Software Engineer, Agents

Piq Energy is building an autonomous grid planning platform that automates power system analysis for energy developers and utilities. The Software Engineer, Agents will develop, deploy, and maintain production AI agents, backend services, and infrastructure while owning features, shaping architecture, and collaborating with software engineers, power systems experts, data scientists, designers, and users.

Responsibilities:

• Engineer the skills and tools our agents use and how these capabilities compose with the rest of the platform
• Extend the evaluation systems that grade agent output, working with our power systems engineers to turn their judgment into test sets, automated grading, and regression checks
• Build the memory and context management approaches that allow agents to retrieve the right information, work effectively on long tasks, and become personalized to user and organization preferences
• Lead workstreams end-to-end, including gathering product requirements, proposing solution architectures, developing an implementation plan, managing technical dependencies, and coordinating rollout plans
• Collaborate directly with users and customer-facing teammates to gather feedback and understand their needs, translating insights into design solutions
• Uphold the technical bar as you build, ensuring our platform is performant, scalable, and secure
• Provide hands-on mentorship and feedback for teammates
• Write clean, maintainable code following best practices
• Participate in and lead design discussions, code reviews, and technical planning meetings
• Contribute to improving software engineering practices, with a bias toward action, ensuring fast iterations and delivery of impactful solutions