Imagine having the power to stress-test an entire power grid against a hurricane or thunderstorm before the clouds even gather. That is the reality we are creating at Neara.
We use advanced machine learning to create engineering-grade, physics enabled digital twins of electricity grids across four continents, this helps asset owners understand their biggest challenges and bring the most viable solutions to life across millions of kilometres of infrastructure.
By simulating extreme weather and structural stress at a network-wide scale, we empower the world’s largest utilities to pinpoint risks, optimise investments and build a more resilient global energy future.
Our team is a collection of brilliant minds who are fanatical about making a tangible difference in the real world, utilising AI and machine learning to accelerate everything from data classification to complex scenario analysis. We have built a special culture where innovation thrives because everyone owns the mission and we need smart, creative people to help us scale this impact to every corner of the globe.
Supported by strong customer growth, we are expanding our team in Japan to serve additional networks and communities. This role will form a core part of the rapidly growing team in Japan and help continue our successful expansion in APAC.
At the core of the role, you will take a network’s data and use it to create engineering-grade digital models. You will then work with the customer and other Customer Success team members to deploy use cases that solve the network’s challenges. Once deployed, you will keep working with both the customer and Neara’s internal teams to refine those solutions, so that the results are accurate and the network is using them to solve its financial, risk and community challenges.
You will join engineers, data scientists and infrastructure specialists who share a commitment to contributing to society by making essential infrastructure safer and more resilient, and who value careful, high-quality work and long-term thinking.
This is a critical position reporting to the VP of Customer Success, APAC, based in Sydney. You will work closely with our APAC delivery, product, sales and engineering teams, who share convenient working hours with Japan, and collaborate with colleagues in Europe and the US. As you build deep expertise in the Neara platform, you will play a central role in projects that deliver actionable insights for our clients, working in Japanese with customers and in English with the wider Neara team. As our Japan business expands, the role offers genuine scope for long-term career growth.
Neara values diversity, belonging and equal employment opportunity, and we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. You will need current and unrestricted rights to work in Japan.
Neara is the first physics-enabled digital twin that combines engineering-grade analysis at the individual asset level with network-wide scale. It goes beyond visualization, capturing real-world spatial relationships — and how they change in any condition — that are essential to answering any ‘what-if’ question about your network:
• Between assets and their surroundings — in a >50 mph SW wind scenario, where will assets breach safe clearance thresholds?
• Between assets themselves — if one pole fails, which other ones will go with it?
• Across layers of workflows — if a tower gets moved inland, how will vegetation encroachment zones shift?
It applies the same physics-verified rigor used in engineering design to the full set of critical infrastructure challenges — from asset management and wildfire mitigation to resiliency and reliability, and design and construction. It connects the granular perspective engineers need to maintain a structurally sound, safe system with the network-wide view leaders need to improve reliability and efficiency. With Neara, daily realities upgrade from:
• Chasing risks by problem area to prioritizing context-agnostic risks by total network impact
• Costly and inefficient manual processes to precise, automated workflows
• Messy, anecdotal, project justification to easy-to-audit business cases that hold up from the field to the boardroom and courtroom
Every analysis, from a single pole’s loading to a proposed new transmission route, is grounded in the same structural ground truth so infrastructure owners can prioritize and validate network investment to maximize impact and capital efficiency in every context on every timescale.
Trusted by global utilities including Southern California Edison, CenterPoint Energy, HEDNO, and ESB, Neara has modeled millions of assets across four continents — reducing key processes from years to hours, restoring service >3× faster, and saving tens of millions in annual costs.
