Digital Twin Engineer

Join Gradyent as a Digital Twin Engineer

Gradyent is looking for engineers in digital twin technology, AI, and energy efficiency.

Join our talent community to explore FY 2025 opportunities and help shape our district heating systems.

About Gradyent

Providing heating and cooling for homes, buildings and industry accounts for roughly 50% of global energy consumption. Smart production, exchange, and consumption of heat in heating grids is the most significant opportunity for cities and industries to decarbonise. Yet, as heating grids transform towards renewables, they become increasingly complex and require a new approach to control and design.

Gradyent is a leading software provider that helps cities and heavy industry decarbonise faster by digitising, optimising, and transforming their heat networks with our Digital Twin. We are scaling the platform globally and looking for a driven Senior Product Analyst to support our product team.

What you will do

Our tech team consists of several teams: the Back-End, Front-End, Digital Twin and Cloud team.

We are looking for a digital twin engineer to join our Digital Twin team (consisting of software engineers, digital twin engineers and data analysts). We are a passionate team at the intersection of software development and engineering, aiming to maximize our sustainable impact through our SaaS platform. As part of the Digital Twin team, you will be working on a layer of intelligence (a combination of physics, mathematics and machine learning) that simulates, analyses and optimizes heat networks. As a digital twin engineer you will be building generalized software that can be configured by the colleagues in the Customer Solutions & Operations team. As a digital twin engineer you specifically focus on improving our models, control strategies, parameter estimation, and optimization strategies. These models could range from pipe flow calculations to heat source modelling, and from demand forecasting to time delayed heat transfer.

Our high level stack: Python, GCP, UbiOps, DuckDB, MongoDB, Parquet, Polars.

Responsibilities

• Understanding the hydraulical and thermodynamical behaviour of heating systems
• Writing scalable and efficient Python code where performance is key
• Using and extending our digital twin software in state-of-the-art projects
• Research and development of new experimental digital twin features
• Collaborating with software engineers and solution engineers
• Take lead in larger projects/epics where you will guide several junior engineers in day-to-day
• Managing your tasks, planning, and potentially a sub-component of our product

Who you are

Don’t meet all of the requirements but still enthusiastic and think you can make a difference? Apply!

NOTE: We only consider applicants that are already based in The Netherlands

• BSc/MSc in applied physics, mathematics, mechanical engineering, computer science or equivalent
• 1-5 years of experience in similar role
• Expertise in Python software development and software engineering principles. At least 1+ years of hands on experience
• Team player
• High degree of ownership and strong intrinsic drive
• Experience with Git
• Knowledge of fluid dynamics and thermodynamics
• Knowledge of simulation, control systems, parameter estimation, and/or optimization
• And nice to have (not required):

• Knowledge of machine learning and ML OPS
• Familiarity with GIS data and QGIS

What we offer

• A very ambitious scale-up: raised Series B from an international consortium of investors in the sustainable energy industry.
• The opportunity to directly impact sustainability and the energy transition in a senior role.
• Being part of a mission to make the world more sustainable by reducing losses in heating: the most significant opportunity for cities to decarbonise.
• A competitive salary with a variable incentive (SAR) on top.
• An excellent benefits package and fantastic team events.
• A great scale-up dynamic with a high-performance culture while having fun (drinks, offsites, sports events).
• Full flexibility of working location, including an inspiring location in Berlin where our (currently seven) German colleagues meet regularly if they want to work face to face
• We invest in your personal growth – the team is competent at coaching, mentoring and development, entirely focused on you (and not on completing some rusty HR process).
• Get unique opportunities to shape your path in a fast-growing team.