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Enerzyz, Engineering

Lead AI Engineer at Enerzyz

Location
Remote (United States)
Compensation
$120k-$180k + Equity

Are you ready to move beyond chatbots and dashboards to control real-world physical infrastructure? Enerzyz is an Antler-backed seed startup building an AI 'mind' for the world’s buildings, which account for 30% of global energy use.

As Lead AI Engineer, you’ll architect a system that fuses reasoning agents with control theory to manage industrial chillers and microgrids. This founding-level role offers total ownership of the AI architecture, a chance to publish in Nature-family journals, and the opportunity to see your code move real valves and save megawatt-hours across global industrial sites.

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Role overview

As Lead AI Engineer, you will architect the AI operating system that controls real-world assets. You’ll bridge the gap between reasoning agents and control theory, deploying models to edge hardware like NVIDIA Jetson. This founding-level role offers ownership over the research agenda, including publishing in top-tier venues like Nature and IEEE.

About Enerzyz

Enerzyz is an AI-powered operating system for energy asset management. Its Enerzyz OS connects to existing building management systems, SCADA systems, PLCs, IoT sensors, and metering infrastructure to create physics-informed digital twins and autonomously optimize HVAC systems, generators, battery energy storage systems, pumps, and other powered assets. The platform uses predictive machine learning and AI agents to orchestrate equipment in real time, reduce energy costs and waste, detect faults, extend asset life, support demand response, and generate sustainability, carbon-accounting, and compliance reports for commercial and industrial facilities.

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What you will do

  • Architect and build the fusion of reasoning models, RL policies, and classical control theory (MPC) to manage complex plant topologies and energy tariffs safely.
  • Deploy models to edge hardware using NVIDIA Jetson and bridge the sim-to-real gap using digital twins and physics-informed machine learning for safe exploration.
  • Set the technical roadmap and research agenda while hiring and mentoring a high-performing team of ML, controls, and MLOps engineers to scale the platform.

Who this is a fit for

  • 7+ years of experience building ML systems with at least 2 years in a leadership or roadmap-owning capacity, plus proficiency in Python and PyTorch/JAX.
  • Proven track record of putting learned policies onto live physical equipment (robotics, AVs, or power grids) with a deep grounding in MPC and stability constraints.
  • Hands-on expertise with foundation models including fine-tuning, tool use, and agentic planning, as well as familiarity with industrial protocols like BACnet or Modbus.

Why this role is remarkable

  • Founding-level ownership: As the most senior technical hire, you will design the entire AI architecture of Enerzyz OS, deciding how reasoning agents and learned policies control multi-megawatt physical assets.
  • Real-world impact: Your models won’t just sit in notebooks; they will move real valves and stage chillers in live hotels and data centers, optimizing 30% of global energy usage.
  • Research leadership: Lead the development of a domain-specific HVAC foundation model with a dedicated mandate to publish original research in prestigious venues like IEEE and Nature-family journals.

How Jack & Jill work together

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