Field Project Engineer

Summary

AGent Energy is building a software platform that uses AI to aggregate, orchestrate, and monetize distributed generation resources in energy markets. The Field Project Engineer will lead customer deployments from kickoff through go-live, coordinating contractors, customers, utilities, and internal teams while troubleshooting onsite hardware and connectivity issues. The role will also help improve deployment processes, contractor networks, and operational alerting.

Responsibilities

• Lead each deployment from kickoff to go-live: site survey, scope, contractor scheduling, installation, testing, and handoff
• Run several projects at once, keeping customers, contractors, utilities, and the AGent team aligned on dates and next steps
• Direct licensed contractors and review their work against our install standards before sign-off
• Validate every site before go-live: hardware connected, data flowing to our platform, and a successful test
• Work with utilities on meter and data access, and build relationships with key utility contacts
• Keep sites healthy after go-live: respond to hardware and connectivity alerts, coordinate repairs, and track issues to closure
• Troubleshoot and resolve hardware, wiring, and connectivity issues onsite, hands-on when needed
• Be the go-to technical contact for customers, and help our sales team scope sites and set realistic timelines
• Improve our kickoff checklist, install standards, and alert runbook, and feed field lessons back to our engineering team

Skills

• A track record of managing several field projects at the same time, coordinating customers, subcontractors, and internal teams to hit dates. This usually comes from 3–6 years in generator service, project engineering, commissioning, controls, or electrical contracting. Your title matters less than what you delivered
• Clear, proactive communication with customers, in person and in writing. You drive deliverables to done without being chased
• You live in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, or Wisconsin, have a valid driver's license, and can travel about one week a month (closer to two during each market's peak season)
• Comfortable doing hands-on technical work on-site, safely and within your training
• Working knowledge of commercial or industrial standby generators and automatic transfer switches (ATS): you can scope a site, read one-line and control wiring diagrams, and spot problems in a contractor's work
• Experience in demand response, virtual power plants, or energy services
• Experience with utility metering, meter data, or utility program staff
• Building-controls or telemetry experience (BAS, Modbus, cellular gateways)
• Relationships with electrical contractors or generator service providers in your region
• A degree is welcome but not required

Qualifications

Must Haves

• A track record of managing several field projects at the same time, coordinating customers, subcontractors, and internal teams to hit dates. This usually comes from 3–6 years in generator service, project engineering, commissioning, controls, or electrical contracting. Your title matters less than what you delivered
• Clear, proactive communication with customers, in person and in writing. You drive deliverables to done without being chased
• You live in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, or Wisconsin, have a valid driver's license, and can travel about one week a month (closer to two during each market's peak season)
• Comfortable doing hands-on technical work on-site, safely and within your training

Nice to Haves

• Working knowledge of commercial or industrial standby generators and automatic transfer switches (ATS): you can scope a site, read one-line and control wiring diagrams, and spot problems in a contractor's work
• Experience in demand response, virtual power plants, or energy services
• Experience with utility metering, meter data, or utility program staff
• Building-controls or telemetry experience (BAS, Modbus, cellular gateways)
• Relationships with electrical contractors or generator service providers in your region
• A degree is welcome but not required

Benefits

• Performance bonus
• Early-stage equity
• 100% employer-paid Health, Dental, and Vision premiums for full-time employees
• Two health plan options: traditional plan with FSA, or HDHP with company-funded HSA
• Basic Term Life Insurance + voluntary insurance options
• Flexible PTO
• Remote work from your home base, with travel to sites in your region.
• Generator and transfer-switch fundamentals, if they're new to you, through industry courses and hands-on bench time.
• How grid programs and wholesale markets work in MISO and PJM, and what they require from each site.
• AGent's platform, hardware kit, install standards, and alert workflow.
• Direct access to the founding team and real ownership of your work from day one