We’re on a mission to make the switch to sustainable transport and energy faster, easier and more affordable. We use our own technology stack, data smarts and industry knowledge to build a game-changing capability. Our intelligent energy platform helps our customers access renewable energy, understand consumer behaviour, and powers smart charging for EVs.
The worlds of energy and transport are colliding and Ohme is at the heart of this new era. By using technology and data integrations to connect cars, chargers, people, energy providers and more, Ohme has a powerful platform that puts the consumer at the core.
Ohme has been selling its chargers to consumers since mid 2019 and has had exponential growth since. We are now operating in multiple countries and have partnerships with the likes of VW, Mercedes, Octopus Energy, and other innovative brands.
We are scaling up the business and are building out the team for rapid growth. If you’re interested joining a fast-growing cleantech venture on a journey to speed up the global transition to clean energy, read on!
We are looking for an experienced
Principal Engineer to join our team. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be a key player in our engineering department, collaborating closely with the systems architect, software engineers, data engineers, data scientists and other stakeholders. Your role will drive the adoption and consumption of AI powered services across the organisation and you will lead the design and development of our AI first architectural vision.
What you will do:
- Catalyse the adoption of AI/ML: Drive the adoption and integration of AI services, ensuring seamless integration with the rest of our platform services.
- Innovate: Contribute to the adoption of internal AI deliverables that we want to place central to our proposition.
- Collaborate: Closely work with the solution architect and the data engineers, software engineers, the data innovation team, and other stakeholders to understand architectural requirements and deliver innovative solutions.
- Design & Develop: Create and maintain scalable architectures and services in the relevant technologies that apply.
- Optimize: Monitor and optimize the performance of systems to ensure reliability and efficiency.
- Ensure Quality: Ensure the quality and integrity of our code and adherence to our architectural vision.
What skills and experience you should have to fit this role:
Required
- Proven professional experience as a software engineer with a focus on architectural design, service-oriented architectures and AI/ML service integration.
- Experience building agentic AI systems in Python and associated frameworks such as, but not limited to, LangChain/LangGraph, CrewAI, Smolagents or similar.
- Comprehensive experience implementing end-to-end RAG pipelines, including working with vector databases (such as Pinecone, OpenSearch), developing effective document chunking strategies, and selecting appropriate embeddings for diverse knowledge bases
- Deep understanding and experience of designing, building and deploying applications into at least one cloud service provider such as AWS, Azure or GCP including LLM hosting technologies such as AWS bedrock.
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with a great engineering and experimentation mindset.
Desirable
- Hands-on experience with various AWS technologies.
- Fundamental understanding of how LLMs work and how to operate them at scale.
- Some understanding of LLM fine tuning and ideal prompting strategies.
- Able to work with AI code generation tooling, such as Cursor, Continue, Cline, Windsurf in a responsible way, ensuring that our standards are maintained.
- Knowledge of the electric vehicle industry is a plus.
- Experience working for a product centric organization.
- Familiar with Agile principles and best practices such as peer code review, pair programming etc.
Who you are:
- Live our values: Move fast, be brave, push the bar, take ownership and be transparent. Be a team player with creative opinions, focused on driving solutions. Always look forward and learn from
- Self-starter: Try your best to always act in the customer’s best interest and solve their Be open to trying different ideas and feedback from colleagues.
- Outgoing and personable: Enjoy speaking to people and starting Be able to be authentic and genuine to really listen and be empathetic towards the customer.
You’ll get to work in a fast-paced and rapidly growing scale-up with global ambitions that are cutting edge, passionate about sustainability and seek to make the world a better place.
Our benefits:
- Competitive salary and bonus
- Hybrid office
- Private Health Insurance
- Aegon Pension Scheme
- Life Assurance Scheme with death in service benefit of 4x salary
- Income Protection Scheme for long term illness
Ohme is an equal opportunity employer. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are at the heart of what we do, and we encourage a culture where everyone can be themselves at work. We actively seek out a diverse range of talent and our policies ensure that every job application and employee is treated fairly, with equal opportunity to succeed and to feel included.
