Applications Engineer
TAR, Austin
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.