Engine Software Developer-Edinburgh

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Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, Scotland
Hybrid
50K-70K Annually
Artificial Intelligence • Machine Learning • Software
The Role
Continuum Industries is revolutionizing sustainable infrastructure development with our SaaS solution, Optioneer. Since our inception in 2018, we’ve powered the planning of over 30,000 miles of transmission infrastructure spanning underground and subsea power cables, overhead lines, and hydrogen and water pipelines. Optioneer helps major organisations across the globe to build critical infrastructure faster, with greater confidence. Optioneer is already used by enterprise infrastructure organisations such as; National Grid, BP, RWE, SSEN Transmission, Iberdrola and National Gas Transmission in the US, UK and Europe. 
We are looking for a software engineer who will join our engine team to help research and developer features that will push Optioneer in new directions: Improved and more stable performance on existing use cases New functionality that will open up new markets and use casesThe engine team makes up about half of the engineering team and comes from various backgrounds: software, physics, AI and civil/mechanical engineering. The team builds and maintains the various algorithms that power Optioneer’s routing and siting capabilities.

Some projects we’ve previously worked on:
To give you a taste of what your day-to-day could look like, here’s a non-exhaustive list of some of the projects the team has worked on in the past: 
Testing pipeline for our routing engine that creates weekly reports to monitor algorithm performance 
End-to-end routing optimisation jobs using cloud orchestration services such as argo workflow 
Internal library that allows us to easily define different types of optimisation problems such as: offshore cable or water pipeline routing and siting optimisation
Prototype generative-AI powered report generation tool 
Design deployment an algorithm for optimally placing transmission towers along power line routes.

Key Responsibilities

  • Maintain and scale: Help develop systems to test and track the performance of our algorithms on both production and testing environments
  • Collaborate with AI engineers: Work alongside our AI engineers to write production‑ready code, scale prototypes into robust services, and establish testing and monitoring practices for deployed solutions.
  • Research and Development: Design, implement, and optimise solutions for Optioneer, ensuring they align with the overall product roadmap and business objectives.
  • End-to-end development: Take ideas from concept and research all the way to productised, user facing features.
  • Cross-functional Communication: Collaborate with other teams, including customer success and product development to gather requirements, understand the problem and communicate pros and cons of different solutions.

Requirements

  • Strong python development skills
  • Numerical programming in python (numpy, scipy, pandas)
  • High performance computing in python (numpy, numba, pandas)
  • Ability to write clean and modular code
  • Cloud (AWS/Kubernetes)

Bonus Points for:

  • Experience working in the civil engineering industry
  • Experience working with geospatial data (geopandas, dask-geopandas, postgis)
  • Graphs in python (networkx, graph-tool)
  • Postgres (using django)
  • Javascript experience
  • Familiarity with MLOps
  • Familiarity with AI
  • Optimisation (numerical, evolutionary computing methods or other)
  • Argo workflows (or other cloud workflow orchestration service

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The Company
Edinburgh
53 Employees
Year Founded: 2018

What We Do

Tackling decarbonisation and the transition to net zero means radically transforming the vast network of energy infrastructure which makes the modern world go. To meet this unprecedented challenge, we need to build considerably more infrastructure at an unprecedented pace. The planning of new linear infrastructure projects is often lengthy and requires taking into account a multitude of technical considerations and reconciling the often competing viewpoints of various stakeholders. At Continuum Industries, we aim to accelerate the world’s transition to renewable energy by enabling faster, lower-risk and more environmentally conscious project development for power, utility and renewables companies. Our solution, Optioneer™, leverages geospatial data combined with design and planning rules and tests millions of potential routing alternatives against project-specific environmental, social, cost and technical considerations. Our AI-powered platform generates a shortlist of tailored options, in just a few hours. Using Optioneer’s user-friendly interface, the project team is able to compare and evaluate the shortlisted routes against key performance indicators, iterate when new data arises and keep a record of key decisions made during the process. Optioneer drives efficiencies across every project, streamlining collaboration and facilitating more dynamic engagement with stakeholders. It's time to make infrastructure projects work smarter, not harder

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