Sr. Control Systems Engineer

As we’re planning to install 1.000.000 heat pumps by around 2030 we're seeking a highly motivated and ambitious person that’s not afraid to make her or his hands dirty and make a real dent in the climate change challenge that we are already facing. Are you ready to rise to the challenge?

As a Sr. Control Systems Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in our Product Development team, by designing and implementing state of the art control algorithms for our products and systems.

What you will do:

• Design, develop, and implement advanced control algorithms for HVAC systems.
• Conduct testing and validation of control algorithms, ensuring they meet performance, energy efficiency, and comfort requirements.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, including embedded engineers and software developers, to integrate control algorithms into smartly connected HVAC products.
• Utilize automated testing procedures and CI/CD workflows to streamline algorithm testing and deployment.
• Perform simulations and modelling to evaluate the performance and reliability of control algorithms under various conditions.
• Collaborate with customer support team to troubleshoot and debug control algorithm issues, applying root cause analysis techniques.
• Analyse actual performance of control algorithms in the installed base and pro-actively identify issues and possible improvements.

Job requirements

• You possess strong knowledge of control theory and techniques such as Model Predictive Control.
• You have proven experience in control algorithm development and testing.
• Familiarity with automated testing frameworks and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) workflows is a plus.
• Familiarity with system identification or machine learning for physical systems is a plus.
• Proficiency in programming languages commonly used in embedded systems (e.g., C, C++, Python).
• You speak, read and write fluently in English.
• You are full of energy and motivated by a startup environment.

About Quatt

Quatt is an ambitious start-up that was founded in 2021 by two entrepreneurs and brothers from the Netherlands. Our goal is to accelerate the transition to sustainable heating in the Netherlands and abroad. Our first product is a smart, hybrid heat pump for the Dutch market.

The Dutch government is strongly incentivizing 8 million homeowners to get rid of natural gas and start heating sustainably within the next few decades. Unfortunately, the current pace of heat pump installations is far too low. Therefore, Quatt is improving the overall customer experience, adding smart control software, simplifying the installation job and, last but not least, greatly enhancing the aesthetics. By doing so, we want to increase adoption by an order of magnitude.

We are developing a highly advanced control system based on several AI technologies, like Machine learning and Deep learning. This system enables us to operate our heat pumps, in conjunction with already installed natural gas heaters, in the most cost- or energy-efficient way, at any given day. We estimate this can reduce heating costs by about 20%. By combining this with D2C sales & installation, Quatt is aiming to reach a payback time of 3-4 years; and thus a very quick uplift in sales.