Principal Product Engineer, Cloud Platform

GPU racks pull 120–140 kW today. By 2027, that number hits 600 kW to 1 MW per rack. The entire AI buildout — hundreds of billions in capex — is being erected on a grid that was not designed for it. Design margins have compressed from 30% to 10–15%. The monitoring systems built for the last generation of infrastructure poll at one-second intervals. GPU workloads ramp in eight milliseconds.

AI is accelerating faster than the infrastructure beneath it can be understood.

The incumbent vendors — Schneider, Eaton, Vertiv — were built for a world where loads were predictable and slow. They are not broken. They are mismatched to what AI infrastructure demands. Verdigris captures continuous waveforms at 8 kHz. That is not a software improvement on existing monitoring data. It is a different measurement entirely — one that makes visible what no other system can see: hidden degradation, safe operating headroom, and the real-time electrical behavior of infrastructure running at the edge of its design limits.

We are not a monitoring solution. We are the electrical intelligence layer — the validation layer that sits between the physical environment and the autonomous control systems the industry is building toward. Solving this matters beyond the business case. Carbon-free AI, stranded capacity recovery, and the long-term reliability of the compute layer the world is betting on all depend on getting electrical intelligence right at the physical layer.

The company

Thirty people. Lean by design. We have raised serious capital, refocused the company around the most consequential problem in AI infrastructure, and come out the other side with real customers, real revenue, and hardware that has been running in colocation and owned data center facilities for more than a decade. The cloud platform processes billions of 8 kHz waveform readings and turns them into validated operating limits that operators use daily.

This unique position—built on our high-fidelity 8 kHz metering—converts the strain on electrical infrastructure into a definitive roadmap for solving the AI industry's most critical power bottleneck and driving the sector's next wave of technological improvement.

Today that means reliability and early warning. Tomorrow it means capacity optimization and machine-facing orchestration APIs that GPU schedulers consume directly.

The role

We are hiring a Principal Product Engineer to own the engineering side of the roadmap for the cloud platform — the system that makes all three product pillars work: Observability, Intelligence, and Orchestration.

You report to the cofounder/CTO and partner with Product as a peer on what we build, in what order, and with what architecture. This is a senior individual-contributor, player-coach role: no direct reports. You set the technical bar through what you ship and how you review, not through formal management. You will ship code in production, debug the hardest reliability and performance problems, write the RFCs others reference, and anchor the engineering operating cadence as a contributor. If you have not been in a codebase recently, this is not the right fit.

We are building toward best-in-class industry standards: clear ownership, a culture of high craft, and senior engineering that accelerates the team through example rather than administration. The candidate we want believes in this velocity.

One more thing: a big part of how we operate is through deliberate, opinionated use of agentic coding tools. The team is actively migrating towards an AI-native culture, learning how to adopt practices that scale. You will be instrumental in defining the next standard for AI-native development here, and you will hold the bar through your own work and through design and code reviews.

The situation

The platform works. Customers depend on it. The 8 kHz ingestion pipeline is real and running in production.

The platform is at a strategic inflection point: we must mature the architecture and organizational structure to support the scale and velocity of our next-generation product roadmap. We need someone who can take ownership of the platform, drive engineering clarity across the surface, and raise the quality bar — while also building toward future application layers that do not exist yet.