Join the Team
At Gridcognition, we believe that the world’s big problems need big nerds to solve them.
Open Roles:
Full Stack Software Engineer
About you
You are curious and creative; pragramatic and resourceful. You are excited about the idea of joining a small but mighty technical team accelerating the global energy system transition: clean, green, smart, and decentralised. You don’t have to be an expert in distributed energy technology, or in the intricacies of energy markets, but you’re always keen to learn new things.
You are a true full-stack developer: equally happy hacking in React and NodeJS, TypeScript, JavaScript and Python, AWS Amplify and Fargate. You love good development practices, automated CI/CD pipeline, and well tested software.
You love finding out more about how customers are using the tech you are building, and are always striving to make their lives easier: removing friction and frustration from the UX and adding in a big dose of delight.
You still closely follow what’s new and exciting in frameworks, programming languages, and architectural ideas; but when the time comes to build something for our customers you err on the side of choosing simple and supportable, fast and secure, over the absolute bleeding edge.
You are happy working independently and remotely (our current team is spread across GMT+8, GMT+10, and GMT+13).
Next steps
If you are interested in finding out more about the role, email Fabian our CEO at fabian@gridcognition.com with a little background on yourself, and we’ll take it from there.
Data Scientist & Python Developer
About you
You are curious and creative; pragramatic and resourceful. You are excited about the idea of joining a small but mighty technical team accelerating the global energy system transition: clean, green, smart, and decentralised. You don’t have to be an expert in distributed energy technology, or in the intricacies of energy markets, but you’re always keen to learn new things.
You have a background in maths, physics or hard computer science and you are fascinated by modern data science techniques, statistical machine learning, and artificial intelligence.
You are also a hands-on developer who is happy spending their day in Jupyter Notebooks wrangling data, training models, writing Python code and tests, and directly developing our simulation and optimisation engine. You are very comfortable working with Git, Bash, Docker, and AWS.
We’re pretty agnostic about career stage, but if you are early in your career then you don’t need lots of hand holding, and you are happy working independently (our current team is spread across GMT+8 and GMT+10, and GMT+13).
It would be amazing (but optional) if you’ve done some work in the power sector and you know the difference between energy and power; you can explain marginal loss factors or contract max demand; or you know how to forecast load or model solar irradiance.
Next steps
If you are interested in finding out more about the role, email Fabian our CEO at fabian@gridcognition.com with a little background on yourself, and we’ll take it from there.
About our technical team and technology
We are a highly collaborative, and high-performing product, software engineering and data science team, spread across three time-zones.
Our cultural values are: 🤨 Smart, savvy, and curious 😅 Move fast and play to win 🤩 Inventive and future-focused 😆 Fun and collaborative.
The heart of Gridcognition is our custom developed simulation and optimisation engine, which is written in Python. We run our simulation and optimisations using Fargate, orchestrated by JavaScript Lambda functions that integrate our AWS data environment including our data lake, data integrations, data visualisations, and our web environment.
Our web environment provides user access management, an interactive project designer, project library, and access to the results of the simulation and optimisation runs. The technology we use here includes JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Apollo Client, GraphQL, Amplify, Cognito, and Dynamo DB.
Meet the Team
To build the technology that makes all this possible, we've assembled a crack team of energy gurus, software engineers and data scientists.
Fabian Le Gay Brereton
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder
BSc Computer Science (Hons) University of Western Australia
Fabian is the biz guy at Gridcognition, but he’s still passionate the product and technology. He is responsible for strategy, team & culture, operations, business development, and ensuring the business has the capital to execute on our vision.
Pete Tickler
Chief Product Officer & Co-Founder
BSc Molecular Biology (Hons) University of Bath
Pete is the product guy at Gridcognition, responsible for the product vision, customer experience, product roadmap, & business development. Pete is a widely respected innovator & expert in the Australian energy industry.
Dr James Barnard
Head of Data Science
MSc Cambridge University | PhD Durham (Theoretical Physics)
James is the math guy at Gridcognition and expert in data science and machine learning. He is responsible for inventing and developing the core simulation and optimisation algorithms and analytical models that power the Gridcognition software.
David Yu
Senior Software Engineer
B. Commerce & B. Science, University of Western Australia
David is a software engineer with experience building enterprise grade software systems.
Formerly Telstra Purple developing software solutions for Bankwest, WorkcoverWA, Atlas professionals, Instant windscreens, and Telstra.
Alice McCullagh
Senior Software Engineer
Bachelor of Computer Science/Bachelor of Arts (Indonesian Language) from UWA
Alice is a full stack engineer, specialising in serverless AWS applications with a React frontend and has six years' experience in software development and consulting, at Deloitte, ThoughtWorks and Telstra Purple. Previous projects include work for RAC, BankWest, 7West Media, and The Museum of Performing Arts Perth
Adam Green
Data Scientist
Master of Science (MSc) University of Manchester, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) (Hons) University of Canterbury
Adam is an energy engineer turned data scientist. His work focuses on using data & machine learning to combat climate change. He enjoys building models to optimize the control of energy systems, and is particularly interested in the space that exists between economic and carbon optimization of energy systems.
Eddie Atkinson
Software Engineer
B.Phil (Hons), University of Western Australia
Eddie is a recent Computer Science/Data Science graduate who joined the team as a Summer intern from Startmate and we couldn't let him go! Passionate about software, Eddie has been programming since he was 15, and has worked on a number of personal projects stretching from web apps to embedded system programming.
Thai Nguyen
Software Engineer
BSc (Engineering Science) University of Western Australia MSc (Software Engineering) University of Western Australia
Thai is a recent Software Engineering graduate. Passionate about STEM from a young age, Thai has worked on a number of personal projects ranging from web apps to natural language processing and formerly held an internship at CSIRO developing data visualisation web apps.
Hannah Johnston
Customer Experience & Marketing Lead
BComms University of Waikato
Startmate Fellow 2020
Hannah is responsible for customer experience, marketing and communication. She has 15 years experience in marketing, strategy, digital and new product development.