Hiring: Member of Technical Staff - Backend/Distributed Systems Company: Emerald AI Location: Washington DC-Baltimore Area Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 14:56:27 Target Skills & Keywords : Systems Design About the job Required Skills: •We’re hiring a Distributed Systems / Backend Engineer to serve as a key contributor on the core backend platform powering Emerald AI. This is a high-impact role: you will drive architectural decisions, introduce best practices, build foundational infrastructure, and help guide the evolution of our real-time energy intelligence engine. •You’ll work across ingestion, compute, storage, and system orchestration—designing components that must be highly reliable, resilient, and capable of operating at scale. As one of the early engineering hires, you’ll have a major influence on our stack, roadmap, and long-term technical direction. •We hire across levels, from early-career to staff+, with expectations and scope aligned to your ability to drive outcomes. •Designing and scaling systems that interact with real-world energy infrastructure •Building high-performance services and APIs that power core product workflows •Tackling hard problems in reliability, data modeling, and system design •Shipping end-to-end features—from idea to production •Improving system observability, performance, and fault tolerance Qualifications: •Interest in grid systems, energy orchestration, and applying AI to real-world infrastructure •Comfort operating in ambiguous environments and turning open-ended problems into production systems •Strong system design skills, including tradeoffs across latency, consistency, and scalability •Demonstrated capacity to work across the stack when needed to unblock progress Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!