Control Systems Engineer (Hardware)

We’re on a mission to accelerate the energy transition with sustainable home energy for all and it’s our goal to help 3 million households transition by 2030. That is why we're seeking a highly motivated and ambitious person that’s not afraid to make their hands dirty and make a real dent in the climate change challenge that we are already facing. Are you ready to rise to the challenge?

As a Control Systems Engineer (hardware), you will play a crucial role in designing and implementing the control algorithms for our domestic heating products. In this role, you will be responsible for enabling the development of prototypes and new products through data- and model-based control methodologies.

What you will do:

• Develop gray-box/black-box models of HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning) components like water tanks and heat pumps.

• Design and refine control systems for domestic heating applications, ensuring energy efficiency and reliability objectives are met.

• Implement low-level controls that enable rapid-prototyping of control algorithms.

• Collaborate with HVAC hardware engineers to develop test setups and identify optimal sensor placements for modelling and control.

• Develop/update simulation environments to test and compare control designs.

• Work in cross-functional teams, including HVAC engineers, embedded software engineers and backend developers to integrate control algorithms into the products.

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Control Systems Engineering, or a related field.

• Demonstrated expertise in designing control algorithms and developing models for control.

• Proficiency in MATLAB, Simulink and Python.

• Familiarity with C/C++ is a plus.

• Good understanding of control theory principles applicable to HVAC systems, including PID (Proportional-Integral-Derivative) control and Model Predictive Control.

• You possess strong interpersonal and communication skills, enabling effective collaboration with diverse stakeholders.

• You are full of energy, eager, and capable to learn and grow.

Why Quatt:

• An opportunity to be a part of a fast-growing, ambitious scaleup on the mission to fight climate change.

• Personal development, freedom, and career growth opportunities. 

• An open organizational culture, where you can hang out and discuss ideas with everyone, from installer to founder.

• Flexibility to work at the office and from home (after the initial training) and possibility to work abroad one month per year, based on good performance.

• Everything you need to get your job done like a laptop, workstation, and tools.

• 25 days of holidays.

• Travel allowance.

About Quatt

Quatt is an ambitious scaleup that was founded in 2021 by two entrepreneurs and brothers from the Netherlands. Our goal is to accelerate the transition to sustainable heating in the Netherlands and abroad. Our first product is a smart, hybrid heat pump for the Dutch market.

The Dutch government is strongly incentivizing 8 million homeowners to get rid of natural gas and start heating sustainably within the next few decades. Unfortunately, the current pace of heat pump installations is far too low. Therefore, Quatt is improving the overall customer experience, adding smart control software, simplifying the installation job and, last but not least, greatly enhancing the aesthetics. By doing so, we want to increase adoption by an order of magnitude.

We are developing a highly advanced control system based on several AI technologies, like Machine learning and Deep learning. This system enables us to operate our heat pumps, in conjunction with already installed natural gas heaters, in the most cost- or energy-efficient way, at any given day. We estimate this can reduce heating costs by about 20%. By combining this with D2C sales & installation, Quatt is aiming to reach a payback time of 3-4 years; and thus a very quick uplift in sales.

For recruitment agencies: 

Thank you for expressing your interest. Please know that we do not collaborate with recruitment agencies. Our internal recruitment team is solely responsible for identifying and selecting candidates for our roles. While we appreciate your enthusiasm to contribute as an intermediary, our current recruitment process does not involve external agencies, and we do not engage with them.