Energy Engineer (contract)

Who We Are

Gravity is powering the decarbonization of industry by helping businesses and their supply chain partners manage and reduce their carbon footprint. Our energy and carbon management platform makes it easy and cost-effective for companies to measure their emissions, implement tangible reduction projects with vetted vendors, and reduce both energy and emissions. We align the incentives and actors in a disconnected landscape to make real emissions reduction happen. Founded by leaders from generational startups, physical operators, and star academics, Gravity is backed by top VCs. On the strength of a differentiated product, we have quickly grown to serve hundreds of customers across the world, from Fortune 500s to global energy majors to leading financial institutions.

The Opportunity

Gravity is seeking a pragmatic, versatile, and curious energy engineer for our Energy and Decarbonization team.

The energy and decarbonization team enables our customers to discover, evaluate, and support implementation of energy management and decarbonization projects across their operations.  We work closely with our climate strategy, product, and engineering teams to find ways to streamline the assessment and implementation of win-win projects for our customers. Given the financial and CapEx constraints of our customers, we focus on established technologies with available incentives that result in positive ROI for our customers. True industrial decarbonization is fundamental to our company ethos. We believe our platform and team can catalyze actions in our carbon management customer base, helping them discover unexplored opportunities, greenlight projects, find implementation partners, and track impact. 

As an early member of the team, you will play a transformational role in our company culture while laying the groundwork for Gravity's long-term decarbonization potential. You’ll have opportunities to develop and inform our company strategy on how we deploy our energy and decarbonization offering. This role will report to the VP / GM of Energy and Decarbonization Services. This role is remote-friendly with the option of hybrid/onsite work in our San Francisco office. 

Key responsibilities

1. Lead customer project discovery: Work alongside our customers to qualify energy and decarbonization projects through virtual audits or onsite assessments (if required). Support project evaluation with necessary energy calculations.  

2. Evaluate new technology offerings and vendor partners: Assess opportunities to recommend cost and carbon saving technologies to our customers that range from building energy efficiency, energy generation and storage, electrification, process improvements, and more. 

3. Support digital product offering: Strengthen product capabilities (alongside our engineering team) to streamline project discovery, qualification, partner selection, technology implementation, and tracking. 

Qualifications & Skills

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical, electrical, energy engineering, or related fields.

• 5+ years of experience in energy engineering, industrial energy efficiency, or decarbonization projects (ideally with some ESCO and/or DOE Industrial Assessment Center experience).

• Strong knowledge of energy efficiency technologies, renewable energy systems, and industrial electrification.

• Proficiency in energy modeling, onsite audits, and project ROI analysis; experience conducting ASHRAE Level 1-3 energy audits. 

• Experience working with customers, vendors, and internal teams to identify and implement energy solutions.

• Ability to travel for customer onsite energy assessments in the United States (likely once per month)

• Strong communication skills for presenting findings and collaborating with diverse stakeholders.

• Ability to contribute to software development by providing insights to streamline energy project implementation.

• Strategic thinker with a hands-on approach to achieving decarbonization goals.

• Comfort working with enterprise customers at all stages of their product journeys, and hunger to refine and deliver real value for important businesses and the climate.

• Impeccable project management skills; you keep the trains running when the schedules change.

• Autonomy; comfort delivering world-class results in a rapidly evolving environment.

• Ability to work cross-functionally and contribute to the overall development of a rapidly scaling company.

Nice to Have

• Knowledge of industrial customers' systems, emissions profiles, and/or business needs.

• Experience working at a startup or other fast-paced organization.

• Familiarity working with customers across private equity, Fortune 500 corporations, and mid-market manufacturers

• Willing and interested in hybrid work in our San Francisco office.

Thank you for your interest in Gravity!