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Daylight is a market infrastructure company accelerating the commercialization of clean energy and industrial technologies. We help scale solutions in clean firm power, fuels, industrial heat, cement, and steel — sectors responsible for over one-third of global emissions.

We're building an AI-native platform that connects energy suppliers with hyperscalers and data center developers. Our tools automate diligence, structure deals, and help both sides move from evaluation to signed agreements faster.

Our first vertical and product, Daylight Power, focuses on clean, reliable power for data centers — the binding constraint today. The same platform will expand to other critical industrial inputs over time.

We believe the bottleneck in scaling energy infrastructure isn't the tech — it's capital flow, coordination, and contracting.

We’re hiring a founding AI engineer to build the core intelligence layer of our product.

This is a **true founding role**: you will take **high ownership** and exercise **real technical leadership**. You will shape Daylight’s technical direction, set the standards for how we build, and help lay the foundations for a world-class engineering organization.

You’ll work directly with the founder to automate structured contracting, extract insights from messy data and compliance documents, and support smarter purchasing decisions.

We’re seeking strong GenAI/agent systems experience (LLM orchestration, retrieval, tool use) and solid backend skills (Python/TypeScript, APIs, data pipelines, security). You translate procurement workflows into usable software, prototype quickly, and ship to production.

You work autonomously, prioritize ruthlessly, set clear milestones, and bring a calm, analytical, low-ego presence. Ready for co-founder-level responsibility and startup volatility.

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### What You’ll Do

- **Own technical strategy and execution:** Set architecture and technical plan (data model, AI systems, infra, security), write production code, and set the quality bar (tests, reviews, observability).

- **Build AI workflows:** Design and ship agentic + retrieval-powered workflows for contracting, diligence, and negotiation prep.

- **Build software features end-to-end:** Turn procurement and project finance workflows into usable product; be forward-deployed with users and iterate in real time.

- **Build data engineering + geospatial pipelines:** Ingest and enrich datasets (EPA GHGRP, EIA, NREL, parcels, utility filings) to map grid access, substations, transmission, and land availability.

- **Drive PMF through engineering:** Work closely with the founder to find PMF through user conversations and rapid iteration.

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### Who You Are

- You’ve built with LLMs, MCPs, vector DBs, and orchestration frameworks including LangChain or LlamaIndex

- You’ve shipped production-grade tools (not just demos)

- You care about usability and building things that matter

- You have strong backend skills and can take projects end-to-end

- You have experience working directly with users or customers to translate workflows into product

- You’re comfortable translating complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders

- You can learn new domains quickly (ie finance, contracts, energy technologies)

- You are adaptable and embrace ambiguity, pivoting as needed

- You have the experience to make good technical tradeoffs, set direction, and mentor others as the team grows

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### Bonus Points

- Power markets or carbon compliance knowledge

- AWS/GCP experience

- Unit-economics modeling

- Experience with contracts, procurement systems, or trading

- Enjoys team hikes and bike rides :)

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### What we’re looking for

We’re looking for someone who is deeply motivated by climate impact and energized by the challenge of building from zero to one. You might be a fit if you are:

- **Wildly driven and curious**, and excited to throw yourself into the fire of an early-stage startup.

- The kind of person who **keeps building and learning** outside of work because you genuinely cannot help it.

- Someone with **deep, niche intellectual obsessions**. You love going down rabbit holes until you understand the thing better than almost anyone else.

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### Values

You will thrive at Daylight if you:

- Exhibit **high agency** and take ownership end-to-end.

- Are **highly collaborative** and bring a low-ego, team-first approach.

- Bring **compassion and deep care** for the people you work with, and help create a supportive, high-trust community.

- Have real **comfort with ambiguity**, and can create structure where none exists.

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