Software Engineer (App Engineer, Elixir expert)
Company: Vibrant Planet
Location: Remote USA (Remote)
Salary: $100k - $200k per year
Type: Full-time
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-07-17
About this role
ABOUT VIBRANT PLANET
*We are a team of leaders in fire science, applied science, forestry, policy, and tech who work with land managers, community risk managers, utilities, and insurers to drive action that lowers the risk of destructive wildfire. Our cloud-based, AI-driven platform modernizes land management planning, community risk assessment, and monitoring through scenario building, decision support, and treatment outcome detection.*
*Our fire science subsidiary, Pyrologix, produces leading wildfire science and models that quantify wildfire hazard and risk, and the benefits of mitigation action. This science powers the core Vibrant Planet platform and supports our work across utilities, insurance, and other sectors.*
*Vibrant Planet is backed by climate and resilience leaders including Grantham Foundation, Earthshot, Elemental Excelerator, Ecosystem Integrity Fund, Cisco, and Halogen Ventures. For more information, visit* [*vibrantplanet.net*](http://vibrantplanet.net) *and* [*pyrologix.com*](http://pyrologix.com)*.*
ABOUT THE ROLE
*As an Application Engineer at Vibrant Planet, you will build and evolve our wildfire resilience platform and our utilities platform — the common operating picture that helps community protection, utility, and land management leaders make informed, coordinated decisions about wildfire and climate risk. Our decision support apps support thousands of mitigation plans designed to keep communities safer and ecosystems healthier. You'll work across our Elixir/Phoenix/LiveView/TypeScript stack and Postgres + Mapbox geospatial data layer to turn industry-leading fire science from Pyrologix and ForSys-powered scenario planning into intuitive tools land managers, fire districts, and utility planners rely on every day. You'll collaborate closely with Application Engineering, Product, Design, Data Engineering, Operations, Science, and Infrastructure to ship features that move our partners through the full Evaluate → Design → Impleme...