<h3>About Spark</h3><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://sparkhq.ai/">Spark</a> is building an advanced AI research tool that helps energy developers build solar farms and battery plants.One of the biggest challenges in renewable energy is not construction — it’s navigating local regulations. We build AI agents that help energy developers find and understand critical information to develop and invest in solar farms.Industry leaders like Colliers Engineering &amp; Design, Standard Solar, and Cypress Creek Renewables use Spark to inform their investment decisions. Our customers’ energy pipelines will produce the equivalent of 60GW — enough to power tens of millions of households a year!If you're interested in learning how the energy infrastructure works and how you can help accelerate a historical energy transition with AI and software, we’d love to hear from you!<h3>The Team</h3>We’re funded by top investors, including <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://aigrant.com/">AI Grant</a> (Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross), the founders of Brex, Plaid, Helioscope (acq. Aurora Solar), and more (to be announced).You’ll be part of a small and ambitious team with engineering and product experience at Tesla, Google, Apple, WeaveGrid, Lucid, and Brex. As an early member of the team, you’ll work closely with the founders and shape the engineering culture.We are an in-person company in San Francisco, CA, and we are in the office 5 days a week.We use Typescript, NextJS, NodeJS, and Postgres.<h3>Responsibilities</h3><ul><li>Design and build our core APIs, AI infrastructure, and data pipeline that scrapes millions of data points every week</li><li>Own features end-to-end from working on an idea with the founders to designing, testing, shipping to prod, and getting feedback from customers</li><li>Architect and build cutting-edge AI systems like agentic web browsing, RAG, and data extraction</li><li>Write both frontend and backend code</li><li>Work closely with the founders to build the product roadmap</li><li>Talk to customers and understand how the energy industry works to inform better product decisions</li></ul><h3>You’re a great fit if…</h3>You have 3+ years of experienceYou love writing code but also care about having a significant impact. Being an early engineer means making the right trade-offs between writing perfect code and “good enough” for the situation.You believe that everything can be figured out. You can take a fuzzy goal, work independently toward a solution, and communicate effectively along the way.You want to be a founder one day. You’ll see what it's like to start a vertical AI company (in the energy space). If there’s anything about business or tech you’re interested in, we’ll teach you.<h3>You’re NOT a great fit if…</h3>You want to ship perfect code. Speed is one of our main advantages as a startup. We don’t have the luxury of spending time on perfection, and we always try to do more with less.You don’t care about the business side of things. Our technical decisions and business strategy go hand in hand. Understanding how they influence each other helps us build the right things.

Spark is an AI-powered platform streamlining the development of utility-scale and community solar projects. By automating complex workflows, Spark helps developers quickly navigate zoning rules, permitting regulations, project filings, and local sentiment—cutting weeks or months off early-stage development timelines.Built by a team with backgrounds at companies like Tesla, Apple, Google, Lucid, WeaveGrid, and Microsoft, Spark brings together climate expertise and state-of-the-art AI to tackle one of the biggest bottlenecks in clean energy deployment. We're serious about building an impactful company but we also have fun!We're looking for team members, particularly software engineers, who are mission-aligned and excited to build high-impact tools at the intersection of AI and energy. If you're energized by joining an early-stage startup and shipping real products fast, we'd love to talk.

Software Engineer, Full-stack

<h3>About Spark</h3><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://sparkhq.ai/">Spark</a> is building an advanced AI research tool that helps energy developers build solar farms and battery plants.One of the biggest challenges in renewable energy is not construction — it’s navigating local regulations. We build AI agents that help energy developers find and understand critical information to develop and invest in solar farms.Industry leaders like Colliers Engineering &amp; Design, Standard Solar, and Cypress Creek Renewables use Spark to inform their investment decisions. Our customers’ energy pipelines will produce the equivalent of 60GW — enough to power tens of millions of households a year!If you're interested in learning how the energy infrastructure works and how you can help accelerate a historical energy transition with AI and software, we’d love to hear from you!<h3>The Team</h3>We’re funded by top investors, including <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://aigrant.com/">AI Grant</a> (Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross), the founders of Brex, Plaid, Helioscope (acq. Aurora Solar), and more (to be announced).You’ll be part of a small and ambitious team with engineering and product experience at Tesla, Google, Apple, WeaveGrid, Lucid, and Brex. As an early member of the team, you’ll work closely with the founders and shape the engineering culture.We are an in-person company in San Francisco, CA, and we are in the office 5 days a week.We use Typescript, NextJS, NodeJS, and Postgres.<h3>Responsibilities</h3><ul><li>Design and build our core APIs, AI infrastructure, and data pipeline that scrapes millions of data points every week</li><li>Own features end-to-end from working on an idea with the founders to designing, testing, shipping to prod, and getting feedback from customers</li><li>Architect and build cutting-edge AI systems like agentic web browsing, RAG, and data extraction</li><li>Write both frontend and backend code</li><li>Work closely with the founders to build the product roadmap</li><li>Talk to customers and understand how the energy industry works to inform better product decisions</li></ul><h3>You’re a great fit if…</h3>You have 3+ years of experienceYou love writing code but also care about having a significant impact. Being an early engineer means making the right trade-offs between writing perfect code and “good enough” for the situation.You believe that everything can be figured out. You can take a fuzzy goal, work independently toward a solution, and communicate effectively along the way.You want to be a founder one day. You’ll see what it's like to start a vertical AI company (in the energy space). If there’s anything about business or tech you’re interested in, we’ll teach you.<h3>You’re NOT a great fit if…</h3>You want to ship perfect code. Speed is one of our main advantages as a startup. We don’t have the luxury of spending time on perfection, and we always try to do more with less.You don’t care about the business side of things. Our technical decisions and business strategy go hand in hand. Understanding how they influence each other helps us build the right things.

Software Engineer, Full-stack

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