TRECQ

Founding Engineer-Vindexa

EngineeringSeniorhybridSanta Monica, CA
Full timePosted Mar 24, 2026

About this role

Vindexa is an AI-powered compliance platform purpose-built for the clean energy industry. We automate the verification of Prevailing Wage and Apprenticeship (PWA) requirements under the Inflation Reduction Act -- the compliance obligations that determine whether renewable energy developers keep or lose their IRA tax credits.

The stakes are real. A single construction project can carry $50M+ in tax credit exposure. Developers, EPC contractors, and their tax equity partners need certainty that compliance holds up to IRS scrutiny in real time, not months after the fact.

We built the alternative: an AI system that ingests certified payroll data, validates it against DOL wage determinations and apprenticeship program requirements, surfaces violations in real time, and generates the audit trail needed for tax credit certification.

Vindexa is backed by AI Fund (Andrew Ng) and AES Clean Energy, one of the largest renewable energy developers in the world, as our anchor design partner and early customer. The product is built, the first customer relationship is deep, and the pipeline is building. Now we need the engineering foundation to match the ambition.

The Role

You will be Vindexa's first engineering hire and the technical backbone of the company. This is not a role where you execute someone else's tickets. You will make architectural decisions, set engineering standards, own the codebase, and build the AI-powered workflows that make our compliance engine genuinely better than anything else in the market.

You will work directly alongside our CEO, who is technical and actively involved in product and engineering, and operate with significant autonomy. We move fast using AI coding tools and agents as force multipliers, not crutches. The expectation is that you are already building this way and can push the pace further.

As we scale, this role grows with it. You are not just the first engineer -- you are the future engineering leader.

 

 

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