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, UI / UX (Senior or Midlevel)
Reports To: Head of Software Products-Asset Management
Location: USA, Remote
About the role
Energy Vault Solutions is developing an asset management platform that is capable of optimizing the long-term operation of our renewable energy projects in order to improve their performance, reliability, and financial metrics. We are looking for a talented UI / UX Software Engineer to craft our user experience approach and develop the extensive, data-driven visualizations required to support our customers and internal operations teams.
This is a greenfield project where you will have the freedom to design and build innovative user interfaces supporting multiple user roles. You will work with our hardware, software, and project engineering teams to craft an approach that allows our numerous stakeholders to evaluate all aspects of their energy assets and make informed business decisions. You will be joining an early-stage software team with deep industry experience where you will have the opportunity to build domain knowledge in a rapidly advancing industry and help transform renewable energy projects and utility-scale 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
Work as a member of our remote, agile software team to develop a well-integrated and easy to use productDesign user interfaces and work with our stakeholders to ensure we capture their visualization requirementsCollaborate with our data science team to develop advanced visualizations for energy and financial analyticsCraft wireframes and build prototypes to collect feedback from our stakeholders for continuous improvementBring in new ideas from other industries that can improve the user or customer experience of our stakeholdersWhat skills a qualified candidate should possess
Experience with developing prototypes and getting feedback for continuous improvementExperience with developing data-driven user interfaces using ReactA portfolio of past designs and work products is strongly preferredA solid foundation in software engineering, computer science, and UI / UX best practicesExperience designing and developing custom data visualizations using D3 or similar libraries that can display and compare large amounts of data in a performant and intuitive manner5+ years of experience (7+ years preferred) developing and deploying web-based user interfacesExperience with developing user interfaces to control hardware is strongly preferredBS or MS in engineering preferred (Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related)Experience developing against server-side APIs such as REST interfaces or websocketsExperience with TypeScript is preferredExperienced with software peer reviews and comfortable providing and receiving review feedbackStrong communication skillsIndependent and capable of working in a fast-paced start-up environmentExperience in renewable energy, IoT, or the energy industry is preferredA passion for carbon neutrality by 2050.