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Boston, MA
2026-09-05
Powertown
English
North America
Forward Deployed Engineer, Intern
Role Description
**What you'll do**
* Make live energy data understandable
* Build interfaces for status, alarms, events, and telemetry
* Learn how infrastructure software behaves when the physical world is involved
* Own sub-modules inside the codebase and use your immense talent to string together a living execution engine that becomes the heartbeat of Powertown
* Absorb company intel from the team, trust your intuition, predict blockers in the future, and build software that resonates with you
**Preferred majors**
Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Energy Systems, Robotics, Mathematics, Physics, or a similar technical field.
**Ideal candidate**
* You are a technical student who likes real systems more than toy apps
* You are careful, curious, and hard to overwhelm. You like the idea that a bug might not just break a button, but misrepresent what is happening in a live asset
* This is a high-agency, high-ownership role. Open to the most artistic thinkers with a knack for identifying when things may break
**Preferred qualifications**
* Evidence of initiative through projects, research, internships, competitions, open-source work, robotics, hardware/software projects, simulations, or self-directed technical building
* Experience working with agents for live data, sensors, energy systems, IoT, visualization, or operational software
* Exceptional ability exemplified through personal projects
Compensation Range: $190K - $200K