Candid Intelligence

Internal AI agent for EPC projects

Vice President of Projects

Engineering LeadershipConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeHouston, TX, USA

About the Job

Requirements

Have 20 or more years of experience in power generation engineering, with deep experience in combined-cycle and simple-cycle gas.
Have directed engineering on at least two gas plants at FEED or EPC stage with $200 million or more in capital expenditure; this experience must have been owned rather than merely participated in.
Hold a Texas Professional Engineer license; multi-state licensure is ideal.
Have a background at a major power EPC or owner-operator.
Have run 10 or more disciplines in parallel through HAZID, IDC, IFR, and IFI cycles.
Have behind-the-meter, islanded, or co-located generation experience, including paralleling, redundancy mapping, and microgrid architecture.
Be Houston-based or willing to relocate to Houston.

Responsibilities

Lead the engineering practice across behind-the-meter gas-fired power projects ranging from 200 MW to multiple gigawatts.
Serve as the senior engineering counterparty to client CEOs, Heads of Engineering, and VPs of Projects.
Stamp FEL-2 and FEED deliverables and defend Class 4 estimates with lenders, investment committees, and incumbent EPCs.
Build and lead the engineering team, including project directors, senior Professional Engineers, and multidisciplinary leads.
Architect Candid's dual-team execution model consisting of the Project Execution Team and the FlowState platform team.
Shape the platform roadmap with the AI engineering team.

Desired Qualifications

Have nuclear-adjacent balance-of-plant work experience, such as Vogtle, Palisades, NuScale, BWRX-300, or Stone & Webster.
Have data-center critical-power experience at Tier III or Tier IV.
Have familiarity with ERCOT or PJM markets.
Have direct experience with project finance, investment committee, or lender engineering review.

About Candid

Candid is the AI execution layer for capital projects in behind-the-meter gas-fired power generation. We compress pre-FEED and FEED schedules by 30%+ at full engineering quality, run by senior PEs on top of a software platform built around how this work actually gets done. We recently closed a $6.5M round led by Schneider Electric and Yann LeCun. Active pipeline: 200 MW to 2.4 GW BTM gas projects serving AI factories, hyperscale data centers, and gas-to-nuclear bridge architectures across Texas and the Gulf Coast.

The Role

You lead Candid's engineering practice. Walk into the room with a 30-year nuclear-trained CEO or a Fortune 500 head of engineering and be a peer on day one. Hire the project directors. Stamp the deliverables. Defend Candid against incumbent EPCs (B&V, Bechtel, S&L, B&McD, Worley) on FEED bids. Shape what the platform team builds by feeding back what the work actually needs.

What You'll Do

Lead engineering practice across BTM gas-fired power projects, 200 MW to multi-GW
Serve as senior engineering counterparty to client CEOs, Heads of Engineering, VPs of Projects
Stamp FEL-2 / FEED deliverables; defend Class 4 estimates with lenders, IC, incumbent EPCs
Build and lead the engineering team — project directors, senior PEs, multi-discipline leads
Architect Candid's dual-team execution model (Project Execution Team + FlowState platform team)
Shape the platform roadmap with the AI engineering team

What You Bring

20+ years in power generation engineering, deep on combined-cycle and simple-cycle gas
Directed engineering on at least two gas plants at FEED or EPC stage ($200M+ capex). Owned, not participated.
PE-licensed in Texas (multi-state ideal)
Background at a major power EPC (S&L, B&McD, Bechtel Power, B&V, Worley, Kiewit) or owner-operator (Vistra, Constellation, NRG, Talen, Duke, AES)
Have run 10+ disciplines in parallel through HAZID, IDC, IFR, IFI cycles
BTM / islanded / co-located generation experience — paralleling, redundancy mapping, microgrid architecture
Tech-friendly without being naive. You see waste in conventional FEL execution and want to fix it.
Houston-based or relocatable

Nice to Have

Nuclear-adjacent BOP work (Vogtle, Palisades, NuScale, BWRX-300, Stone & Webster)
Data center critical-power experience (Tier III/IV)
ERCOT or PJM market familiarity
Direct experience with project-finance / IC / lender engineering review
Compensation
Senior base + meaningful equity. Unlimited PTO. Medical, dental, vision. Daily lunch and dinner. $150/month wellness budget.

About the Company

Candid Intelligence

Internal AI agent for EPC projects

Candid Intelligence builds an internal AI agent platform for EPC projects, focusing on data centers and process plants to shorten pre-construction work. It ingests engineering documents such as P&IDs with vision and language models to extract data from PDFs, then structures data into knowledge graphs and ontologies on the client’s own infrastructure. An orchestration layer uses multiple agents to coordinate workflows, resolve toolchain inconsistencies, and keep AI processes auditable with humans in the loop. The goal is to cut pre-construction timelines while keeping data secure and under client control, differentiating through on-premise processing, structured data models, and a partner-based, builder-led model.

Company size: 1-10
Company stage: Seed
Total funding: $5.5M
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Founded: Not listed

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