Brightcore Energy | Senior Embedded Software/Hardware Engineer
Location: Brooklyn, NY (Hybrid, 3 days/week onsite) Employment Type: Full-time Compensation: $140k–$170k+ base (flexible for the right experience), plus annual bonus
About the Role
Brightcore Energy designs, builds, and operates clean energy systems, including geothermal, solar, and building energy efficiency, for commercial and institutional buildings. A growing share of our work is managing geothermal cooling assets at data centers.
We are hiring an owner for Brightcore EDGE, an on-prem industrial PC that runs our control and optimization algorithms directly at customer sites, including data center facilities where real-time energy management is mission-critical.
This is a high-ownership, "spec-it-and-build-it" role. You will be responsible for buying hardware and shipping working prototypes without a lot of process overhead. You will report directly to the VP of Innovation.
Responsibilities
- Select and harden the industrial PC and Linux platform.
- Build the imaging, provisioning, and fleet-update process.
- Integrate with building management systems over BACnet and Modbus (Schneider Electric, Johnson Controls, Honeywell, Siemens).
- Build the local time-series data logging and telemetry pipeline.
- Implement OS hardening, disk encryption, and network segmentation to satisfy OT security reviews at high-security sites.
Requirements
- 5–8+ years of experience in embedded systems, industrial controls, or edge/IoT.
- Strong proficiency in Linux and Python and/or C/C++.
- Background in BACnet/Modbus protocols.