Company Overview
Amperesand is reinventing how the world powers its most critical systems.
We are facing a once-in-a-generation opportunity for infrastructure disruption. Electricity demand is skyrocketing, driven by AI factories, electric vehicles, and modern industrial growth. Energy supply is shifting to incorporate a more diverse mix of resources – including solar, gas, and batteries – at a massive scale.
And yet the power infrastructure behind our latest mega-projects hasn’t meaningfully changed in nearly 100 years. Supply chains for today’s infrastructure equipment can’t match the pace and sophistication of critical energy projects. Amperesand is building hardware and software that rewrites this broken power infrastructure playbook to support a new era of energy abundance.
We’ve built a new class of intelligent, software-defined power infrastructure products leveraging a decade of advanced medium voltage Solid State Transformer research that’s now ready for commercial deployment.
Our products and solutions go far beyond the capabilities of traditional electrical equipment. We make power systems that are faster to deploy, dramatically smaller and more efficient, and capable of supporting modern, dynamic energy needs for tomorrow’s most demanding energy consumers.
Scalable in-house advanced manufacturing capability is our foundation for meeting timeline and quality expectation to serve infrastructure customers around the world.
Amperesand is led by breakthrough energy hardware development veterans and funded by top tier investors who share our vision of building a category-defining energy technology company.
With hubs in San Francisco, Reno, and Singapore, our global team is laser focused on building foundational technology to solve the most pressing problems in power infrastructure at scale.
Join us in building the power foundation of the future!
Role Summary
We’re hiring a Staff Product Manager to build Amperesand's Energy Intelligence Platform, the software brain that makes our power converters smart and dynamic software defined assets. You will build from scratch and own the development and launch of an AI native control and monitoring platform, from firmware to edge compute to cloud dashboards. You will supercharge the hardware and design the software stack that turns our power electronics into flexible, reliable, grid responsive assets for customers. You will shape the business and partner with executives to define pricing, positioning and go to market strategy for the software platform.
If you're passionate about building impactful AI native software at the intersection of electrification and grid modernization, this is your opportunity to lead.
Responsibilities:
- Own the software roadmap and full product lifecycle for site level controls, monitoring, diagnostics, and customer integrations, from requirements through launch, adoption, and long term maintenance
- Define software strategy for how our site controllers interact with local customer sytems and authorized cloud systems
- Apply AI and machine learning techniques to build predictive analytics, e.g., predictive maintenance, load forecasting, into the Energy Intelligence Platform
- Drive customer discovery and competitive analysis to identify unmet needs across utility, neo clouds and hyperscalers to set product direction and prioritize the roadmap
- Influence business strategy and product positioning by via data backed customer insights for executive leadership
- Work directly with customers to drive alignment between software development and field performance needs, e.g., availability, latency, MTTR
- Track and report KPIs for system performance, platform stability, and user experience
- Be a subject matter expert, staying abreast of technical and business developments in distributed and grid connected asset controls and interfaces
Qualifications:
To succeed in this role, you’ll need technical fluency, systems thinking, and hands on product launch experience:
- 5+ years in a product function for industrial or energy software, control systems or software orchestrating distributed assets. Must have shipped major products or releases and have significant individual ownership
- Experience with one or more of: EMS, SCADA, DERMS, or grid edge control systems
- Familiarity with one or more industrial communication protocols, e.g., Modbus RTU TCP, DNP3, OPC UA, CAN, GOOSE, IEEE 2030.5
- Experience building with hardware software teams in complex, high reliability markets
- Excellent communication skills, able to bridge technical, customer, and business contexts
- Proficient user of AI agents, Jira, Git, Figma or equivalent, experience producing PRDs, integration guides, and release documentation
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or a related field
Bonus Qualifications:
- Understanding of deterministic control loops, fault tolerant design, and embedded cloud control handoffs, experience with Linux based edge devices, gateways, or PLCs
- Integration experience with inverters, BESS, relays, metering, site controller architectures, and local supervisory logic for microgrid or distributed energy control
- Experience defining requirements and managing integration with customer side EMS, SCADA, and building or battery management systems, exposure to IEC 61850, IEEE 2030.5, DNP3, or similar
- Knowledge of telemetry data structures, e.g., time series, events, alarms, ability to specify logging, diagnostics, and performance KPIs for distributed assets
- Hands on experience securing edge devices in the field, OTA update pipelines, software signing, OT IT segmentation, and remote fleet monitoring across distributed assets
- Experience applying machine learning to operational technology contexts, e.g., predictive maintenance, anomaly detection, load forecasting, or optimization of distributed energy assets
We'd love to learn more about you if you thrive in a fast paced environment tackling one of the most important infrastructure challenges of our time. Let's go.
Please note: This role is on site 5 days a week at our San Francisco or Reno hub. We believe the best product decisions happen next to the systems you’re shipping.
Pay Disclosure & Benefits
Compensation will be determined based on experience, location, and other factors permitted by law.
The benefits outlined below apply exclusively to employees located in the United States.
- Competitive Salary + Incentive Stock Options
- Medical, vision, and dental benefits for employees and their dependents, effective from the start of hire
- Company paid Basic Life, AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance
- 401k retirement savings plan through Empower
- Employees receive paid time off (PTO), paid sick days, and paid company holidays
- Commuter Benefits
- 100% paid maternal leave (12 weeks) and paternal leave (6 weeks)
Singapore-based employees receive benefits in accordance with local government provisions.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Amperesand is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information or characteristics, physical or mental disability, marital/domestic partner status, age, military/veteran status, medical condition, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Amperesand is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. Please let your recruiter know if you need an accommodation at any point during the interview process.
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