Embedded software developer

Salary Competitive

The job

You will collaborate with our engineer in the embedded hardware design department to accelerate the development of the embedded software running on our control systems for solar power plants.

Your hobby background and projects will be vital. We are interested in what you have done, not what your grades are.

Your work hours and location are flexible, as long as you deliver the results.

We have office space in DTU Risø campus (Roskilde) and DTU Lyngby.

Our production is located in Glostrup.

 

Responsibilities

  • Developing and implementing software for embedded devices and systems, mostly based on ESP32.

  • Interfacing with hardware design and development.

  • Transforming the needs of the company into functional code.

Your qualifications

  • A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or similar.

  • Experience on previous job or hobby projects in writing code for microcontrollers in: C, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, PHP, MySQL.

  • Preferential skills (nice to have): GIT, SSH, VPN, Linux, C++, Arduino, Python, Raspberry pi, Grafana.

 

Your first project

  1. You will modify our wireless mesh network to work in the long range mode, provided by the manufacturer of our micro-controller (ESP32).

  2. You will implement the necessary changes to switch from WiFi interface to Ethernet interface.

  3. You will implement the ability to remotely update the firmware of our devices through the wireless mesh network.

  4. You will implement remote access to our devices to access web interfaces, and to send software updates remotely.

  5. To the current system for sending data to the database, you will add a local data-logging on a micro-SD card to record data in case of lack of internet connection.

Later you will work on improving our remote monitoring web interface, suggesting and implementing the front-end and back-end changes to make the use of data more convenient, graphs, alarms management, data export, automatic invoicing the service to customers.

 

About Startak

Startak is a small manufacturer of control systems used in utility scale solar power plants to follow the Sun movement. Our company is quite young, we are currently three people, and in the past year achieved extreme growth. We are now looking for a skilled and self-motivated person to join our team and, based on business and performances, stay with us!

https://www.linkedin.com/company/startak

 

Salary

To be discusses based on your experience.

 

To apply please send

  1. Your CV in English.

  2. Documentation to show your past projects (it could be a link to your blog, or GIT repository, or screenshots/photos of your projects).

 

 

For more information or questions please contact us at giorgio@solartrackercontroller.com or phone number +4550280986

Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

Flexible working hours
Flexible working hours

Time is precious. Make it count. Morning person or night owl, this job is for you.

Near public transit
Near public transit

Easy access and treehugger friendly workplace.

Social gatherings
Social gatherings

Social gatherings and games; hang out with your colleagues.

Free coffee / tea
Free coffee / tea

Get your caffeine fix to get you started and keep you going.

Skill development
Skill development

We want to take you from good to great.

Unlimited holiday
Unlimited holiday

Take time to relax and reboot when you need it.

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Working at
Startak

Climate change is one of the biggest challenges humanity is facing. Solar power is expected to play a big role in reducing the use of fossil fuels. We make solar power plants more efficient and cost competitive, by increasing the energy production. At Startak we design and manufacture control systems for solar trackers used in large solar photovoltaic plants, to increase the energy production by 10-20% (depending on latitude). We provide our customers with a simple to use, modern and reliable hardware and software solution that is designed to give you peace of mind and control for the lifetime of your solar plant.

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