AI Engineer

Austin · On-site

About this role

Energy Exploration Technologies, Inc. (EnergyX) has a mission to become a worldwide leader in the global transition to sustainable energy. Founded in 2018, the company is fundamentally changing the way humanity is powering our world and storing clean energy with breakthrough lithium-ion technology and energy storage solutions.



The Role

We are hiring our first dedicated AI Engineer to do the same thing internally: bring our marketing, brand, and investor relations systems in house and run them on AI-native infrastructure we own. This is a build and ship role. We are currently building our new AI-native website and internal tooling in-house, and you will take ownership of that infrastructure: maintaining it, extending it, and building the systems around it that let a small marketing team operate like a large one. You will work directly with the CMO and alongside brand, content, and IR. You will have real ownership and real budget.

Responsibilities

Web infrastructure

Take over our new AI-built website as its permanent owner. Maintain and harden the codebase, ship new pages and campaign landing pages, own performance, SEO fundamentals, analytics instrumentation, uptime, and deploys. Extend the component and page system so marketing can publish on-brand without filing tickets, and keep the AI-assisted build workflow that produced the site running as our standard way of shipping.

Internal AI tooling

Build and maintain the EnergyX Brand Studio: an internal application that generates on-brand decks, emails, social assets, and collateral against locked brand rules. Expand into IR tooling, research assistants, and internal knowledge search across our documents, media database, and campaign history.

Agentic workflows and automation

Design agents and pipelines that handle real operational load: content repurposing, media monitoring, investor inbox triage, campaign reporting, competitive intelligence. Wire together our CRM, email platform, raise platform, and analytics into systems that run without babysitting.

Data and reporting

Own the pipes and dashboards behind marketing and capital markets reporting. Campaign performance, funnel metrics, cost of capital, attribution. Make the numbers self-serve and trustworthy.

Governance

Set the standards for how AI is used across the company: evaluation, prompt and rule versioning, cost controls, access, and data handling. We operate in a regulated capital raising environment, so accuracy and compliance are core to the work.

Qualifications

  • 4+ years shipping production software, with meaningful recent work using LLMs (agents, RAG, tool use, evals)
  • Strong full stack fundamentals: TypeScript, React/Next.js, Node or Python, modern deploy and CI
  • Comfort with the current model ecosystem (Claude, OpenAI, open weights) and honest judgment about what each is good for
  • Experience integrating third party APIs and building reliable automation across SaaS systems
  • You design for the non-technical operator. Success is a tool the whole team can run on their own.
  • Bias to ship. You get something live this week and improve it in the open.
  • Clear written communication. You can explain tradeoffs to an executive audience in plain language.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Marketing, media, or fintech background
  • Experience with regulated financial communications (Reg A, Reg CF, investor relations)
  • Design sensibility, or the ability to take a brand system and honor it in code
  • Headless CMS, edge rendering, and performance optimization at scale
  • Comfortable inheriting an existing codebase and making it yours
  • Built internal tools that other people actually adopted

Benefits:

  • Competitive pay
  • Paid time-off, holidays, and sick time
  • 401(k) with employer match
  • Equity Package
  • Medical, dental and vision benefits with employer contribution; voluntary benefits available
  • Company-sponsored events

EnergyX is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with EnergyX is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

Company at a glance

EnergyX is a sustainable energy company focused on direct lithium extraction, refinery and battery technology. Combining these technologies from brine to battery will create a process dramatically lowering the cost of lithium resources. The company’s goal is to develop technology and assets that turn it into one of the premier, low-cost lithium providers for the growing lithium-ion battery industry.

The electric vehicle (EV) and energy storage revolution is generating high demand for lithium, with some analysts forecasting orders-of-magnitude demand increases. As the EV market rapidly expands, millions of large-scale battery packs will be in demand. The estimated annual production of EV’s is 20,000,000 per year. For one 85-kWh car, the price of the lithium in the battery is approximately $2,945 per car. Residential (home) and commercial batteries are also gaining market demand traction, and California has implemented law stating by 2020 all new homes will require solar arrays.

Companies already producing lithium are attempting to increase production as battery cell manufacturers are scaling up lithium-ion production with mega factories and actively acquiring raw materials through long term off-take supply agreements. In the Lithium Triangle, where 50-70% of the world’s known lithium reserve is located, current methods of extraction are based off outdated, natural evaporation pond technology, which takes 18 months, and loses 50-70% of the lithium due to co-precipitation.

Our solution is to optimize and apply a highly scalable lithium extraction membrane to the process. The ability to efficiently extract and aggregate the lithium elements from the salt brines using proprietary, multi-level, synthetic ion separation techniques can increase time efficiency by 100x and recovery rate by 300%.

Founded2018
Team Size51-200 employees
WorkspaceOn-site
IndustryServices for Renewable Energy
Location
Travis County, Texas, United States
LinkedInLinkedIn

Top Benefits

  • Competitive pay
  • Paid time-off
  • Holidays
  • Sick time
  • 401(k) with employer match
  • Equity package
  • Medical benefits
  • Dental benefits
  • Vision benefits
  • Company-sponsored events

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