Senior Application Engineer

Are you driven by curiosity? Do you have a passion for developing groundbreaking technologies that drive sustainable building systems? Are you excited by the opportunity to shape solutions that transform the way we think about energy efficiency and automation? PassiveLogic is seeking a Senior Application Engineer to join our dynamic team!

About PassiveLogic®

PassiveLogic is the first fully autonomous platform for buildings. We’ve reinvented the fundamental principles of automation to democratize technology, optimize buildings, and reduce the world’s carbon footprint. We are a team of technologists, engineers, and creatives dedicated to making a sustainable impact through deployable solutions.

We are looking for team members who have a passion for technology and who want to work on cutting-edge problems with real-world applications. Our culture is built on empowering people through generative autonomy to solve the world’s largest climate challenges. Backed by the world’s leading investors, our team works daily to make the future of smart cities a reality.

About the Role

This is a career-defining opportunity to play a crucial role in a hyper-scale AI company that is transforming the future of autonomous systems, energy, and the built environment.

As our Senior Application Engineer, you’ll play a pivotal role in building an ecosystem of local-first web applications that enable PassiveLogic’s autonomous systems platform. Our software applications enable users to collaboratively create physics-based models of the components from which autonomous systems are comprised, simulate the buildings in which autonomous systems will run, and generatively design autonomous systems with a human-centered interface to interact with their systems — no more black box AI.

At its core, our ecosystem is powered by Quantum, a schema for describing autonomous system Digital Twins, and DataSync, a real-time protocol for graph-based client/server data synchronization.

We use empathetic Human-Computer-Interface (HCI) principles in our design, and TypeScript, WebGL, SVG, and reactive dataflow in our code. As part of our long-term vision, we are developing constraint-based layout engines, AI-enabled generative design capabilities, and exploring the use of Swift compiled to WebAssembly to improve the usability of our code across many platforms.

What you’ll do

Design and Implement Front End Architecture: Lead the design and implementation of front end architecture to support native-quality web applications for multi-platform deployment.

Contribute Across Teams: Collaborate cross-functionally to build our technology and celebrate our shared successes. Be impact-driven, seek to be a good employee, neighbor, and global citizen.

Optimize Systems-level Performance: Be a systems-level thinker who researches before they act and values sound processes and broad thinking.

Prioritize Execution, Stability, and Velocity: Focus on delivering short-term wins while maintaining a long-term vision within our shared architecture. Take pride in the impact of our products and in delivering a "wow" customer experience.

Nerd Out About Your Craft: Dive deep into the details and continuously refine your expertise.

What you’ll bring

If your experience does not meet all our posted requirements below, we’d still love to hear from you. We are looking for practitioners who are passionate about understanding people, committed to lifelong learning, and driven by the love of what they do. If that’s you, please apply!

You must have

• Proven experience:
• 5+ years in software engineering, computer science, front-end web-application development, or a related field.
• Strong JavaScript, TypeScript, or Swift experience
• Strong algorithms, data structures, and coding background
• Experience with user interface frameworks (e.g. Angular, React, Vue, Swift UI etc.)
• Extraordinary teammate with excellent interpersonal skills
• Exceptional communication skills: Ability to collaborate across teams, clearly communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders, and document solutions effectively.
• Organized and strategic: Experience in managing complex engineering projects, including timelines, scope, and deliverables, with attention to detail.
• Collaborative mindset: Use your skillset to work flexibly across multiple teams and application.
• Adaptability: Comfortable in a fast-paced startup environment, eager to learn, iterate, and innovate.
• Problem solving: You own this role. When issues arise, be the empowered force that solves them, driving solutions to completion.
  

You should have

• Experience with:
• Developing and using design symptoms
• Experience with the architectural patterns found in large-scale web applications, including well-designed APIs, high-volume data pipelines, and efficient algorithms.
  

It’s helpful to have

• SVG programming familiarity: Experience with technologies like SVG.js and Snap.js.
• 3D programming or computer graphics familiarity: Background in using frameworks such as WebGL, WebGPU, and Three.js.
• Real-time data analysis tools implementation: Experience implementing tools for analyzing and exploring large real-time data sets.
• Experience utilizing multiple programming paradigms: Proficiency in various programming paradigms such as object-oriented, functional, data-driven, protocol-oriented, and/or reactive programming.
• Exposure to:
• Distributed data tools, frameworks, and methodologies such as OT, CRDT, RealmDB, and AWS AppSync.
• WebAssembly

We know there are candidates who might not fit everything we’ve described above, or who might have experience and skills we haven’t considered. PassiveLogic can sometimes be flexible enough to shift responsibilities to the right person, or otherwise identify open or upcoming roles that may better fit your professional background. Even if you don’t meet all the requirements above, we still want to hear from you.

Compensation, Benefits & Perks:

• Competitive compensation
• Generous equity share package
• Medical, dental and vision coverage
• Disability and life Insurance options
• Flex PTO
• Team-building events
• Free catered lunch in the office Monday — Friday
• Free ski pass (We are at the base of Big Cottonwood Canyon)
• Free National Park pass

When applying, include:

• A cover letter telling us why you're the perfect candidate for PassiveLogic
• A resume
• Extra mile — include a description of a project (of any type) you personally created, devised, built, managed, organized, or designed that was of your own self-initiative

Diversity and inclusion

Diversity, inclusion, and belonging is woven into our values and everything we do. We welcome all—come as you are and bring your whole self. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity every day by maintaining a safe and inclusive environment for our employees at every stage of their careers.

Department

Software Engineering

Role

User Software

Locations

Salt Lake City