Energy Markets & Grid Integration Lead

About Loadwise Data centers are becoming one of the fastest-growing electricity consumers in history, especially AI and HPC clusters. At the same time, power systems are increasingly driven by renewable generation, creating volatility in prices, carbon intensity, and grid conditions. Loadwise builds software that allows compute infrastructure to respond intelligently to these energy signals. We connect data center infrastructure directly to real-time energy markets and grid signals, enabling cost-optimal and carbon-aware operation of compute workloads and energy assets.

Our goal is simple: Make sure the infrastructure powering humanity's most powerful technology runs on humanity's best and cheapest energy source.

The Role

We are looking for an Energy Markets & Grid Integration Lead to sit at the intersection of energy market expertise and technical platform ownership.

This is a rare role. Very few people can navigate commercial energy markets, regulatory frameworks, and the technical plumbing of real-time signal integration at the same time. You will shape how Loadwise connects to, responds to, and ultimately influences the European energy market. Not just as a participant, but as a force that establishes data centers as a recognized, grid-flexible asset class.

As one of the first six people building Loadwise, you will work directly with the founding team across both dimensions. This is not a commercial-only role and not a technical-only role. In practice, this means owning two distinct motions:

• The Commercial Side: Identifying and structuring data center participation in demand response programs, building relationships with TSOs, DSOs, and aggregators, and designing the commercial frameworks that let customers capture the full value the platform creates.
• The Technical Side: Defining how market signals connect to the Loadwise platform and how energy assets respond in real time. This includes direct work on API connectivity requirements, signal logic, and real-time response calibration.

We value pragmatism: the focus in the early phase will be on enabling participation in existing demand response programs with broader regulatory engagement and asset class development following as the platform scales.

What the first six months look like

In your first six months, you have mapped and engaged in relevant European DR programs and identified which ones Loadwise customers participate in. You have built working relationships with TSOs or aggregators and have a clear picture of their technical and commercial requirements. The platform is receiving and correctly processing live market signal. The core of this role is well-defined. What happens beyond it is up to you.

What You’ll Work On: Energy Market & Grid Integration (Technical)

• Define how energy market signals (real-time signals, balancing market triggers, curtailment) connect to the Loadwise platform and translate into responses from energy assets and physical systems
• Own or co-own the API integrations with grid operators, aggregators, and flexibility platforms
• Calibrate real-time response logic together with the controls engineer: which signals trigger which actions, at what thresholds, under what constraints
• Define signal quality requirements and work with the integration engineer to ensure reliable, low-latency market signal ingestion

Demand Response & Flexibility Programs

• Identify, evaluate, and structure data center participation in European DR programs, such as balancing markets, flexibility aggregation schemes, and utility-driven load management programs
• Manage DR program enrollment processes: baseline methodologies, measurement and verification, reporting obligations
• Track market developments and new flexibility mechanisms relevant to large electricity consumers

Shaping the Asset Class

• Help establish data centers as a recognized flexibility asset in European energy markets
• Engage with regulators, TSOs, and industry bodies to influence how DR programs and flexibility frameworks are designed for HPC and AI infrastructure
• Represent Loadwise in technical and policy discussions with energy market counterparties

Customer Value & Commercial Frameworks

• Design and maintain ROI models and reporting frameworks used in customer conversations
• Support energy procurement discussions where Loadwise optimization can improve buying strategy

What We’re Looking For

You likely come from a background in energy markets, demand response, or grid flexibility.

Energy Markets & Demand Response

• Experience with demand response programs, energy flexibility markets, or large consumer energy management in a European context
• Working knowledge of relevant regulatory frameworks (e.g., EnWG or EU electricity market design)

Technical Depth

• Genuine comfort with the technical plumbing: API connectivity, signal structures, real-time response logic
• Ability to work with energy data, interval meter readings, and settlement reports
• Enough technical depth to contribute to integration architecture discussions with software engineers

Commercial & Analytical Skills

• Experience structuring or supporting energy-related commercial agreements
• Strong written and verbal communication in both German and English

Collaboration & Mindset

• Comfortable operating at the interface of commercial, technical, and regulatory domains simultaneously
• Genuine conviction that demand and grid flexibility can accelerate the energy transition
• Ability to manage multiple customer and partner relationships in a fast-moving environment

What We Offer

Competitive Base & Meaningful Equity

We expect you to act like an owner, which means we offer an above-market compensation package for a seed-stage company: a strong base salary and equity stake.

Relocation & Visa Support

We are building this in Berlin (Hybrid / On-site). If you are the right fit but not based here yet, we provide full visa sponsorship and relocation assistance to get you and your setup seamlessly moved.

Your Setup

Whether you need advanced LLMs to rapidly parse complex regulatory documents or draft API integration specs, we cover the licenses that keep you moving fast. Top-of-the-line hardware, no approval process.

High Autonomy, Zero Bureaucracy

You own both the commercial and technical dimensions of energy market integration end to end. You will have the freedom and responsibility to define how the platform connects to European energy markets from the ground up.

Our Process

We keep it lean. Three stages, no more than four weeks from first call to offer.