Building Systems Digital Twin Engineer

Do you want to use your technical expertise to shape the future of autonomous building systems? Are you excited about creating and validating digital twins that optimize real-world energy efficiency to solve the world’s largest climate challenges? PassiveLogic is looking for a Building Systems Digital Twin Engineer to collaborate across teams, troubleshoot complex challenges, and drive innovation in AI-powered building automation.

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 who 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.

As a Buildings System Digital Twin Engineer, you will be a meaningful part of a multidisciplinary team to deliver PassiveLogic’s ecosystem of technology to the hands of building managers across the world.

What you’ll do

Creation, test, and validation of digital twins: Generate and validate building site and HVAC system digital twins under the Quantum standard for all customer facing deployments.

Test and validation of the PassiveLogic technology ecosystem: Identify and log bugs throughout PassiveLogic’s technology ecosystem while synchronously working around those bugs to deliver the site model digital twin.

Cross-collaboration: Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams on a daily basis, including Customer Success, User Software, Quantum & Digital Twins, AI/Controls, Formal Methods, and more.

Energy optimization and accurate forecasting: Audit client buildings by ensuring the physics-based digital twin models are accurate and adaptable for real-time energy optimization and consumption forecasting.

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:
  • A background in physics, mathematics, engineering or a related field.
  • Building simulation experience, specifically working with simulation tools such as Energy Plus, eQUEST, TRNSYS
  • Knowledge of the fundamentals of building energy systems, HVAC, and building modeling.
  • A background in software development with proficient experience in the programming environment, including debugging.
• Exceptional communication skills: Extraordinary teammate skills with a collaborative, interpersonal communication style. Strong customer-facing skills with an ability to clearly communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Organized and strategic: Creative thinker and strong problem solver with meticulous attention to detail.
• Collaborative mindset: Experience working across teams to drive customer success. Strong self-motivation towards PassiveLogic’s mission to “empower people through generative autonomy to solve the world’s largest climate challenges.”
• 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

• Experience with building energy modeling and model predictive control.
• A strong understanding of energy-efficient building systems and sustainability initiatives.

It’s helpful to have

• Familiarity with AI-driven control platforms, smart building technology, or automation industry standards.
• Experience with digital twin creation and validation.

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.