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Looking to work in a young, vibrant, friendly team trying to change the world for the better? Well you’re in luck –we’re hiring for the below position. Even if the position below don’t sound like you, we would still like to hear from you. We are happy to tailor roles for exceptional and enthusiastic candidates, and are always open to listen to a persuasive pitch!
Current Job Openings
Below position is based in Indiranagar, Bangalore and we offer terms that are competitive, flexible and strongly-incentivised.
Wind Resource Engineer
► Key Responsibility
► Description of Role
Our vision as a company is to be world-leading at finding and designing new wind farm sites. We are building a set of tools, approaches and engineering processes that combine to form a capability to undertake the technical management of wind farm development at a significantly improved level of sophistication over existing standard industry approaches.
To achieve its aim, Wind Pioneers is driven by its consultancy work, both in terms of providing the revenues for our continued existence, but also to provide a rich source of learning opportunities to help test and develop our approaches.
Growing a cohort of satisfied Clients is key to the company achieving its long-term aim, and the Wind Resource Engineer will be responsible for maintaining a high level of quality across deliverables.
► Detailed Responsibilities
- The role will involve undertaking a range of technical analysis work using industry-standard tools and Wind Pioneers’ proprietary tools.
- Wind data management and various other sub tasks associated with is.
- Producing high quality engineering analyses, including wind data analysis, wind resource assessments, site designs, energy production reports and a range of intermediary analyses
- Managing flow of client deliverables
- Client liaison and point of contact
- Managing deliverables from third-party technical suppliers
- Research and development tasks
► Candidate Requirements
- Top-level Bachelor’s / Master’s degree
- 0-2 years of experience in a similar role
- Highly competent user of Microsoft Office tools, in particular Excel
- Fluent in English including high-quality written English
- Strong technical skills with ability and willingness to undertake a range of non-technical tasks where required
- International experience preferable
- Independent worker and natural initiative-taker
- Desire to work in a small, exciting, high-growth, international start-up environment
- Can-do, flexible and pro-active attitude to work
- Positive attitude and enthusiasm for wind energy
► Wind Pioneers’ Offering
- Be part of a focused team with a clear vision, dedicated to making an outsized impact in the way that wind farm projects are found and evaluated
- Have the opportunity to be involved in development of Wind Pioneers’ tools
- Enjoy a friendly, relaxed office environment and team culture
- Benefit from flexible working conditions
- Receive a market-based salary along with addition of a six-monthly bonus from Wind Pioneers’ revenue share scheme
Scientific & Engineering Researcher
► Key Responsibility
Ensuring that our flagship software products are powered by state-of-the-art science and methodologies.
The candidate will be responsible for implementing and refining analyses, including wind data analysis, wind resource assessments, site design, wake-modelling, and a range of intermediary analyses. Improvements in our analyses will need to be integrated into our codebase and fully validated.
The role is perfectly suited to a scientist or engineer who has a keen eye for detail, and a passion for progressing the state-of-the-art for wind farm design and development.
► Description of Role
Our vision as a company is to be world leading at designing and evaluating new wind farm sites. We are building a set of tools, approaches and processes that combine to form a capability to undertake the technical management of wind farm development at a significantly improved level of sophistication over existing standard industry approaches.
To achieve its aim, Wind Pioneers is powered by its own software, which we use as a proving ground for new, advanced approaches. The role is a unique opportunity to be at the cutting edge of how wind farms are designed and development.
We require someone to drive improvements to our software through from the idea stage all the way to commercial deployment. This requires someone with a good understanding of scientific and engineering principles, who can implement new analytical approaches within our software stack prior to conducting full validation studies.
► Detailed Responsibilities
Creating Scientific Services
- Identify and apply research findings to improve the accuracy and efficiency of wind resource assessment processes by integrating new technologies, methodologies, and data sources.
- Prepare detailed technical reports, documentation, and presentations to communicate research findings, tool developments, and project outcomes effectively.
- Research and development tasks.
- Conduct validation studies.
- Supporting our development team in the development of high-quality web applications for wind farm design
- Data Engineering using technology like Postgres, BigQuery, Pub/Sub and Terraform, for architecting and building event-driven systems and data lakes, for geospatial among other data types.
- Scientific Services using mostly Python and (optional but not required) Rust, for developing and maintaining performance analysis tools for designing and optimising multi-GW scale wind farms.
► Candidate Requirements
- A passion for wind resource, and for the role renewable energy can play in mitigating climate change
- A bachelor’s or master’s degree in a scientific or engineering discipline from a top-level school. PhD holders are also encouraged to apply.
- Around 3-5 years of experience in the field and in a similar role. Also capable of independent work and taking initiative in self-directing work projects.
- Experience in the wind industry would be ideal, but not a requirement.
- Proficiency with Git and Git Flow will be useful, though not mandatory.
- Basic proficiency with software development and knowledge of Python will be an added advantage.
- Fluent English including high-quality written English
- International experience preferable
- Independent worker and natural initiative-taker
- Desire to work in a small, exciting, high-growth, international start-up environment.
- Can-do, flexible and pro-active attitude to work
- Positive attitude and enthusiasm for wind energy
► Wind Pioneers’ Offering
- Be part of a focused team with a clear vision, dedicated to making an outsized impact in the way that wind farm projects are found and evaluated
- Have the opportunity to be involved in development of Wind Pioneers’ tools
- Enjoy a friendly, relaxed office environment and team culture
- Benefit from flexible working conditions
- Receive a market-based salary along with addition of a six-monthly bonus from Wind Pioneers’ revenue share scheme
