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Phaidra is building the future of industrial automation.

The world today is filled with static, monolithic infrastructure. Factories, power plants, buildings, etc. operate the same they've operated for decades — because the controls programming is hard-coded. Thousands of lines of rules and heuristics that define how the machines interact with each other. The result of all this hard-coding is that facilities are frozen in time, unable to adapt to their environment while their performance slowly degrades.

Phaidra creates AI-powered control systems for the industrial sector, enabling industrial facilities to automatically learn and improve over time. Specifically:

We use reinforcement learning algorithms to provide this intelligence, converting raw sensor data into high-value actions and decisions.
We focus on industrial applications, which tend to be well-sensorized with measurable KPIs — perfect for reinforcement learning.
We enable domain experts (our users) to configure the AI control systems (i.e. agents) without writing code. They define what they want their AI agents to do, and we do it for them.

Our team has a track record of applying AI to some of the toughest problems. From achieving superhuman performance with DeepMind's AlphaGo, to reducing the energy required to cool Google's Data Centers by 40%, we deeply understand AI and how to apply it in production for massive impact.

Phaidra’s ability to achieve its mission is determined by our ability to work together — as defined by our core values: Transparency, Collaboration, Operational Excellence, Ownership, and Empathy. We seek individuals who embody these values, as they are instrumental in ensuring our team consistently delivers excellence and fosters an engaging and supportive culture.

Phaidra is based in the USA, but we are 100% remote with no physical office. We hire employees internationally with the help of our partner, OysterHR. Our team is currently located throughout the USA, Canada, UK, Italy, Sweden, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Singapore, Australia, and India.

Who You Are

Phaidra is looking for a driven Software Engineer to be a part of our growing Product Engineering team. In this role, you will lead a small team of frontend engineers who build our web-based self-serve product for industrial users. You are passionate about all things frontend and live to deliver exceptional user experience and developer experience alike. You demonstrate an exemplary level of ownership and collaboration - you are always willing to help people within and outside of your team and no problem is below you. You will lead the team from the front, establish best practices, and insist on the highest standards.

The Product Engineering team at Phaidra is responsible for building the tools and applications that our customers use to configure and monitor our AI-powered control systems.

We are seeking a team member located within one of the following areas: USA or Canada.

In the United States, we accept applicants located in the following states: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Florida, Indiana, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington.

In Canada, we accept applicants located in the following provinces: Ontario, British Columbia, and Alberta.

Responsibilities

The ideal candidate has solid prior experience in frontend development. At Phaidra, you will:

Lead a small team of frontend engineers, providing technical direction, guidance, and support to ensure successful project delivery.
Contribute to the design and implementation of our frontend applications.
Set the team standards and mentor junior frontend engineers. Participate regularly in code reviews with peers and help develop a strong engineering culture around you.
Collaborate with UI/UX designers and provide insights from a frontend engineering perspective.
Convert designs and wire frames into high-quality pixel-perfect UI.
Collaborate with Product Managers and Solution Architects to intimately understand user requirements.
Collaborate with Backend Engineers to incorporate APIs.
Collaborate with Infrastructure Engineers to define the best Frontend infrastructure solutions.
Maintain high level of code and architecture documentation.

Key Qualifications

5+ years of work experience.
Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
Experience leading frontend teams, setting technical standards, and driving delivery through effective mentorship and cross-functional collaboration.
Expertise in JavaScript, including modern features in recent ECMAScript editions.
Expertise in CSS3 (preferably with a pre-processing framework like SASS) & HTML5.
Expertise in React and TypeScript or a similar modern SPA framework
Experience using RESTful APIs.
Experience with modern frontend build tools and pipelines.
Knowledge of best-practices and architectural patterns for modern frontend applications.
Knowledge of User Experience and Visual Design concepts.
Knowledge of WCAG
Excellent communicator, written and verbal.
Share our company values: transparency, collaboration, operational excellence, ownership, and empathy.
Willingness to up-skill and offer ad-hoc support to our Backend team.

Bonus

Exposure to some industrial control systems and/or processes.
Prior experience building B2B enterprise SaaS products.
Experience with a Backend language (not necessarily Python or Go).
Experience with WebSocket APIs.

Our Stack

Frontend

React
TypeScript
React Testing Library
Playwright

Backend

Go
Python
PyTorch
REST & gRPC microservices
Pantsbuild, uv

Other

Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform & Kapitan
Gitlab CI, ArgoCD, Atlantis
GCP - GKE, PubSub, CloudSQL, BigTable, Postgres, etc.

Manager, Software Engineering (Frontend)

Americas

Remote

Senior

Phaidra