Northvolt has an exciting job possibility for a software engineer that wants to be a part of making oil history.
You will play an important role in the commissioning and development of Europe's first battery giga-factory, which will help the transformation to a carbon free society.
About the role
As Factory Commissioning Software Engineer at Northvolt you will be responsible to deliver a complete, functioning system of traceability and control for the equipment in our factories. Your software will run on our edge gateways and in the cloud, connecting PLCs, that control the machines, and the cloud-native manufacturing execution system. It runs 24x7 on our fleet of thousands of devices the across the site and in the cloud enabling Northvolt to make better decisions.
The data we collect monitors and drives our production process and testing facilities. They provide a live report on how every cell is manufactured and how it is performing.
You will be part of a distributed team, locally present at Europe’s first home-grown battery Gigafactory – in the middle of all the happening. You will work with a broad set of software teams to make all the puzzle pieces fit together and improve the complete Northvolt Software platform.
You will collaborate with all different disciplines working on commissioning:
control engineers, process engineers, quality engineers, suppliers and other cross-functional teams to understand how the machine is built, what its software interface looks like and how to get the data we need.
You will need to get a in depth understanding of the production process and data flow in our system to support with root cause analysis, maintenance, and continuous improvement of our environment. Additionally, we are looking for candidates that are excited about the industrial world – seeing things in reality and making real things happen.
How we work
Our software is written in Go and we open source software like GitHub - gopcua/opcua: Native Go OPC-UA library . We choose carefully which services, tools and libraries we use since we need to have long-term maintainability in mind. Because of this, we try to focus on simple solutions that we can write ourselves and if possible rely on managed services from AWS.
The whole team is ambitious about Making Oil History! and the factory run – every day a step further. We spend a large amount of our work in or around the factory, to see problems first hand that we can improve.
What we expect from you
We require some basic understanding of algorithms, data structures, concurrency, distributed systems and eventual consistency but you don’t have to be an expert. We value passion, curiosity and willingness to learn on the job and teach you what you need to know.
You know how to explain your ideas to your peers and like to find solutions to complex problems. You are comfortable to work independently and value the support you get from the team. You are comfortable to challenge the status quo since we don’t have all the answers either.
Additionally, we do strongly care about your excitement of an industrial environment – no previous experience is required, however it’s definitely a plus.
Keywords: Go, algorithms, concurrency, data structures, distributed systems, eventual consistency, industrial automation, industrial systems, commissioning, OPCUA, IoT
Northvolt makes green batteries for a blue planet. Affordable cells and high-quality battery systems. All manufactured with a record-low carbon footprint. Purposely built to provide Europe with the opportunity to switch to renewable energy – efficiently and entirely.
To accomplish this, we do things differently. We design, manufacture, and recycle everything under one roof. We even build our own factories. All this is incredibly challenging and requires us to think in unconventional ways. We’re constantly experimenting, learning and adapting to make batteries so great – they will one day make oil history.
Northvolt is growing fast. We’re staffing our international office in Stockholm, our R&D facility, Northvolt Labs, in Västerås, as well as our Gdansk facility for production of battery systems. We're also hiring for our gigafactory Northvolt Ett in Skellefteå, Sweden. We want to work with smart individuals from all disciplines. Strong individuals that truly want to make a positive impact on the future. Those of us already on board share a passion for our mission. We’re prepared to work hard in pursuit of excellence. We enjoy the ride and our main drive is to make a difference for real. As a team, we’re dedicated to thinking new, working hard and having fun.
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