Staff Software Engineer, Data/MLOps

We’re supercharging the clean economy:

Crux is the capital markets platform changing the way clean energy and manufacturing projects are financed in the U.S. Crux’s platform, market intelligence, and expert team help developers and manufacturers unlock financing through all stages of project development and operation. 

Our team of 40+ is composed of experts in energy, tax, finance, government, and technology. We have raised $77 million in capital from some of the best investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, Lowercarbon Capital, New System Ventures, Overture, Ardent Venture Partners, QED, Canapi, and others. These funds are joined by strategic investors including Pattern Energy, Clearway Energy, EDF Renewables, Intersect Power, LS Power, Orsted, Hartree Partners, Liberty Mutual Strategic Ventures, MassMutual Ventures, and OMERS Ventures.

An inflection point in American energy and manufacturing:

Energy demand is growing for the first time in 20 years, driven by surging manufacturing, transportation, electrification, and data centers. Simultaneously, hundreds of billions of dollars are being invested in domestic supply chains for critical minerals and components. Developers and manufacturers will require trillions of dollars in capital to meet growing needs.

Unfortunately, the capital markets supporting this transformation remain opaque, fragmented, and complex. At Crux, we recognized the missing infrastructure: a central capital markets platform designed specifically for the next century of American energy and industry. By connecting counterparties, providing market intelligence, and streamlining transactions, we unlock faster decision making, lower cost of capital, and accelerated investment.

About The Role & Team

The traditional process for transacting tax credits is manual & onerous. We’ve built a product that solves parts of that problem but now need to expand its breadth & depth in a rigorous, analytical way. As we begin to build out new ML- and AI-powered features and products that make the experience of clean economy financing more efficient and intelligent for our customers, we’re excited to add our first data/MLOps engineer to help us with this! Finding the right technical and cultural alignment for this role is our top priority, and we are open to both senior and staff level candidates.

We are an experienced and highly collaborative group of ten engineers that has prioritized team diversity from the beginning. Our tech stack is composed of Typescript, React, SQL, built on top of Vercel and Supabase PaaS/BaaS. Our early AIOps stack includes Python, LangChain, and Trigger.dev. We value curiosity, open-mindedness, humility, and flexibility. Given the complexity of our domain, we look for folks who are deeply motivated to learn and do not hesitate to ask questions. We take psychological safety and inclusion seriously, and actively encourage sharing lots of ideas and opinions - it’s how we do our best work!

What you’ll do

• Collaborate with engineers and cross-functional partners to build features that support the renewable energy transition

• Help design our zero-to-one ML/AI-ops infrastructure, and use it to deploy data-centric analyses and product features that grow and deepen our and our customers’ understanding of the clean economy

• Write readable, well-structured code with an eye towards usability, performance, and scalability

• Write tests and documentation alongside your code for quality and maintainability

• Participate in engineering learning and coworking sessions, and act as a subject matter expert and mentor on building data-centric software to our entire engineering team

• Contribute to building our team culture and developing our technical best practices

Who you are

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including experience building and operating ML- or AI-based systems and features in production. Startup experience building end-to-end ML pipelines from the ground up is a strong plus

• B.S. in computer science, computer engineering, or related field

• Fluent in Python, or deep experience in a similar programming language and enthusiasm to learn our stack. Familiarity with web development in Typescript/React is a plus

• Authorized to work in the US or Canada

• You are a self-starter with a strong sense of ownership and desire to learn and grow

• You have deep “data empathy” and are curious to learn more about our domain and how to model it with data

• You enjoy building and cultivating a collaborative and inclusive team environment, and have experience working on fully remote teams

Compensation

• Annual base salary plus prorated company wide bonus between $20,000-$30,000 tied to revenue goals - we are flexible on title and leveling for the right candidate:

  • Senior $160,000-$200,000 USD

  • Staff $190,000-$250,000 USD

• Equity in the form of stock options

• Full health benefits, 20 days PTO, 10 company holidays

This is a fully remote role, with opportunities to co-work in SF, Seattle, DC, or NYC.

We believe that all people are capable of great things. We encourage you to apply even if you do not meet all of the requirements that are listed within this job description.

We provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by law.