Product Engineer (remote)

Axiom Cloud’s got a problem. Our customers include several major North American grocery chains, and we are on track to deploy our solution at our 100th customer site in the coming months. We’ll need to deliver thousands more soon afterward. 

It’s a great problem to have: we have tons of traction on a solidly validated product-market fit. The key is to deliver robust, enterprise-grade services as we rapidly scale up. We are therefore seeking a Product Engineer who will design, deploy, and test the next generation of our products and features in an effort to enable enterprise-scale capability and robustness.

What You’ll Do

As Axiom Cloud scales up, we remain deeply focused on developing high-quality product features that deliver value for our customers. You will report directly to the VP of Product and work together on the following strategic initiatives:

• Manage, design, test, and commission new software features to improve Axiom’s suite of product offerings.
• Diagnose, troubleshoot, and solve software/hardware challenges at the intersection of refrigeration, thermodynamics, energy and facilities management, and enterprise software.
• Perform data-driven analyses in Python to inform product feature and commissioning decisions.
• Generate and maintain best practices for Axiom’s Product Team.
• Manage communication with relevant stakeholders and drive incubation of new features.
• Build tools in Python to assist with development and testing.
• Leverage the skills of our unique and exceptional cross-functional staff to create innovative solutions to physical engineering challenges.
• Facilitate the creation and maintenance of product documentation.

Who You Are

(a general guide - we can bend these rules for an incredible candidate!)

Qualifications:

• B.S. in mechanical engineering, computer science, or similar discipline (and/or equivalent)
• 1+ years experience in a technical or product management role

• Refrigeration domain expertise OR direct HVAC/refrigeration field experience is a major plus, and/or a willingness to learn very quickly is required
• Interested in learning and developing a wide variety of software products, including dabbling in data analysis, and control using machine learning algorithms
• An enthusiastic self-starter who can work with minimal supervision and has tenacity to persevere through complex situations
• Passionate about technology innovation, product development, industrial IoT, and energy storage
• Aligned with Axiom Cloud’s guiding principles (you will be asked to provide examples of how you embody these principles during interviews)

Key skills/technologies:

• Able to clearly and effectively communicate with both internal stakeholders and customers.
• Basic proficiency of an engineering or software programming language (MATLAB, Python, or similar)
• Interdisciplinary engineering prowess, able to relate various fields of engineering

Nice to have skills/technologies:

• Proficiency with Python
• Linux, bash, git, or otherwise working in a terminal environment
• Exposure to data processing, modeling, and analytics (pandas, numpy, scipy, matplotlib, Grafana, Jupyter notebooks)
• Exposure to Databases: Timeseries (influxdb) object storage

What You Get

• Compensation in competitive base salary and equity
• “Honor system” PTO policy (no specified limits), flexible work schedule, flexible maternity/paternity leave
• Numerous social activities including team happy hours, barbecues, holiday parties, and an annual Halloween costume competition. (Note: we are currently generating a path forward for in-person activities.)

The Fine Print

• We’re a startup. The work is demanding, but we’ll make every effort to find an arrangement that works.
• Potential infrequent travel

Bonus Questions

Please answer the following questions. Please describe your thought process, assumptions, and how you came to the answer for which you arrived.

1. Assuming a perfectly insulated household with no HVAC, if a household refrigerator door is left open, does the room temperature of the household change, and if so, why?

2. Play this game for 15 minutes to help us better understand your strengths! https://play.scoutible.com/axiomcloud 

Axiom Cloud is an Equal Opportunity Employer and fully subscribes to the principles of Equal Employment Opportunity, to ensure that all applicants and employees are considered for hire, promotion, and job status without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital or familial status.