Software Engineer - Fleet

Northvolt

Northvolt

Software Engineering
Stockholm, Sweden
Posted on May 15, 2024

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer to join us in our mission to contribute to a greener future. The role is a part of our passionate Fleet team based in Stockholm. In this role, you will be responsible to deliver monitoring, traceability and control for all machines in our factories. Your software will run on our edge gateways, which are the link between the PLCs that control the machines and the cloud. It runs 24x7 on our fleet of thousands of devices across the world and enables Northvolt to make better batteries.

The data we collect monitors and drives our production process and provides a live report on how every cell is manufactured. To make this happen, you will work with the control engineers, suppliers and other cross-functional teams to understand how the machine is built and run, what its software interface looks like and how to get the data we need. Then you design, write, test and deploy an application to collect the data and integrate the machine into our production process.

Part of that process is to manage the software that runs on our fleet of edge devices. This requires to deliver software and OS updates to thousands of edge gateways remotely, reliably, securely and at scale. For this, we have built a custom fleet management system and Linux distribution that you and the team continuously improve.

Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:

  • Design, develop, and maintain scalable Industrial IoT infrastructure
  • Design, develop, and maintain applications to extract data from industrial equipment on the factory floor (most of it is written in Go)
  • Work closely with cross-functional software engineering and industrial automation teams
  • Work on-call as required

Northvolt is an equal opportunity employer. We're a diverse group of individuals, united by a common mission, who recognise that while our actions as individuals have a role to play in driving Northvolt towards its goals, we always seek to move forward as a team. We offer you an open and welcoming atmosphere where we win as a team – and fail as a team. Northvolt is growing at the speed of light and we are a strong believer in internal career development. For us it’s important to look at your skills and potential, please refrain form including your picture and age with your application to help us with this.