VP of Software

About the role

TAR develops, builds, and operates fully islanded solar and storage campuses that deliver firm power to AI data centers, and runs them as a growing fleet. That business generates a wide software surface: energy and plant data, fleet telemetry, tooling for construction and operations, and the customer-facing systems that sit on top of them.

As VP of Software, you own all of it outside robotics, spanning the core platform, data, cloud infrastructure, and internal and customer-facing tooling. You take the software organization from where it stands today to what a fleet of GW-scale campuses demands, set the architecture the rest of the team builds on, and partner with the autonomy team on the interfaces to robotics without owning onboard autonomy. This is a leadership-team role for an engineer with 10+ years of experience, including 5+ years leading software organizations, based at our San Francisco engineering office.

Responsibilities

• Own the software strategy and technical roadmap for TAR's core platform, data, and business-critical systems, aligning engineering priorities with the company's energy-infrastructure mission and business goals.
• Build and lead the software engineering organization, hiring and developing individual contributors and engineering managers as scope grows, as a group distinct from the autonomy and robotics software team.
• Set system architecture across platform, data, cloud infrastructure, and internal and customer-facing tooling, keeping systems secure, reliable, and built to scale with the business.
• Drive the software development lifecycle end to end across all non-robotics systems, from roadmap and prioritization through release, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with the autonomy team on the interfaces between company platforms and robotics systems, including data pipelines, fleet telemetry, and reporting, without owning onboard autonomy software.
• Serve as the senior software voice on the leadership team, shaping investment decisions, roadmap trade-offs, and technology strategy alongside engineering, product, and executive leadership.
• Represent software to customers, partners, and investors when technical credibility in platform and data systems is what earns trust.
• Establish the engineering standards, security practices, and reliability processes the broader software organization builds on.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years in a leadership role at the Director, Head of, or VP level building and running a software organization.
• Direct, hands-on experience managing a software engineering team, including hiring, structuring, and developing both individual contributors and managers.
• Demonstrated ownership of platform, data, or infrastructure software for an operationally intensive business, taking systems from early development through production scale.
• Deep expertise in platform architecture, data systems, or cloud infrastructure, with the judgment to set technical direction others build on.
• Track record of building and scaling a software organization from zero to one while setting technical direction and engineering process.
• Strong communication skills, comfortable representing software and platform decisions to executive leadership, customers, and investors.

Nice to have

• Experience building software for energy, utilities, or other industrial infrastructure operators.
• Experience partnering with hardware or robotics teams on data integration, such as telemetry or fleet data pipelines.
• Background at a high-growth, venture-backed infrastructure or industrial technology company, such as Anduril, Palantir, or SpaceX.

Salary and Benefits

• Up to $15K relocation bonus
• Unlimited PTO
• Health, Dental, Vision insurance
• $1K monthly stipend for meals