Meteorological Data Engineer

Energy is responsible for almost three quarters of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions. To reduce these emissions and fight climate change, more and more sectors of the economy are electrifying, and the production of this electricity is shifting towards wind and solar power. As this happens, power grids must maintain their key property of always perfectly balancing electricity supply and demand — an increasingly difficult task as more and more of the supply is influenced by the weather.

Dexter Energy is an Amsterdam-based startup that’s solving this problem using AI-based forecasting and optimization services for energy companies. Our software makes renewables more predictable and profitable, helping push fossil fuels out of the market, and speeding up the energy transition.

We are currently accelerating the growth of our company and are looking for an experienced Meteorological Data Engineer to join our diverse team of curious, ambitious and highly-skilled people.

As part of our meteo team, you are responsible for implementing and maintaining the infrastructure of meteorological data acquisition and processing to support the forecasting products of Dexter. Our customers manage thousands of renewable assets, and optimize them every day using our Forecasting as a Service products. You’ll be working on a diverse set of challenges using powerful libraries like xarray, TileDB, the Python data science stack, and infrastructure like Airflow, Kubernetes, and Google Cloud Platform.

Job requirements

About you

• You are excited to join a company that is working towards a cleaner energy future.
• You thrive in a collaborative, entrepreneurial environment and are motivated to keep learning new things.
• You care deeply about writing great software.
• What you might be working on
  Create and maintain data pipelines used for acquisition and processing of many terabytes of weather data from heterogeneous sources
• Work on our in-house cutting-edge weather data library based on TileDB
• Improve the high-performance data processing codebase to keep it in line with best practices and improve usability using libraries such as numpy, pandas, scikit-learn, xarray, polars, orchestration and scheduling tools such as Airflow, kubernetes
• Research and test new data sources
• Build tooling for continuous monitoring and quality control of all data being delivered

Required qualifications

• BSc Computer science or equivalent practical experience
• Experience in a professional software engineering environment
• Knowledge of and experience with at least part of the Python data and ML ecosystem
• Good software engineering and problem solving skills
• Experience building containerized machine learning pipelines

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform, Gitlab, continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD), Airflow
• Familiarity with environmental datasets like NWP model and climate data, remote sensing and observational datasets
• Some knowledge of scientific/numerical programming (calculus and linear algebra on multidimensional arrays)
• Experience with meteorological data tooling like xarray, NetCDF, GRIB file format

Working at Dexter

• Work in a clean-tech scale-up that has an impact on the environment.
• Build a cool company in a highly motivated and entrepreneurial team.
• Make decisions quickly in a low hierarchy environment.
• Learn a lot of things in a short time, from colleagues who are excited to share their knowledge (about the energy industry or anything else).
• Get to work in a modern containerized stack (Python, k8s), with a well-tested codebase, standardized CI/CD pipelines, and documentation. We follow best practices to the bone and love to write great software!
• Collaborate within an ambitious team, which also values a healthy work-life balance. We encourage you to plan work around the hobbies that you want to pursue!

If you are interested in learning more about this position and what Dexter Energy Services can offer to you then please get in contact: Jordan Cantlow (jordan@dexterenergy.nl).

Dexter is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability or gender identity.