Energy Vault is the creator of sustainable energy storage solutions designed to accelerate the transition to a carbon free, resilient power grid and transform the world’s approach to utility-scale energy storage. Energy Vault works to combat climate change by enabling clean and reliable electricity through innovative gravity and kinetic based energy storage technologies. Energy Vault combines innovative design, advanced materials science, and proprietary machine-vision software to orchestrate the storage and dispatch of electrical power by lifting and lowering composite bricks, made from eco-friendly materials. Energy Vault’s commitment to sustainability is reflected in a unique approach to the circular economy which utilizes local industrial and energy waste, including remediated coal ash and recycled wind blades converted to recyclable materials, to build the system’s composite bricks. Energy Vault innovates to enable the global shift to a world powered by renewable resources.
About Energy Vault
Energy Vault develops and deploys sustainable energy storage solutions designed to transform the world's approach to utility-scale energy storage in realizing decarbonization while maintaining grid resiliency. The company's proprietary gravity-based energy storage technology, battery storage technology, and energy storage management and integration platform are intended to help utilities, independent power producers and large industrial energy users significantly reduce their levelized cost of energy while maintaining power reliability. Utilizing eco-friendly materials with the ability to integrate waste materials for beneficial re-use, Energy Vault is facilitating the shift to a circular economy while accelerating the clean energy transition for its customers. For additional information, please visit:
www.energyvault.com.
Position Title: Software Engineer (Senior or Principal)
Reports To: Director, Software Engineering
Location: Tysons Corner, VA with work-from-home flexibility or REMOTE USA
About the role
Energy Vault is looking for a talented Software Engineer to help craft our software for intelligent energy applications. You will work with a talented software team to design, develop, and deploy software bringing advanced software automation to the power grid. You will have the opportunity to work with emerging technologies and put solutions into production on real-world projects. You will be joining an early-stage software team to help transform utility-scale power generation and storage.
At Energy Vault we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants. We believe inclusion creates opportunity for collaborative excellence through diversity of thought. We invite individuals of all genders, races, identities, ethnicities, sexual orientations, national origins, abilities, protected veteran status, religions, educational and socioeconomic backgrounds to explore employment with our organization.
What you will do
Design and develop software for controlling and automating energy systems with opportunities to work on hardware control software as well as cloud applicationsCreate novel software solutions to solve unique technical challengesDevelop a hardware agnostic software architecture and tailor our solutions to solve our customers' emerging projectsWhat a qualified candidate should possess
A solid foundation in software engineering, computer science, and software development best practices3+ years of experience (5+ or more preferred) developing and deploying software in cloud-based architectures (AWS Preferred) in an agile team environmentBS or MS in engineering (Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related)Experience in developing Java based software products in data intensive applications involving concurrency and networkingExperience with CI/CD development automation pipelines and container orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes and DockerExperience developing and configuring both high-performance nonrelational databases (such as InfluxDB, Elastic Search) and relational databases (such as Oracle, PostgreSQL)Deep understanding of software architectures and networkingExperience with development in Linux and a solid foundation in Linux fundamentalsExperience with automation and scripting in Python is preferredExperience with software peer reviews and comfortable providing and receiving review feedbackExcellent oral and written communication skillsIndependent and capable of working in a fast-paced environmentExperience in renewable energy, industrial IoT, or the energy industry is preferred