Hybrid Lead Energy Performance Engineer

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About the role

  • Lead Energy Performance Engineer overseeing a team to develop energy management solutions using Python at encentive. Focus on technical excellence and cross-team collaboration in Hamburg.

Responsibilities

  • Team leadership & mentoring: Lead a team of at least two Energy Optimization Engineers.
  • Prototyping & MVP development: Independently develop Python-based MVPs, scripts, and tools.
  • Data analysis & performance monitoring: Analyze energy consumption, forecasting, and optimization data.
  • Interface management: Work closely with the Commercial Customer Success and Technical Customer Success teams.
  • R&D & innovation: Actively drive research topics such as baseline consumption models, new algorithms, and optimization strategies.

Requirements

  • Completed degree in Energy Engineering, Process Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science or a comparable field.
  • At least 5 years of professional experience in energy management, data engineering, optimization, or a similar technical environment.
  • Initial leadership experience or demonstrable competence in mentoring and coaching technical teams.
  • Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams (Product, Engineering, Customer Success).
  • Strong skills in Python (pandas, numpy).
  • Experience building MVPs, data pipelines, and reporting tools.
  • Understanding of physical systems such as chillers, heat pumps, combined heat and power (CHP) units, or charging infrastructure.
  • Knowledge of optimization or forecasting models (e.g., MILP, heuristic methods, ML).
  • Fluent in German and English, both written and spoken.

Benefits

  • Real impact: Make a tangible contribution to the industry’s transformation from day one.
  • Entrepreneurial freedom: Flat hierarchies, maximum responsibility, and creative freedom — your ideas are not only welcome but crucial to encentive’s development.
  • Modern work environment: Offices in the heart of Berlin-Mitte and Hamburg’s Sternschanze — centrally located, well connected, and full of life.
  • Flexibility: Hybrid work model and flexible hours — you decide how to maximize your productivity.
  • Sustainable mobility: We cover your Deutschlandticket so you can commute conveniently and climate-consciously.
  • Health & wellbeing: Access to Wellpass with hundreds of fitness and wellness offers across Germany.
  • Team spirit: Several company-wide offsites per year.
  • Learning & development culture: We support you with mentoring, training, and access to a strong founder and investor network.

Job title

Lead Energy Performance Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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