
Providing heating for homes, buildings, and industry accounts for roughly 50% of global energy consumption. Heating is, therefore, one of the largest opportunities in the world to decarbonise; transforming Heating Grids unlocks the potential of low-carbon heat sources such as geothermal and waste heat. Yet, as Heating Grids transform, they will become increasingly complex and require a new approach to control and design. We believe that digital and data play a key role in this transformation and that traditional tooling for District Heating and Industrial Steam Grids has been insufficient. With our real-time Digital Twin Platform, we create a digital copy of your complete Heating Grid that runs in real time. This comprehensive software solution lets you optimise your grid, increase control and run simulations of future situations. So you can improve performance, reduce CO2 emissions by up to 10%, save on operating costs, realise up to 20% lower CapEx and make smarter operational and business decisions. We work with large district and industrial heating partners in Europe, such as E.ON, Eneco, Ennatuurlijk, Helen, Nobian, Shell, Uniper, and Wien Energie. Our team consists of 100+ energy specialists, engineers, data scientists and top-tier consulting alumni and is backed by investors Capricorn Partners, Eneco, ENERGIIQ, and Helen Ventures.

Providing heating for homes, buildings, and industry accounts for roughly 50% of global energy consumption. Heating is, therefore, one of the largest opportunities in the world to decarbonise; transforming Heating Grids unlocks the potential of low-carbon heat sources such as geothermal and waste heat. Yet, as Heating Grids transform, they will become increasingly complex and require a new approach to control and design. We believe that digital and data play a key role in this transformation and that traditional tooling for District Heating and Industrial Steam Grids has been insufficient. With our real-time Digital Twin Platform, we create a digital copy of your complete Heating Grid that runs in real time. This comprehensive software solution lets you optimise your grid, increase control and run simulations of future situations. So you can improve performance, reduce CO2 emissions by up to 10%, save on operating costs, realise up to 20% lower CapEx and make smarter operational and business decisions. We work with large district and industrial heating partners in Europe, such as E.ON, Eneco, Ennatuurlijk, Helen, Nobian, Shell, Uniper, and Wien Energie. Our team consists of 100+ energy specialists, engineers, data scientists and top-tier consulting alumni and is backed by investors Capricorn Partners, Eneco, ENERGIIQ, and Helen Ventures.
Product: Real-time Digital Twin platform for heating, cooling and steam grids
Founded / HQ: 2019, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Customers / Deployments: Energy companies across Europe; deployments in 35+ cities
Recent funding: €28M Series B announced Apr 2025
Team size (reported): 100–140+ employees
Decarbonisation and operational optimisation of district and industrial heating, cooling and steam networks.
2019
Software Development
€28M
Growth round with participation from SEB Greentech Venture Capital and continued support from existing investors including Capricorn Partners, Eneco Ventures and Helen Ventures.
“Led by Blue Earth Capital with participation from SEB Greentech Venture Capital and continued support from strategic energy investors (Capricorn Partners, Eneco Ventures, Helen Ventures, ENERGIIQ)”
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About Gradyent A quarter of all energy in the world is consumed to heat buildings. District heating is the most significant opportunity for cities to decarbonise. Gradyent is on a mission to help cities to decarbonise faster by digitising energy networks with our digital twin. Backed by a group of top investors, we are scaling the platform globally.
We currently have a team of 150+ people and offices in the Netherlands, Germany, and Hungary. Our team combines programmers and energy specialists, data scientists and top-tier consulting alums. We are expanding quickly and looking for a Digital Twin Engineer in the Netherlands.
What You Will Do Our tech team consists of several teams: the Back-End, Front-End, Digital Twin and Cloud team.
We are looking for a digital twin engineer to join our Digital Twin team (consisting of software engineers, digital twin engineers and data analysts). We are a passionate team at the intersection of software development and engineering, aiming to maximize our sustainable impact through our SaaS platform. As part of the Digital Twin team, you will be working on a layer of intelligence (a combination of physics, mathematics and machine learning) that simulates, analyses and optimizes heat networks. As a digital twin engineer you will be building generalized software that can be configured by the colleagues in the Customer Solutions & Operations team. As a digital twin engineer you specifically focus on improving our models, control strategies, parameter estimation, and optimization strategies. These models could range from pipe flow calculations to heat source modelling, and from demand forecasting to time delayed heat transfer.
Our high level stack: Python, GCP, UbiOps, DuckDB, MongoDB, Parquet, Polars.
Responsibilities
Who You Are
Find yourself checking a lot of these boxes but doubting whether you should apply? At Gradyent, we support a growth mindset for our teams through all stages of their careers. If you meet some of the requirements and you share our values, we encourage you to apply. As part of our ongoing commitment to a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace, we’re invested in building teams with a wide variety of backgrounds, identities, and experiences
What We Offer
Apply for the job Do you want to join our team as our new Digital Twin Engineer? Then we'd love to hear about you!