Join Vor Systems as our first dedicated AI hire to build the reasoning layer for utility-scale energy projects. You will automate complex regulatory and financial workflows, processing messy real-world data to accelerate clean energy deployment. This is a high-impact, founding role working directly with a proven leadership team from DoorDash, Meta, and Amazon.
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Applied AI Engineer at Vor Systems - Gigascale Capital-backed energy AI startup
Vor Systems is hiring its first dedicated Applied AI Engineer to build the reasoning layer for utility-scale energy projects. Backed by Gigascale Capital and led by founders from DoorDash and Meta, you'll design agentic workflows and document intelligence pipelines that automate the massive regulatory hurdles slowing down solar and wind deployment. If you have experience shipping production LLM systems and want to apply your craft to the energy transition, this founding role offers significant equity and the chance to shape a high-stakes AI architecture from the ground up in a fully remote US-based environment.
Overview
Role overview
Company
Vor Systems
Vor Systems - Gigascale Capital-backed energy AI startup
Responsibilities
What you will do
- Design and build core agentic workflows that plan, execute, and verify multi-step regulatory and financial analyses for energy infrastructure.
- Develop document intelligence pipelines on Modal to process multimodal inputs, including engineering schematics, site plans, and complex legal leases.
- Implement rigorous validation and evaluation frameworks to ensure LLM outputs meet the high correctness standards required for infrastructure data.
Candidate profile
Who this is a fit for
- Proven experience shipping production LLM-powered systems, with deep knowledge of retrieval, tool use, and context construction within larger platforms.
- Highly proficient in Python and comfortable working with async or GPU-backed systems such as Modal, vLLM, or custom agent orchestration frameworks.
- Exceptional at handling messy, real-world data from legal and financial domains while maintaining a strong focus on system reliability and observability.
What makes it remarkable
Why this role is remarkable
- Founding impact as the first dedicated AI engineer, shaping the architecture, technical direction, and engineering culture from day one.
- Work with an elite founding team with a track record of exits (Cozy, Greenify) and scaling experience at world-class tech companies like Amazon and Meta.
- Solve a critical climate bottleneck by using agentic AI to slash the years of paperwork currently delaying solar and wind project deployment.
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