Applications Engineer

About the role

MISSION

TAR’s mission is to power intelligence for the world. We are building the world’s first off-grid power plant for data centers powered by renewable technologies.

We firmly believe AI should be built in the US for the benefit of all people. For that, power must be fast, clean and scalable. We are singularly focused on delivering GW-scale power faster than anyone has ever done, by rethinking every layer of the stack.

We vertically integrate to solve every bottleneck, from racking systems to power electronics to dispatch algorithms to on-site construction.

Leave your mark on the future of civilization-scale energy infrastructure.

COMPANY

TAR is both a hardware and software company, we are building out massive, critical, physical infrastructure. TAR is working directly with one of the largest compute providers to scale and deploy 5GWs by 2028.

We operate on…

- High ownership. High Agency. Own project end-to-end. Great people don’t need to be managed.

- Speed. We achieve great things on incredible timelines. We push ourselves to go faster.

- First principles. No ego. No hierarchy. Challenge every assumption.

- Passion. Solving the energy problem is one of the largest challenges that faces the world now and in the future.

ABOUT THE ROLE

TAR builds renewable-powered, off-grid data center infrastructure, and we have a standard way of doing it: a repeatable set of designs, equipment, and construction methods we know how to deliver. Not every opportunity fits that mold. As the Applications Engineer, you own technical qualification for the ones that don't. You will build and maintain the framework that decides whether a site or deal is viable for TAR to execute, and you hold the final word on technical fit, with direct line of sight into $/MW, capex, and deployment schedule.

This is a judgment role, not a design role. You will be the person development, business development, and partner teams call when an opportunity doesn't fit the standard playbook: an edge site, a distributed energy asset, a co-located industrial opportunity, or something nobody has seen before. You will walk sites with the development team, translate raw field conditions into technical and execution requirements, and make fit/no-fit calls across electrical, thermal, and civil disciplines on incomplete information, in days, not weeks. What you learn feeds straight back into how TAR designs and builds.

Detailed design of record and construction execution sit with engineering and project delivery teams. Your work determines which opportunities TAR pursues, what it will take to deliver them, and where TAR's capabilities need to grow next.

RESPONSIBILITIES

- Build and own TAR's technical qualification framework for non-standard opportunities: the criteria, screening tools, and decision gates that determine whether a site or deal is viable for TAR to execute across power, civil, and deployment constraints.