OATI Career Opportunities
Welcome to Open Access Technology International, Inc. (OATI), where your career journey is in constant motion. Our team members bring expertise spanning various industries and technological domains. Combining the agility inherent in innovation with the stability of our 29-year history, OATI has cultivated a nurturing and fulfilling culture. Collaboration is central to our work culture, empowering every individual to surpass their designated roles and explore new horizons. If you seek a dynamic, stimulating, and gratifying career path, OATI awaits your talents!
If you have any questions, please contact hr@oati.net.
Job Postings
Administrative
Project Coordinator
OATI is seeking business professionals for Project Coordinator positions to assist in coordinating project deployments within the energy industry. These roles require demonstrated proficiency in communication, attention to detail, organizational skills, and a solid understanding of project structuring, planning, and implementation. Successful candidates will play a key role in managing customer, vendor, and internal projects, including various administrative functions. In addition to contributing to cutting-edge industry initiatives, these positions offer significant advancement opportunities within a dynamic, fast-paced environment. The starting salary range for the role ranges from $55,000.00 – $80,000.00.
Job responsibilities include:
- Provide administrative functions and support to project teams
- Provide administrative functions to other groups in the organization including processing documentation as needed
- Participate in various solution project teams, providing support to the project team leader
- Actively support, track, and monitor project communication and activities
- Compile and track data and documentation for specific projects
Qualifications/Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field, such as business and project management
- Experience in a software application is a plus
- 2+ years of experience as a Project Coordinator or similar role
- Bilingual preferred (Spanish)
- Experience demonstrating excellent written communication abilities
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft® Office Strong analytical and communication skills with the ability to acquire new skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Ability to coordinate multiple assignments
- Excellent teamwork, work independently, creative/good level of initiative, good sense of ownership
- Acceptable background investigation report
- Legally authorized to work in the U.S. without requiring sponsorship now or in the future
- Local to MN
Front Desk & Office Services Coordinator
Open Access Technology International, Inc. (OATI) is seeking a professional, customer-service-oriented Front Desk & Office Services Coordinator to support our Bloomington location. This role reports 100% on site and is essential in creating a welcoming environment for guests, including, employees, vendors, and VIPs, while ensuring smooth office operations. The starting salary range for the role ranges from $42,000.00 – $52,000.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage meeting room reservations and ensure seamless event logistics
- Answer and direct calls professionally
- Assign badges to guests and new employees
- Stock and manage office supplies
- Assist the Talent Team
- Coordinate shipments, deliveries, and vendor escorts
- Support building security, monitor gate access, and report turnstile issues
- Respond to alarms and document security concerns
- Assist the Training Department with tracking registrations and participant lists
- Send customer notifications via Outlook (reminders, confirmations, follow-ups)
- Ensure meeting areas remain clean, organized, and event-ready
- Oversee event setup, ensuring a seamless experience for VIP guests
- Coordinate food orders for internal and external events, managing vendor and catering logistics, preparing requisition form
- Maintain detailed documentation of training attendance and scheduling
Qualifications:
- Associate’s degree (preferred) or equivalent experience
- Strong attention to detail, organization, and multitasking skills
- Proficiency in MS Office and professional phone etiquette
- Ability to work independently and manage time effectively
- Legally authorized to work in the U.S. without requiring sponsorship now or in the future
- Ability to lift office supplies as needed
- Work on site
This role is ideal for someone looking for long-term growth in a professional setting. If you thrive in a fast-paced, customer-focused environment, we encourage you to apply!
Customer Support
Engineering and Software Development
Mid-Level AI Engineer
The Open Access Technology International (OATI) is seeking highly motivated individuals to join our team of AI Engineers focused on power systems. This is a fantastic opportunity to gain practical experience working on real-world AI applications alongside leading experts in the energy sector. The starting salary for this role ranges from $100k – $150k per year, commensurate with experience.
Our team is tackling critical challenges in electric power system operations using Artificial Intelligence.
Responsibilities:
- Conduct research and development on specific AI problems critical to power system operations, leveraging OATI’s vast datasets spanning decades (e.g., forecasting load, wholesale electricity market prices, renewable energy generation; optimizing grid reliability, resiliency, and stability; signature analysis and anomaly detection).
- Design, build, and deploy agentic AI systems using frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph and related agentic libraries.
- Implement and optimize retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)pipelines ensuring agents can access and incorporate external knowledge sources for grounded, accurate responses.
- Fine-tune and prompt-engineer LLMsfor task-specific reasoning, planning and dynamic adaptation.
- Lead the development of enterprise-grade AI platform that integrates advanced generative AI and LLM technologies.
- Develop and deploy agentic AI systems capable of autonomous decision-making and multi-agent collaboration.
- Build and optimize neural network models tailored to use cases in the energy/power systems industry ensuring high performance and scalability.
- Implement and standardize Model Context Protocol based communication to ensure consistent context management across AI models and agents.
- Establish and enforce best practices for MLOps, model monitoring and observability to ensure robust, scalable and maintainable AI solutions
- Develop and implement machine learning models using popular frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch) to analyze and extract meaningful insights from power system data.
- Participate in the full research cycle, including literature review, data exploration, experimentation, analysis and presentation of findings.
- Collaborate effectively with other researchers, engineers and data scientists.
- Contribute to the development and documentation of technical code.
Qualifications:
Education:
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a related field; PhD preferred.
Technical Skills:
- 3+ years building and deploying AI-powered systems using LLMs, RAG and agentic architectures
- Solid Python programming skills and experience with modern AI/ML libraries.
