About Build
Build is creating the agentic AI stack for the built world. We help institutional real estate teams automate complex development and acquisitions workflows so important projects can move from concept to completion faster, with less cost, delay, and operational drag.
About the role
This role is for someone who has spent years inside the grid—not studying it, but operating it. You will review, validate, and steer AI-generated work across live client engagements, helping define what good judgment looks like in practice. You'll be part of a small, high-output team doing work that actually moves the needle on how the world's most important infrastructure gets built.
What you'll do
- Review and validate AI-generated energy systems work — contingency assessments, power flow studies, interconnection analysis, capacity planning
- Apply practitioner judgment to real client problems: what's physically feasible, what the trade-offs are, and where the AI got it wrong
- Collaborate with Build's engineering and domain teams to improve workflow accuracy and output quality over time
- Produce operational analyses, planning scenarios, and written assessments where needed
- Help articulate what "correct" looks like — the assumptions, constraints, and engineering realities that aren't in any textbook
Domain focus
Build's grid and energy engagements span the full stack of what institutional infrastructure clients need:
- Grid planning and optimization — OPF, N-1/N-2 contingency screening, load flow studies, renewable integration
- Power availability and interconnection — site-level power assessment, grid connection feasibility, capacity analysis
- Data and process workflows — historian data, compliance documentation, audit trail interpretation
- Regulatory and standards environments — NERC CIP, TSO/ISO operating frameworks, utility compliance
Tools our clients and workflows operate around include PSS/E, PowerWorld, MATPOWER, and OpenDSS. You don't need to know all of them — but you should be comfortable with the environments they represent.
What we're looking for
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in transmission planning, power systems engineering, or utility systems — at a TSO, ISO, or large utility
- The ability to explain why a decision is correct, not just produce it — trade-offs, constraints, physical limits
- Clear, direct written communication. Our workflows are asynchronous and our clients move fast.
- Comfort working with AI-generated outputs and improving them — not just reviewing from a distance
- Preference for flexible, contract-based engagements over traditional employment