Job Specifications
Technology Lead, Amplify
Department Overview
The PG&E Innovation Accelerator leverages customer-centric start-up methodologies to ideate, incubate, and accelerate new internal initiatives to market that are optimized for impact.
Amplify is an Innovation Accelerator venture in the accelerate stage, dedicated to helping customers go electric. We're creating a new kind of customer experience—building digital products, services, and partnerships that make the transition simpler, faster, and more affordable by reducing friction across vehicle selection, incentives, installation, and grid connection.
The Amplify venture lives within PG&E’s Electrification and Decarbonization department, which exists to create an electrified California where customers choose efficient and decarbonized buildings and transportation.
Position Summary
The Technology Lead will play a key role in evolving Amplify from manual pilot to scaled platform by building automations that enable the team to operate efficiently today while collaborating with PG&E IT to implement the automated platform for tomorrow.
In the near term, you'll rapidly prototype and implement automations using low-code and no-code tools to support early testing with customers of a concierge-guided experience helping customers through EV selection, home assessment, and charger installation. You'll build workflows, integrations, and AI-enhanced tools that allow the Amplify team to deliver personalized support at pilot scale.
As the product demonstrates value and readiness to scale, you'll increasingly work closely with PG&E IT and external development vendors as a technical advisor and bridge, helping translate product requirements and operational learnings into specifications for an automated customer-facing platform that can serve customers across PG&E's service area.
As part of the core Amplify venture team, you'll work in a fast-paced, startup-like environment within PG&E, moving quickly from idea to implementation while building toward enterprise scale.
This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work location based on business need. The assigned work location will be the Oakland General Office. The role reports to the Amplify General Manager.
Job Responsibilities
Build Amplify
Rapidly build and iterate on automations using low-code and no-code platforms to support manual pilot operations and quickly prototype solutions
Implement AI-enhanced tools, including an EV selection agent and online home assessment
Create workflows and integrations that connect pilot program components (application forms, scheduling, data tracking, communication)
Understand customer needs and rapidly test solutions through working closely with Amplify Product Manager
Develop and execute on IT roadmap to transition Amplify from pilot stage to scaled product
Serve as technical advisor during platform build-out, helping clarify functionality and bridge startup and enterprise approaches to allow for both "safe sandbox” pilot build-out and scaled product with all required internal approvals
Scale platform implementation through collaboration with PG&E IT and external development vendors to translate product requirements and operational insights into technical specifications
Qualifications
Minimum
Bachelor of Science or equivalent training in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field
3+ years of software development or technical implementation experience
Experience building systems that use AI, including agents or similar AI-powered tools
Experience rapidly prototyping and building with modern tools (low-code/no-code platforms, APIs, automation tools)
Understanding of web technologies and how systems connect
Scrappy, pragmatic problem-solver who finds creative ways to deliver quickly, even in ambiguous or uncertain situations
Demonstrated experience as a strong collaborator who can work with startup teams, enterprise IT organizations, and external development vendors to do accomplish something new and unproven
Interest in climate tech, clean energy, or customer experience
Highly Desired
Experience bridging pilot programs and enterprise systems
Innovation lab experience
Deep experience building with Large Language Models, agentic AI, or advanced AI/ML systems
Background working with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Cursor, Copilot)
Familiarity with enterprise IT environments, processes, and requirements
Product management experience (e.g. talking with customers, writing user stories)
Understanding of EV adoption or home electrification
Please note: the successful candidate will be hired as a contractor (W-2 via vendor), with the possibility of conversion to full-time employee with benefits in the future.
PG&E is providing the hourly range that can reasonably be expected for this position at the time of the job posting: $85.00-$165.50.
About the Company
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, incorporated in California in 1905, is one of the largest combination natural gas and electric utilities in the United States. Based in San Francisco, the company is a subsidiary of PG&E Corporation. There are approximately 20,000 employees who carry out Pacific Gas and Electric Company's primary business--the transmission and delivery of energy. The company provides natural gas and electric service to approximately 15 million people throughout a 70,000-square-mile service area in northern a...
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