Beschreibung : Head of IoT. Unternehmen : alcemy GmbH. Lage : Homeoffice in 10407 Berlin

Job Impact

Humankind has less than 6 years left to limit average global surface temperature rise to 1.5 degrees. This job offer constitutes an unique opportunity to prevent orders of magnitude of carbon emission, much more than you can achieve as an individual consumer or in most other forms of employment.

alcemy was founded to reduce the massive CO2 footprint of the cement and concrete industry. Concrete is humanity's second most used material by volume and is responsible for around 8% of global CO2 emissions.

We are changing this!

Using sensor data and ML, alcemy’s quality monitoring & production automation system revolutionizes how precisely cement and concrete can be produced at scale. With this, producers can bring new clinker-efficient products to market, with 50% less CO2, while simultaneously reducing production costs. We are currently enabling our customers to save more than 100 000 tons of CO2 emissions a year and we aim to increase this to 100 million tons per year in 2030.

The opportunity

• You’ll join us as our Head of IoT, who is responsible for streamlining our IoT deployment into concrete trucks and further maturing and developing our IoT setup
• Become the most experienced person at alcemy with regards to concrete truck IoT and sensors, and carry full responsibility on building out this function at alcemy, reporting directly to our founders
• Lead a team of mechatronic engineers, field mechatronics, and logistics + deployment managers
• Optimize the deployment of our IoT devices into concrete trucks by streamlining, digitizing and automating the installation process, with the goal to speed up installations, minimize faulty installations & enable fully remote installations
• Mature our IoT setup, i.e. the devices we use to measure drum oil pressure, drum rotation, water flow together with our telemetry box and power-off delay, to make our setup more robust, durable, cost-effective and simpler to install
• Further advance our IoT setup, e.g. in the direction of cloud-triggered dosing of fluids via a magnet valve into the trucks drum, together with our telemetry partner DSA

Requirements

• You care about climate change, are happy to really dig deep into concrete production and look for a long-term commitment
• You have been integral part of an IoT(-heavy) product development and deployment over multiple years, be it as a product lead, project mgmt. lead, tech lead, or similar — you have been to where we are now and where we want to get
• You are a great communicator. You are passionate about improving processes and facilitating communication between teams and stakeholders. You have built or led an engaged and purpose-driven team while owning topics like goal setting, evaluating performance, creating development plans etc. in the past.
• You have a thorough technical understanding and know your stuff around the different layers of an IoT product, from the mechanics, electronics, firmware to the network and cloud layer

Benefits

We offer

• You can live and work remotely anywhere within the Germany that's about a day of the train ride away from Berlin.
• We meet up every 9 weeks for team weeks in Berlin to work together in-person.
• VSOP equity options vested equally over 4 years.
• More than 1500€/year & 3 days/quarter personal development budget
• Mac or Linux laptop of your choice
• Join a great team with incredibly smart and dedicated individuals to solve one of the hardest problems of humankind
• 25 days of vacation
• \+3 additional company holidays between Christmas and New Year
• An additional day of vacation for every 2 years at alcemy

Tech Stack

• We use DSA telemetry boxes (VCG) to connect to our IoT sensors (oil pressure, drum rotation, water meter, time relay) mounted on concrete trucks, IoT data is ingested via AWS S3 and Timestream.
• Python for everything in our back-end. Our RESTful APIs are built using FastAPI with auto-generated Swagger UI documentation and OpenAPI schema. Our database schema is defined using SQLAlchemy and our data models using pydantic. We test our code using pytest and write modern, type-hinted Python checked with mypy. Number crunching and analyses are done using pandas, numpy, and sklearn.
• We store our data in PostgreSQL and our infrastructure runs on AWS managed by Terraform and using Kubernetes.
• We use React & Next.js for building our front-ends. Everything is written in TypeScript. We use Blueprint.js as our component library and layout our application using TailwindCSS. Our RESTful API is integrated using RTK Query and any shared state is managed using Redux via Redux Toolkit.
• Internal Dashboards and analyses are built with Streamlit and ad-hoc analyses are run in Jupyter Notebooks

Within 1 month you will

• Complete our onboarding, inevitably learn a lot about the intricacies of concrete batching and concrete trucks, and form your relationship with everyone in your team
• Have taken part in a truck IoT installation in a repair shop of one of our customers
• Get to know the full breadth of IoT and trucks at alcemy, all the way from the hardware we’ve tested, to our supplier management, to our procurement challenges, to our further development plans
• Work on an installation process improvement or IoT setup improvement and bring it into operation
• Started establishing working relationships with other teams working in our concrete product, e.g. customer success, solutions engineering, product development and sales

Within 3 months you will

• Take co-accountability of the IoT/trucks team
• Contribute to the roadmap and team goals of the following quarters
• Give guidance and progression advice to all your team members
• Share your perspective of IoT/Trucks at alcemy to our founders and help create the right circumstances for a long-term success of this part of our business

Within 6 months you will

• Take full accountability of the IoT/trucks team
• Own and improved the KPIs of installation speed, installation errors, data quality, and durability
• Own the IoT setup development roadmap, e.g. by being aware of the current shortcomings, estimating time and technical scope of setup modifications and new developments
• Be responsible of the technical implementation of developments on the IoT setup
• Have significantly improved our internal processes to allow a more efficient installation process

Hiring Process

Our hiring process is fully remote and we’ll communicate with you over email and video chat, unless you happen to be in Berlin; then you’re of course welcome to come to our office.

• 1:1 screening call with one of our team members
• Complete a small take-home task relevant to the actual work you’d be doing
• Skill Interview (60-90 minutes) with 2 of our engineers
• A team fit interview (45 minutes) with 2 of your future team members

We encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply

We encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply. We also acknowledge how stressful interviews can be. Let us know if there is anything we can do to improve the process so you can demonstrate your skill set.

We are currently offering only limited visa and relocation support, so it would be ideal for us if you are already in Germany.