
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;…

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;…
What they do: Real-time Digital Twin platform to optimise and decarbonise district heating, cooling, steam and CO2 grids
Headquarters: Netherlands (Gradyent B.V.)
Founded: 2019
Team size: 100+ employees (company-stated)
Recent funding: 2828M growth round (April 2025) led by Blue Earth Capital
Decarbonisation and operational optimisation of district heating, cooling, steam and CO2 grids
2019
Software Development
28M
Round reported as oversubscribed; SEB Greentech Venture Capital participated and existing investors continued support
1.9M
Investors listed include Capricorn Partners, ENERGIIQ and Helen Ventures
“Backed by specialist energy and climate investors including Capricorn Partners, Eneco/Eneco Ventures, ENERGIIQ, Helen Ventures; recent lead investor Blue Earth Capital and participation from SEB Greentech Venture Capital”
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.
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Our high level stack: Python, GCP, UbiOps, DuckDB, MongoDB, Parquet, Polars.
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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
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