Software Engineer Industrial Automation

The team you'll be part of

The Energy Orchestration incubation venture is a start-up-style team mixing R&D and business skills, building a disruptive solution for real-time, distributed power flexibility management, working with partners and customers from the energy industry.

The Nokia Bell Antwerp based R&D team is embedded in a wider international team, and interacts with partners and customers across the globe.

Strategy and Technology lays the path for Nokia’s future technology innovation and identifies the most promising areas for Nokia to create new value. We set the company’s strategy and technology vision, offer an unparalleled research foundation for innovation, and provide critical support infrastructure for Nokia.

We are looking for an Expert Software Engineer Industrial Automation to strengthen our R&D team.

What you will learn and contribute to

As Industrial Automation expert, you will:

• Act as a reference team member when it comes to know-how on secure, cloud-connected, and critical industry system practices and requirements, including (cyber)secure operational as well as industry-grade hardware requirements;
• Be working closely with our platform and data flow system software engineers, to realise industry-standard integrations, embedding our distributed data processing system in the industrial environment;
• Take ownership of specific, industrial environment critical and secure on-prem or cloud systems software platform building blocks, and make sure their design aligns well with both the industry context and the overall platform design;
• Actively follow industry (de facto or actual) standardisation trends;
• Are ready to support, from a system author perspective, the roll-out and operations of platform installations in the field.

• A Master degree in (Software) Engineering or equivalent by education or experience;
• Full-stack development experience, familiar with modern software lifecycle practices and tools, open source library use in languages such as Python, JavaScript, C++ and various other languages and design paradigms;
• A concrete, multi-year experience of building software for critical industry systems, thus having expertise in the specific automation interfaces, security and resilience requirements that are assumed in industrial automation (e.g., SCADA systems and modern evolutions beyond it).

• Capable of autodidactically acquiring knowledge an understanding of new as well as legacy technology applied in the digitalisation of industry sites;

• Committed to team, project, and individual objectives at a timescale of a year, months, or days when needed, and willing to work with agility, as customer-oriented actions may require quick pivoting;

• Able to travel abroad for physical interventions at customer sites,

• Attentive to back-reporting results and findings into the team.

• Location: Antwerp (Belgium) - English is the working language, both verbally and in writing

Nokia offers flexible and hybrid working schemes, continuous learning opportunities, well-being programs to support you mentally and physically, opportunities to join and get supported by employee resource groups, mentoring programs and highly diverse teams with an inclusive culture where people thrive and are empowered.

In Nokia Belgium we offer:

• Transport package (public transport refund or garage spot in building)
• Bicycle allowance
• Company car OR car allowance
• Hospital insurance with ambulant care
• Group insurance (coverage for illness, death and retirement)
• Telephone & Internet contribution plan
• Up to 37 leave days on condition that you have worked a full year on the Belgian payroll in the year before you start working for Nokia Belgium