Head of Embedded Systems

We’re on a mission to accelerate the energy transition with sustainable home energy for all and it’s our goal to help 3 million households transition by 2030. That is why we're seeking a highly motivated and ambitious person that’s not afraid to make their hands dirty and make a real dent in the climate change challenge that we are already facing.

As the Head of Embedded Systems, you will spearhead our mission to revolutionize sustainable home energy solutions, driving us closer to our ambitious goals and building a whole ecosystem of products. With your leadership and expertise, you'll guide our team in developing top-notch embedded systems that will keep us ahead in the game.

What you will do:

• Lead and mentor the Embedded Systems department, including Software & Electronic Embedded engineers, enhancing a culture of innovation and excellence to drive continuous improvement.

• Be accountable for the development of our Embedded systems, including Electronics (through third-party development) and features for embedded software.

• Create the vision for the software architecture in line with our business product roadmap and key stakeholders.

• Translate the business requirements into software features to be implemented by the development team.

• Coordinate with project managers to prioritize work and allocate resources in a project-based organization where multiple products are developed in parallel.

• Support product owners in defining software requirements, work breakdown, and effort estimations for the features to be implemented.

• Guide and support the embedded development team in creating processes to enhance efficiency.

• Develop and manage Software embedded release plans and version control systems.

• Lead technical reviews, ensuring proper unit, component, and end-to-end (E2E) testing of the features before release.

• A Bachelor's or Master's degree in software engineering or a related field.

• Over 10 years of experience in embedded systems development, with a proven track record of successfully developing complex features from requirements to production.

• Minimum of 3 years' experience in a comparable leadership position, demonstrating a track record of driving organizational growth in a high-paced environment.

• Strong experience in systems and architectural design, covering fully cycle projects combining hardware and software products.

• Solid experience coding in languages such as C++20 and Python.

• Experience with Linux-related environments such as Yocto, Systemd, and CLI usage.

• Solid experience with Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) development.

• A hands-on mindset, ready to develop code when necessary in addition to managerial responsibilities.

• Understanding of the importance of clear requirements engineering.

• Exceptional English communication skills and a pragmatic decision-making ability, essential for inspiring and leading cross-functional teams.

Why Quatt:

• An opportunity to be a part of a fast-growing, ambitious scaleup on the mission to fight climate change.

• Personal development, freedom, and career growth opportunities.

• An open organizational culture, where you can hang out and discuss ideas with everyone, from installer to founder.

• Flexibility to work at the office and from home (after the initial training) and possibility to work abroad one month per year, based on good performance.

• Everything you need to get your job done like a laptop, workstation, and tools.

• 25 days of holidays.

• Travel allowance.

About Quatt

Quatt is an ambitious scaleup 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.

For recruitment agencies:

Thank you for expressing your interest. Please know that we do not collaborate with recruitment agencies. Our internal recruitment team is solely responsible for identifying and selecting candidates for our roles. While we appreciate your enthusiasm to contribute as an intermediary, our current recruitment process does not involve external agencies, and we do not engage with them.