🏠 WHERE YOU’LL FIT IN AND ROLE SUMMARY
As we enter a stage of rapid commercialisation and customer growth in Germany, we are looking for an Electrical Engineer to support the delivery of our site integrations and grow into owning them, learning the full lifecycle from the early information stage through design, deployment and testing.
You’ll work closely with our engineering team based in Manchester as we look to expand our engineering and operations in Germany and across Europe. Together, the team takes an integration project from the very early information stage, designs how it will be integrated into Kraken’s platform and then turns that design into a live, controllable, market-participating asset.
The Gateway (Kraken’s IoT Edge Hardware & Software) and other connectivity technologies with their protocol engineering are owned by our UK-based team, who will support you in becoming configuration literate. Over time you will carry out configuration, deployments and testing for sites yourself, and feed back what you learn about hardware, connectivity and grid operator requirements for European countries so the wider team can build on it.
Engineering delivery is an innovative and engineering-focused team with a culture that fosters collaboration and fresh thinking to create a new energy system. Alongside design, deployment and testing, they constantly look into ways to improve efficiency through tooling and the automation of repetitive tasks. They collaborate daily with delivery managers and customer success to onboard new sites as well as support the existing ones.
🚀 WHAT YOU'LL OWN
Integration design contribution: With guidance, analyse provided information and contribute to hardware and software integration approaches for German sites, mainly BESS (grid-scale and C&I) and RES (Wind and Solar). When necessary, exchange information with customer technical representatives in German and English through meetings and emails, and take part in design discussions with other team members.
Market access & prequalification support: Support the technical work needed for assets to enter ancillary-service markets (FCR, aFRR, mFRR) and to meet Redispatch 3.0 requirements. With guidance from senior engineers, help prepare the telemetry and control evidence for prequalification (Präqualifikation) with the relevant TSO. (Grid-code and plant-compliance obligations such as VDE-AR-N 4110/4120 remain with the plant/PPC; our focus is enabling market access, telemetry and dispatch.)
Technical judgement: Develop your technical judgement, making well-reasoned decisions and trade-offs with support from senior engineers, and contributing technical input to discussions within the team.
Developing domain knowledge: Build up your knowledge in one or more technical areas. This could include German grid connection rules and TSO-specific requirements, ancillary services, Redispatch 3.0, industrial communication protocols, industrial networking, internet of things, cyber security and so on.
Gateway application & configuration: Learn how the Gateway software (developed by an internal software team) works and how it is configured. Understand the requirements for an integration and judge if the Gateway software is able to support it or will need new development work. The team will help you get Gateway configuration literate and you will carry out deployments and changes independently over time.
Hardware and software deployments: Learn the process of our hardware and software deployments. Over time, take ownership of the configuration, deployment and testing of sites with guidance from the senior engineers.
Networking and cyber security: Contribute to hardware and network connectivity designs, keeping our own cyber security posture in mind as well as addressing the concerns from customers, with the support of the internal security team.
Hardware handling & dispatch: Berlin is planned as our stock base for our hardware going out to sites across Europe, so the role includes some hands-on work. This covers preparing units before they ship, such as flashing and configuring our industrial PCs and running pre-shipment tests, and helping to prepare and coordinate shipments.
Site testing & commissioning: Carry out site testing and commissioning, initially with the support of the team and building toward doing this independently as onboarding demand in Germany and other parts of Europe grows. Hardware is deployed remotely in most cases via O&Ms and third parties, but occasional hands-on support in Germany may be needed before or after a deployment.
Incidents & support: Help address engineering help requests from other teams and support incident response in the case of issues at existing sites.
🧠 WHAT YOU'LL BRING TO THE PARTY
Language: Native or professional fluency in German and English, needed for technical documentation and for working with customers, grid operators and our UK-based team.
Understanding of the German connection landscape: Working knowledge of the TSO/DSO hierarchy, the connection/integration process, and the technical connection rules (such as VDE-AR-N 4110/4120) a grid-connected asset must meet before it can participate in the energy markets.
Understanding of the German energy markets: Working understanding of the German ancillary services (FCR, aFRR, mFRR), what prequalification involves, and the Redispatch 3.0 framework.
Technical judgement: Sound technical judgement and a structured approach to problems, working with the team to agree and implement a solution.
Power plant systems: Ability to read and analyse single line diagrams for a given power plant to understand the site architecture for the points of metering and control instrumentation.
Asset integration: Exposure to, or a keen interest in, integrating BESS (grid-scale and/or C&I) and/or RES (Wind and Solar) for telemetry and control.
Integration design: Ability to contribute to clear integration designs and design documentation.
Hardware and networking: Familiarity with control systems deployments and their connectivity including the local networking and cyber security aspects, and an ability to help debug site connectivity and networking issues (including 4G routers and firewalls) with support.
Hands-on hardware preparation: Comfortable working at the bench with our panels and industrial PCs. This includes safely powering panels up and down using our test setup, flashing operating system images, and following a set procedure for pre-shipment checks. Full training is provided.
Industrial communication protocols: Practical experience or a good working knowledge of Modbus (TCP/RTU); awareness of one or more of IEC 60870-5-104, IEC 61400-25, OPC-UA or DNP3 is a plus.
CAD, diagrams and tools: Experience or familiarity with CAD tools such as AutoCAD or BricsCAD, Miro and Notion.
Communication: A clear communicator who documents their work (e.g. in design docs and Notion) and collaborates well with a team that is partly based in another country.
Commissioning landscape: Awareness of the other parties involved in site commissioning for power plants, their roles and responsibilities, and how we work with them.
Engineering background: Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering, Automation/Control, Software, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience in industrial/energy integration.
A proactive and collaborative mindset: You are eager to learn and grow, reliable and collaborative. You take initiative, communicate openly, raise risks early, and care about safe working. You welcome feedback, support your teammates, and steadily build toward taking on more independent ownership of integrations over time.
Location and travel: Ideally based close to Kraken’s Berlin office. Willingness to travel to customers and sites in Germany, and occasionally to our Manchester team, although travel is kept to a minimum. Awareness of site safety is required as we may work with site personnel even though we are remote.
⭐️ BONUS POINTS
Wider knowledge of German grid compliance (VDE-AR-N 4110/4120, TSO-specific technical requirements) and where the Kraken system fits in.
Experience with AWS IoT Greengrass or similar edge-deployment architectures.
Familiarity with software/scripting and templating (e.g. Python, Rust, the Linux command line) and Git-based workflows.
Understanding of IT/OT security in the energy sector (NIS2, EnWG/KRITIS awareness; IEC 62443 a plus).
Exposure to the wider European balancing markets / ENTSO-E frameworks beyond Germany.
Are you ready for a career with us? We want to ensure you have the right tools and environment to unleash your potential. If you have any accommodation requests, please contact us at inclusion@kraken.tech. We’ll do our best to tailor the experience to your needs so you can feel comfortable, confident and be at your best!
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