Virtual Environment Developer

Are you looking for a career-defining challenge working on building toolkits that enable the building of autonomous systems?

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 real-world solutions.

We are looking for team members who have a passion for technology and want to work on cutting-edge problems with real-world solutions. Our culture is built on bringing together the most talented engineers, thinkers, and creatives—backed by the world’s leading investors—working together to make the future 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.

Virtual Environment Developer empowers you to create dynamic, immersive spaces that solve real-world challenges, from energy optimization to sustainable design in built environments. This role combines innovative technology with practical applications, positioning you as a pioneer in shaping smarter, more efficient systems that impact industries and everyday life.

As a Virtual Environment Developer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of autonomous systems by developing the Virtual World µService and Test frameworks. These frameworks are critical to validating the Hive Controller’s ability to make intelligent, reliable control decisions across a wide range of scenarios. By simulating weather patterns, occupant behaviors, and executing control decisions within a virtual simulation of a building, you will drive advancements in predictive modeling and decision-making, redefining what is possible in building automation.

What you’ll do

Designing virtual world test environment: Create a functional, and scalable test bed using Quantum Digital Twins and PassiveLogic’s simulators to test and validate control pathfinder in various test scenarios.

Designing hardware-in-the-loop test environment: Extend the virtual world test bed to interact with in-house test lab to validate control pathfinder against actual configurable system.

Integration: Create and integrate a variety of microservices sensors and control data from PassiveLogic’s deployed Hive Controller systems, that are representative of an actual physical instance.

User interaction: Infrastructure to generate test matrix of various scenarios including different weather conditions, various occupant behavior patterns, different buildings and systems. Develop an Infrastructure to generate cases for fuzz testing, add sensor noise, and model disturbances.

Test database: interaction with relational database for storing test scenarios and test data.

Collaboration: Conduct an in-depth analysis of the collected data, identifying patterns, insights, and anomalies that can influence the system's performance. Collaborate with the AI, Formal Methods, and Digital Twins team to provide refinement ideas to improve the performance of the HiveController and the overall models used in deployed buildings.

Presentation of Findings: Communicate complex data findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. This includes creating visualizations, reports, and presentations.

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:
  • MS/PhD in Data Science, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, or equivalent experience.
  • Solid understanding of the fundamentals of building physics, heat transfer, and HVAC systems
  • Strong statistical analysis skills and experience with machine-learning techniques
  • Proficiency in programming languages (Python, C++, Swift, Rust, etc) and design patterns.
• Exceptional communication skills: Clearly articulating complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences. Actively listening to feedback and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
• Organized and strategic: Effectively planning and prioritizing their tasks to align with project objectives, aligning with PM to meet goals.
• Collaborative mindset: Enjoy working across teams, extraordinary teammate with excellent interpersonal skills.
• 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, rolling-up.

You should have

• Understanding of the Built Environment or Cyber-Physical Systems: Demonstrates a solid grasp of the interaction between physical infrastructures and digital technologies, enabling the creation of intelligent and adaptive systems.
• Experience with Validation Frameworks for Autonomous Systems: Proven expertise in designing and implementing frameworks that ensure the reliability, accuracy, and performance of autonomous systems in diverse operational scenarios.
• Experience in Reasoning and Inferencing: Skilled in applying advanced reasoning and inferencing techniques to support decision-making processes and enhance system intelligence.
• Experience with Relational Databases: Proficient in managing and utilizing relational databases such as PostgreSQL and MySQL to store, organize, and analyze data efficiently.
• Experience with: Concurrency, threads, processes, Lib-dispatch/GCD
• Familiarity with Building Energy Modeling Software: Knowledgeable in tools like EnergyPlus, Modelica, and IES, leveraging them to simulate and optimize building energy performance and sustainability.

It’s helpful to have

• Experience in deploying autonomous systems
• Experience with Swift programming language

We know some candidates 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.