Lead System Architect Industrial IoT Energy Systems
1st Avenue PowerLos Angeles, California
Full Time
Posted March 5, 2026
$200k - $260k
Solar Energy
Remote
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Job Description
The role involves designing and leading the development of a complex, distributed energy management platform that integrates industrial hardware and cloud-based analytics, ensuring reliability, security, and real-time control for large-scale solar power systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and own the overall system architecture blueprint from device connectivity to user interfaces.
- Make architectural trade-off decisions to optimize latency, reliability, security, and cost between Edge and Cloud processing.
- Translate industrial hardware constraints into software requirements and mentor engineering teams across the stack.
- Evaluate and select technologies, frameworks, and vendors for edge runtimes and cloud services.
- Design the system for high availability, disaster recovery, and resilience under unreliable network conditions.
- Establish and oversee security protocols including device identity management, mutual TLS, and secure OTA updates.
Requirements
- 10 years of software engineering experience, with at least 5 years in a dedicated System Architect or Principal Engineer role managing complex, distributed systems.
- Demonstrable experience designing hyperscale solutions using the AWS serverless stack including Lambda, DynamoDB, Kinesis, and API Gateway.
- Strong understanding of the unique constraints of industrial environments, including network connectivity issues and latency considerations.
- Experience with AWS IoT Core and related services such as Greengrass, Device Shadows, and IoT Rules Engine.
- Solid understanding of networking fundamentals including TCP/IP, MQTT, WebSockets, firewalls, and cellular connectivity.
- Experience designing data pipelines for both real-time telemetry and historical data lake paths.
- Ability to make critical architectural trade-off decisions regarding processing at the Edge versus the Cloud to ensure low-latency control loops and bandwidth efficiency.
- Define data models and communication standards between disparate systems, such as defining JSON schema that translates a Modbus register into an AWS IoT Shadow state.
- Architect the system for high availability and disaster recovery, including designing for unreliable network conditions, local safety capabilities, robust buffering, store-and-forward mechanisms, and state reconciliation strategies to ensure zero data loss during outages.
- Define and oversee the implementation of the security posture for the entire stack based on a Zero Trust model, including device identity management with X.509 certificates, mutual TLS authentication, and secure over-the-air update mechanisms for edge infrastructure.
Benefits & Perks
Competitive compensation range of $200,000 to $260,000
Remote work flexibility with 5-15% travel to sites as needed
Health insurance with 100% coverage of employee premiums under a Gold-level PPO plan
Dental and vision insurance with 50% of employee premiums covered
Retirement plan (401(k)) with a 6% employer match
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