- Advanced knowledge of LLMs, including fine-tuning, prompt engineering, and evaluation
- Proven experience implementing RAG systemsand integrating vector databases or external knowledge stores
- Deep knowledge of agentic AI frameworks and multi-agent system design.
- Proven ability to design and implement multi-agent systemsand agent-to-agent communication
- Strong background in neural network architectures, including transformers and other models.
- Strong background in advanced mathematics and statisticsfor model optimization and validation
- Familiarity of Model Context Protocol and best practices for managing AI model context and state.
- Proficiency in Python and relevant AI/ML frameworks such as TensorFlow or PyTorch.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to communicate complex AI concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong foundation in machine learning concepts, including algorithms (e.g., deep learning, reinforcement learning) and statistical methods.
- Experience with AI system security, compliance, and ethical AI considerations.
- Knowledge of natural language processing (NLP) pipelines and data engineering.
- Familiarity with conversational AI and chat bot frameworks.
- Familiarity with version control systems like Git.
- Familiarity with SQL and No-SQL database engines is a plus.
Research and Project Experience:
- Experience conducting independent research or working on AI-related projects.
- (For Ph.D. students) A strong publication record demonstrating research experience.
- (For Master’s students) Experience conducting independent research or working on AI-related projects.
Other Skills:
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to tackle complex problems.
- Strong communication skills to present research findings and collaborate effectively within a team
- Ability to work independently and manage time effectively.
- A passion for research and development in the field of AI and a strong interest in the power sector.
Benefits:
- Gain valuable experience working on real-world AI projects with a significant impact on the future of power systems.
- Work alongside leading experts in AI and the energy sector.
- Potential for co-authorship on research publications (depending on contribution).
- Opportunity to develop your research skills and expertise in a rapidly evolving field.
- Be part of a dynamic and collaborative research team working on a critical global challenge.
IT
Project Management
Associate Project Manager
OATI Associate Project Manager 2-4 Years Direct Experience required
OATI is seeking business and operations professionals for positions as Associate Project Managers who are responsible for assisting in managing mission-critical software application deployments within the energy industry. These positions require demonstrated proficiency in communication, problem analysis, and the ability to review and understand industry business practices and standards. The successful candidates will assist in guiding customer-facing projects that feature software solutions for utility clients responsible for managing electrical grid system operations. OATI professionals lead client and vendor teams responsible for the development and delivery of OATI regulatory, compliance, transmission, energy trading, transmission scheduling, energy accounting, settlement, and smart grid solutions. These positions provide opportunities in a fast-paced environment to work on the latest industry initiatives and the inherent growth opportunities. Bachelor’s degree is required, however adequate industry work experience in system operations and IT will also be considered. The starting salary for this position ranges from $55,000 to $75,000 per year.
Qualifications/Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree with 2-4 years of direct experience.
- Strong analytical and communication skills
- Ability to acquire new skills
- Infrequent travel required
- Acceptable background investigation report
- U.S. Citizen or Lawful Permanent Resident
- Local to MN
The Following Qualifications Are an Advantage:
- Juris Doctor Degree from an accredited law school
- Working knowledge of legal aspects of compliance and regulatory standards
- Working knowledge of FERC, NERC, and NAESB regulations and standards
- Understanding of the software development process
- Energy industry knowledge
- Industry work experience in system operations and IT
Sales and Marketing
Smart Grid Sales Account Executive
Investor-Owned Utilities (IOUs) and large Municipal Owned Utilities (MOUs) are actively seeking DERMS solutions to effectively incorporate and optimize Distributed Energy Resources (DER) (e.g. solar PVs, energy storage batteries, customer-owned generators, etc.), and Demand Response (DR) asset (e.g. smart thermostats, irrigation pumps, etc.) strategies into their grid operations for cost savings, greater grid resiliency, and carbon emissions reductions.
OATI is seeking highly motivated sales hunters and results-orientated individuals responsible for generating revenue for OATI’s industry-leading Grid Modernization solutions that includes a high field-proven and comprehensive DERMS solution for DR/DER management, among other solutions. This role offers a competitive salary ranging from $100,000 to $200,000, based on experience.
Successful candidates will possess an aggressive and strategic prospecting skill set and a consultative approach to sales with a passion for technology. This position is responsible for developing an annual territory sales plan and identifying specific actions to achieve assigned targets/goals and quotas.
Qualifications/Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business, or related discipline
- Experience and/or knowledge with DERMS, demand management, DERs, smart thermostat programs and technology
- Minimum of 10 years of sales experience or equivalent, including exposure to utility/distribution industry, and directly with IOUs and MOUs being highly preferred
- Willingness to do extensive customer research, outreach and travel.
- Understanding and or willingness to learn about the impacts of and opportunities created by FERC order 2222
- Proven success identifying and closing new business
- Ability to build and manage a large, multi-year pipeline
- Strong ability to work in a team environment
- Exceptional interpersonal skills
- Excellent communication skills: both written and verbal
- Fully skilled with standard desktop tools
- U.S. Citizen or Lawful Permanent Resident
Other Requirements:
- Travel: Expected 50%+
- Acceptable background investigation report
- All prospective employees are required to provide a minimum of one relevant work reference
OATI offers full-time employment with competitive salary and benefits, including a 401(k) plan with company match, paid time off, and excellent health and dental insurance programs. OATI prides itself on providing a stable, supportive environment for career development with opportunities for future growth and promotion within the company. Applicants must be self-motivated, energetic, and willing to work in a team-oriented company.
OATI is an EEO/AA employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, age, marital status, familial status, membership or activity in a local human rights commission, status regarding public assistance, or protected Veteran status.
OATI is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. To request reasonable accommodation, contact the Personnel Services Department at 763.201.2000 x 1262 or hr@oati.net.