App Software & AI Engineer, Advisor

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Become an App Software & AI Engineer, Advisor at Southern California Edison (SCE) and play a critical role in designing and delivering enterprise‑grade, intelligent software solutions that power essential utility operations and clean‑energy initiatives. In this role, you’ll serve as a technical advisor and hands‑on engineer, leading the delivery of complex full‑stack applications while integrating advanced AI capabilities to solve high‑impact business problems.

As an App Software & AI Engineer, Advisor, you’ll influence technical direction across multiple products and initiatives—helping teams translate ambiguous business needs into scalable architectures, guiding design decisions, and ensuring solutions align with enterprise standards and long‑term strategy. You’ll drive the adoption of AI across the software development lifecycle, mentor engineers at different stages of their careers, and partner closely with product, architecture, and business leaders to deliver secure, reliable, and future‑ready solutions that reduce carbon emissions and support a cleaner energy future.

Responsibilities

• Build and deploy scalable enterprise applications using React, Angular, Node.js, Python, Express on Azure or GCP, mobile apps via iOS Swift and React Native, and low‑code/no‑code tools such as Power Platform.
• Design and implement AI‑integrated solutions using Azure OpenAI, Copilot Studio, and RAG architectures to build LLM‑powered agents, voice‑to‑text, image‑to‑text capabilities, and custom machine learning models.
• Provide technical guidance to the team, align with enterprise architecture, and drive consensus on technical decisions using software engineering principles, involving senior members and leadership in decision‑making.
• Mentor and coach junior and senior developers through code reviews, pair programming, and continuous learning initiatives, promoting best practices in GitHub, CI/CD, and secure coding.
• Promote AI adoption across the organization by identifying opportunities, conducting POCs, and integrating AI into SDLC, product management, and operations workflows using tools such as Copilot and Power Platform AI.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional stakeholders—enterprise architecture, product owners, UX designers, and business leaders—to deliver well‑structured, maintainable, and impactful features for MVPs.
• Drive innovation by researching emerging technologies, proposing new tools and practices, and incubating ideas through rapid prototyping and MVP delivery using Design Thinking and Agile.
• Conduct technical evaluations, impact assessments, and solution prototyping to support agile delivery and continuous improvement of engineering processes.
• Ensure the protection of all physical, financial, and cybersecurity assets and properly handle private customer data, proprietary information, confidential medical records, and other highly sensitive information with the highest standards of conduct and integrity.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
• Seven or more years of hands‑on full‑stack, enterprise‑scale experience in software development and delivery.
• One or more years of experience building, integrating, and scaling AI solutions.
• Three or more years of experience leading technical teams and mentoring and coaching other developers.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven experience leading enterprise‑grade full‑stack application development, including designing scalable architectures and delivering maintainable solutions across multiple systems or domains.
• Deep hands‑on expertise with AI and Generative AI, including building and scaling solutions using large language models (LLMs) and designing Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures to ground AI responses with enterprise data.
• Demonstrated ability to architect and deliver AI‑enabled applications and intelligent agents, translating complex business needs into secure, reliable, and production‑ready solutions.
• Three or more years of experience building cloud‑native solutions and deploying on cloud‑based architectures—Azure, GCP, and/or AWS—and understanding of enterprise architectures.
• Strong command of modern engineering tools and practices, including Git‑based version control (e.g., GitHub), pull request and code review workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and proficiency with modern IDEs such as VS Code or equivalents.
• Experience leveraging AI‑assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot or similar) to increase developer productivity, improve code quality, and guide teams on effective usage.
• Solid understanding of secure software design, data privacy, and enterprise compliance, particularly when working with sensitive or regulated data.
• Ability to lead technical decision‑making and architectural direction, partnering with enterprise architects, product leaders, and cross‑functional stakeholders to align solutions with long‑term strategy.
• Proven leadership in mentoring engineers, driving innovation, and promoting AI adoption, including leading proof of concepts, demos, and thought leadership efforts across the organization.

Additional Information

• This position’s work mode is hybrid. The employee will report to an SCE facility for a set number of days with the option to work remotely on the remaining days. Unless otherwise noted, employees are required to work and reside in the state of California. Further details of this work mode will be discussed at the interview stage. The work mode can be changed based on business needs.
• Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
• The primary work location for this position is Rosemead, CA.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Southern California Edison is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.

We are committed to ensuring that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodations at or and select option 2.