Work @ PD


Your Future Begins At Nantum

  • The biggest challenges of our time are around what we can do now to protect the future of our planet. We believe working in the crucial area of sustainability and climate change is one of the most important things you can do and is a mission that infiltrates our entire company.

  • The impact and reach of technology has accelerated through the integration of AI. With AI, data can be utilized in new and powerful ways. By monitoring and learning, AI can maximize automations within buildings so that unique and real time situations lead to instant changes without sacrificing comfort. We know this is a big deal and our AI is leading us in what others might call magic.

  • You can’t have smart cities without smart buildings. As the world continues to change and cities evolve from design to purpose, buildings are a vital part of what can change an ordinary city into a smart and connected one. There is no such thing as a city without buildings, and by making buildings smarter, healthier, and more efficient, smart cities are one step closer to reality.


Our Mission

Commercial real estate represents ~40% of global carbon emissions.

Our mission is to reduce the commercial real estate industry’s carbon footprint using artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Every building on Nantum OS represents an actual tangible reduction in global greenhouse gasses.

Culture @ PD


Teams

  • The Product team is responsible for end-to-end product management.

    The Product team includes:

    • Product Managers. Responsible for the process starting from ideation to considering it for the Nantum roadmap based on the market, business case, customers, prospects or others. Product specing roadmap initiatives with detailed requirements, wireframes, mock-up and user stories, while interacting with the relevant stakeholders to receive feedback is also a Product Manager responsibility. This group also works with the Engineering team on grooming and implementing features, user acceptance testing to confirm what was developed is according to the spec, release readiness and deployment support.

    • UI/UX. Responsible for ensuring the user experience is optimal for the envisioned value prop and designing the high fidelity mock-up to support it.

  • The Engineering team develops the Nantum platform and adds new features and functionality bringing value to Nantum users and stakeholders. The development leverages advanced architecture and services allowing high performance, deployment at scale, and robustness.

    The Engineering team includes:

    • Frontend. Develops the user interface with which Nantum users interact.

    • Backend. Responsible for building the infrastructure that processes the data, stores the data, and makes it accessible and usable.

    • Data Acquisition. Responsible for data ingestion and control from all the various data sources as well as running the Nantum analytics.

    • QA. Performs rigorous testing and verification of all new software to ensure the performance and availability of Nantum.

    • Platform (DevOps). Develops the infrastructure and pipelines that enable Nantum and the continuous deployment of new features and functionality.

  • The Core Research team directs and implements our research and development policies, objectives, and initiatives. There is a focus on extending AI methodologies, computational techniques, and methods and tools in the domain of smart building technology.

    The Core Research team includes:

    • AI Research Team: Provides robust cutting-edge AI-based applications, pushing cross-disciplinary research and innovation, and expanding the potential of Nantum as a future-proof smart building system of systems.

    • ML Team: The machine learning team is responsible for producing and scaling AI solutions developed by the AI team. This team creates solutions for robustness testing, deployment, monitoring, and adaptive training of the ML models in the production environment.

  • The Sales team connects prospective clients with solutions for the challenges they’re facing. While keeping an eye on sales goals, the Sales team is often the first one-on-one relationship a new Nantum client develops. Sales works closely with Marketing and the Customer Success team to ensure continuity.

  • The Partnership team leads the charge in connecting Nantum with leading companies and solutions in areas that create synergy. These relationships enrich the solutions available to our clients while expanding our reach.

  • The Marketing team is the channel Nantum uses to communicate with the outside world, educating about the impact AI can have on making building operations more climate-friendly and cost-effective by reducing energy usage. Marketing also builds demand for the Nantum solution via high-quality and appealing content and stories.

    The Marketing team includes:

    • Marketing Operations, sales development (SDR)

    • Marketing Operations, demand generation (DG)

    • Content & editorial

    • Graphic design & video

  • The Customer Success (“CS”) team ensures a swift and successful onboarding and ongoing customer experience with every customer engagement. Roles and responsibilities include sales engineering support, utility incentive program enrollment, onboarding and implementation, ongoing customer support, professional services, quality assurance, and more.

    CS team members’ professional backgrounds range from building operations, BAS/BMS and other controls systems experience, IoT sensor management, sustainability consulting, and general IT and project management. In addition, many team members are engineers from the energy management industry with CEM certificates.

    The CS team includes:

    • Project Development Team. This team works closely with the Sales team as the technical experts generating estimates and scopes of work while also determining applicable utility incentive programs and detailing potential energy savings analyses used in proposals.

    • Onboarding Team. This team works closely with customers, contractors, vendors, and other key stakeholders to integrate the disparate data sources into Nantum. This includes managing integration engineers as they work with the project team to successfully deploy Nantum, managing subcontractors for any installation or programming that needs to be done, and ensuring that projects are brought to completion on time.

    • Account Management Team. This team keeps Nantum users satisfied through responsive support and sustained engagement. Account Managers take ownership of product issues and champion the timely resolution of technical support issues. Along with providing support, Account Managers focus on fostering a positive relationship with users and ensuring the successful use of Nantum to drive positive business outcomes.

    • Grid Services Team. This team focuses on how Nantum can help create new revenue streams while supporting grid reliability and creating next-gen grid-interactive and efficient building technology software offerings. Customers can leverage Nantum’s AI/ML-based algorithms that optimize building energy load alongside its edge computing capabilities to modulate energy load and participate in utility demand response programs.

  • The Finance team manages the company's funds and all financial-related activities. The team is responsible for financial reporting, compliance, tax, strategic planning, and financial planning and analysis.

FAQ

  • We currently have just under 50 full-time employees working across North America.

  • Our culture is important. We hire carefully to ensure those joining our team add more than just the expertise necessary for their official job title. We are a collective group of the best individuals brought together by a similar mission: to change the world. Our culture is inspirational, supportive, goal-driven, and realistic — we value fun and the unique community that is created by driven individuals at and beyond their desks.

  • We appreciate and value the differences among the individuals that make up our company. Because of that, we have many different lanes where those who share common interests can connect. We have a fitness group, a group that connects via fine dining, a book reading group, and group that talks about and watches movies. We have groups for sharing podcasts, sharing jokes, video game recommendations and volunteer opportunities. Learning about each other’s passions outside work is what makes our culture great. We also regularly host events around holidays like the Iranian New Year or current events like a March Madness tournament or visiting a Ukrainian restaurant.

  • While under 50 employees, our company has a diverse makeup of cultures and individual characteristics. We believe that the best groups bring together different experiences and perspectives and we are proud to reflect that in our employees at every level. In fact, our CEO grew up in over 15 countries and is passionate about bringing global knowledge to the company.

  • We promote ease of communication and access so that there are minimal to no barriers between departments. This reduces the errors created through information silos and also inspires new solutions to challenges. We regularly promote within and often assess what our team members want to do and are best at so they’re in the best possible role.

  • We offer competitive benefits including health insurance, dental insurance, life insurance, FSA, vision benefits, and disability insurance. We promote wellness initiatives through unlimited vacation PTO and paid holidays, too.

  • We offer 401k, stock options, and performance bonuses.

  • We offer an unlimited vacation policy.

  • Although we have an appealing HQ office space in New York City, we understand that it might not be the right answer for everyone. So, we offer hybrid and remote work policies.