Product Manager, Fleet Telemetry, Controls & Optimization (Energy Intelligence)

Location: San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)

Base pay: $130,000–$200,000 per year

Company

hirify.global builds energy intelligence software that helps large energy consumers manage power through real-time control of energy assets and visibility into energy portfolios.

What you will do

• Own the real-time telemetry, controls, and model predictive optimization roadmap for distributed energy resources.
• Drive integrations with battery energy storage system manufacturers, meters, and other equipment, including telemetry ingestion, alarms, protocols, and multi-device site configurations.
• Define end-to-end dispatch requirements from the cloud optimizer to customer-site devices and design recovery behavior for failures.
• Partner with engineering and data science on optimization engine decisions, site-to-cloud architecture, and execution of optimized schedules.
• Write technical product requirements, test plans, and operational scenarios for engineers, operators, and customers.
• Lead deployment, general availability, rollback planning, results reporting, and reliability prioritization using dispatch health metrics.

Requirements

• 1–3 years of product management experience with grid-connected distributed energy resources software, embedded systems, or industrial control systems; alternatively, 2–4 years in a related technical role.
• Hands-on experience with software connected to physical hardware and its reliability, latency, and integration challenges.
• Working knowledge of device communication and messaging protocols such as Modbus, DNP3, or NATS, or experience integrating third-party hardware vendors.
• Technical foundation in distributed systems, edge computing, or IoT, including site-to-cloud architectures, buffering, retries, and failure modes.
• Comfort reading API specifications and telemetry data.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of optimization, forecasting, load smoothing, or low-voltage ride-through requirements.
• Experience with site commissioning, field operations, or NOC workflows.
• Familiarity with PJM and wholesale energy markets, including capacity markets, demand response, and flexible load commitments.
• Experience with AVEVA/OSIsoft PI, utility SCADA integrations, or market access provider APIs.
• Technical degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mechatronics, or a related field.

Culture & Benefits

• Empathy, humility, transparency, and constructive feedback are core working principles.
• Focus on renewable energy technology and software for the electricity system.
• Competitive compensation with an equity grant.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance plus a 401(k).
• Flexible hours, unlimited PTO, and a dihirify.global and inclusive working environment.