Northvolt | Backend Software Engineer, Connected Battery | Stockholm, Sweden (remote within 1 or 2 timezones can be discussed) | northvolt.com
Do you have that feeling sometimes that what you are doing is entirely inconsequential? You joined that startup with the cute-sounding name with promises of disruptiveness, but at the end of the day you are just doing yet another CRUD application that likely will run out of both runway and users and pivot to become some evil-ish adtech thing to survive? Yeah, we've all been there.
Northvolt is different! We will make a difference, we _are_ making a difference, and we want curious, intelligent, passionate engineers from junior to staff to help us on this journey.
> pivot to become some evil-ish adtech thing to survive? Yeah, we've all been there. Northvolt is different! We will make a difference, we _are_ making a difference
Sounds great! If the company wants to make a difference in a not evil-ish way, you could start by improving the working conditions of the 2000 workers building your factory.
I don't appreciate the snarky tone, but I guess my somewhat glib original post might have warranted it.
At any rate, I do of course agree that the oversight we had with 3rd party construction workers clearly was not good enough. I think unfortunately those types of violations are fairly endemic in construction in general in Sweden, but that's not really an excuse for a company that bills itself as trying to make a positive change in the world. Gotta walk the talk etc.
I'm not so close to the construction team myself, but from what I know we have been making serious efforts lately to combat this problem by cutting down on subcontractors and working with the Byggnads union:
Hi, another Northvolter here! I've been doing some work on our corporate website (1). I'm not able to quickly reproduce the bug (tested in Chrome/Safari on a Macbook Pro), if you can give me some more info about your environment that'd be much appreciated.
(1) not my primary responsibility, but you sometimes get to put on weird and unexpected hats at Northvolt!
Linux with Firefox 89.0 64 bit. It displays correctly after the first load but after selecting and un-selecting it the border does not reappear correctly and looks like this:
We are building the world's greenest battery, and we're building tons of them. We aim to be producing 150 GWh of batteries into the market annually in 10 years.
Digitalization is a key part of reaching this goal. We are doing traceability data collection in an order of magnitude higher degree than what is common even for modern industrial projects. We are building connected battery systems for our customers to collect usage data from the field, on top of which we're creating predictive maintenance models, smart diagnostics tooling and feeding data into machine learning models to optimize future production.
Are you tired of working on yet another CRUD application and want to work on something actually meaningful that might (and will) have a real impact on the world for the better?
I am a hiring manager in the frontend team, and we're always looking for talented and creative people with solid react or react native experience and maybe a dash of adventure since you're probably not reading this from Sweden (we have 60+ nationalities at Northvolt so you're likely to have at least one future colleague from where you live!) and, as me, you might not have much experience in what it entails to build a highly modern factory on a modern tech stack. It's honestly an amazing experience and we have a lot more to do ahead of us!
We're also looking for a whole lot of other software developers as well, here are a few examples:
- Battery Management System (BMS) engineer | Embedded C
- Data Scientist | Python, data driven modelling, data viz, etc.
- Software Engineer, Robotics
- Software Engineer, Go
- ... more (see link in beginning)
Wow! If there was a way to contact anyone at Northvolt and have a very quick conversation about if/where I'd fit, I'd greatly appreciate it. There were 11 positions that I was strongly interested in, of which about 6 I think I would be somewhat more comfortable qualifying for. I went ahead and applied via the "Open Application" already, but it would be great to have a conversation with someone about where I might fit best, if at all.
Hi, thank you for applying! I'll get a few hiring managers to have a look at your open application, and we'll get back to you for a call if they see a potential fit.
Perhaps! File an application with your resumé. If we think there are good fits we'll work something out.
2. How can I learn more about your batteries as a potential customer for a college SAE electric car racing team?
Good question, I have to follow up that internally. The current focus for our Battery Systems team has been geared more towards larger automotive customers and ESS, not sure where we are currently in terms of smaller applications. Will get back to you.
Do you have that feeling sometimes that what you are doing is entirely inconsequential? You joined that startup with the cute-sounding name with promises of disruptiveness, but at the end of the day you are just doing yet another CRUD application that likely will run out of both runway and users and pivot to become some evil-ish adtech thing to survive? Yeah, we've all been there.
Northvolt is different! We will make a difference, we _are_ making a difference, and we want curious, intelligent, passionate engineers from junior to staff to help us on this journey.
About Northvolt, 2022: https://northvolt.com/articles/northvolt-2022-where-we-stand...
The position: https://emp.jobylon.com/jobs/66962-northvolt-backend-softwar...