-in-class engineering practices—CI/CD, Dev/SecOps, testing, documentation, code quality, velocity tracking</li><li>Navigate ambiguity and guide the team through rapid iteration and early-stage tradeoffs&nbsp;</li><li>Foster a collaborative, friendly, and high-performance team culture that values trust, curiosity, and continuous improvement</li><li>Mentor and advance the careers of the current and future engineering team</li><li>Hire the next wave of full-stack, ML, and UX engineers</li></ul><hr>What We’re Looking For<ul><li>8+ years building enterprise SaaS, with 3+ years leading engineers at a startup</li><li>Proven success building zero-to-one and one-to-ten data-heavy enterprise platforms</li><li>Hands-on experience integrating AI/ML capabilities into production systems</li><li>Comfortable with ambiguity and resource constraints; able to make smart, pragmatic decisions</li><li>Values-aligned leadership: transparent, low-ego, action-oriented, people-focused, and mission-driven</li></ul><hr>Why Join Us<ul><li>Help shape the foundation of a high-impact AI-driven SaaS platform serving one of the world’s most vital industries</li><li>Join a startup culture that values openness, kindness, collaboration, and learning</li><li>Work on a bold, ambitious product that spans the full lifecycle of data center and energy project development</li><li>Operate in a fast-paced, supportive environment with the freedom to experiment and iterate</li><li>Grow from the Head of Engineering to the Chief Technology Officer over time</li><li>Competitive compensation with a strong equity component, reflecting your impact and commitment as an early team member</li></ul>To Apply: Send your resume and GitHub portfolio link to <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:varun@neuroGrid.ai">varun@neuroGrid.ai</a> and <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:mike@neuroGrid.ai">mike@neuroGrid.ai</a>

neuroGrid is a well-funded climate-tech startup building a next-generation SaaS platform to accelerate the development of modern, low-cost power plants and AI infrastructure—including data centers, solar, wind, battery storage, nuclear, and transmission.Energy is the world’s largest and most critical industry—and it’s undergoing a once-in-a-century transformation driven by rapid AI datacenter expansion. Our AI-powered platform is built to meet this moment. By transforming fragmented data, manual workflows, and institutional knowledge into a single intelligent work orchestration system, we help energy and data center developers move faster, reduce costs, and make better decisions.Our product strategy is intentionally broad and ambitious, supporting users across multiple domains—land control, interconnection, permitting, engineering, finance, stakeholder engagement, and more.We are headquartered in Salt Lake City, with a distributed engineering team across the U.S. and India. For this role, we’re especially interested in candidates who will comfortably arrange their workday to overlap for several hours with engineers in India, with preference for candidates in Salt Lake City, Houston, Austin, or Atlanta.

Head of Engineering (SaaS Startup)

Job Title: Head of Engineering Preferred Locations: Salt Lake City (HQ), Houston, Austin, or Atlanta Alternate Locations: East CoastType: Full-time Reports To: Founder &amp; Chief Product OfficerAbout UsneuroGrid is a well-funded climate-tech startup building a next-generation SaaS platform to accelerate the development of modern, low-cost power plants and AI infrastructure—including data centers, solar, wind, battery storage, nuclear, and transmission.Energy is the world’s largest and most critical industry—and it’s undergoing a once-in-a-century transformation driven by rapid AI datacenter expansion. Our AI-powered platform is built to meet this moment. By transforming fragmented data, manual workflows, and institutional knowledge into a single intelligent work orchestration system, we help energy and data center developers move faster, reduce costs, and make better decisions.Our product strategy is intentionally broad and ambitious, supporting users across multiple domains—land control, interconnection, permitting, engineering, finance, stakeholder engagement, and more.We are headquartered in Salt Lake City, with a distributed engineering team across the U.S. and India. For this role, we’re especially interested in candidates who will comfortably arrange their workday to overlap for several hours with engineers in India, with preference for candidates in Salt Lake City, Houston, Austin, or Atlanta.<hr>The RoleWe're looking for a Head of Engineering to lead and scale our technical team and our AI-native SaaS platform. You’ll work closely with the Chief Product Officer and Head of Product Design to translate the well-researched and validated product strategy into an AI-native technical roadmap, collaborate on grooming work for the engineers, and co-build alongside them.As an early team member, you’ll help shape not only the architecture and systems, but also the culture and values of the company. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment and brings both executional excellence and strategic insight. Prior experience developing zero-to-one and one-to-ten products is needed to be successful.This is a hands-on leadership role—coding, mentoring, designing systems, and growing the team. We expect the Head of Engineering to develop and progress into the role of Chief Technology Officer as neuroGrid grows into full asset lifecycle management.<hr>What You’ll Do<ul><li>Lead the engineering function with clarity, urgency, and empathy</li><li>Collaborate with the Chief Product Officer on delivering the product roadmap</li><li>Partner with product and executive leadership on strategy, hiring, and long-term planning</li><li>Continually push, refine, and refactor the AI stack and extend AI agents across all core user workflows</li><li>Translate product design wireframes and requirements into actionable tasks, technical designs, and clear guidance for engineers using Linear</li><li>Standup and maintain best-in-class engineering practices—CI/CD, Dev/SecOps, testing, documentation, code quality, velocity tracking</li><li>Navigate ambiguity and guide the team through rapid iteration and early-stage tradeoffs&nbsp;</li><li>Foster a collaborative, friendly, and high-performance team culture that values trust, curiosity, and continuous improvement</li><li>Mentor and advance the careers of the current and future engineering team</li><li>Hire the next wave of full-stack, ML, and UX engineers</li></ul><hr>What We’re Looking For<ul><li>8+ years building enterprise SaaS, with 3+ years leading engineers at a startup</li><li>Proven success building zero-to-one and one-to-ten data-heavy enterprise platforms</li><li>Hands-on experience integrating AI/ML capabilities into production systems</li><li>Comfortable with ambiguity and resource constraints; able to make smart, pragmatic decisions</li><li>Values-aligned leadership: transparent, low-ego, action-oriented, people-focused, and mission-driven</li></ul><hr>Why Join Us<ul><li>Help shape the foundation of a high-impact AI-driven SaaS platform serving one of the world’s most vital industries</li><li>Join a startup culture that values openness, kindness, collaboration, and learning</li><li>Work on a bold, ambitious product that spans the full lifecycle of data center and energy project development</li><li>Operate in a fast-paced, supportive environment with the freedom to experiment and iterate</li><li>Grow from the Head of Engineering to the Chief Technology Officer over time</li><li>Competitive compensation with a strong equity component, reflecting your impact and commitment as an early team member</li></ul>To Apply: Send your resume and GitHub portfolio link to <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:varun@neuroGrid.ai">varun@neuroGrid.ai</a> and <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:mike@neuroGrid.ai">mike@neuroGrid.ai</a>

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