Sensor Software Specialist

Specialist | Full-Time | Information Technology 

Join our team as a Specialist in Future Sensing Sensors at Vestas Power Solutions. You’ll play a crucial role in delivering software for complex sensor solutions, ensuring best-in-class quality, and creating value for both Vestas and our customers. This is the ideal environment for you if you want to apply your software engineering skills, collaborate with a highly diverse team and create innovation!

Power Solutions & Vestas Quality > Turbine Control Software > Advanced Sensing & Diagnostics 

The Advanced Sensing and Diagnostics Sub Module is part of the Turbine Control Software Module within Vestas Power Solutions. We are responsible for delivering the software for the most complex sensor solutions, including Wind Sensing, Tower Accelerations and Blade Load Sensing. Next to providing this software, it is part of our DNA to validate and verify our solutions on real data to ensure best-in-class quality. Furthermore, our mission is to create smart sensor signals, which enable the turbine to run more efficiently and enable us to detect current and potential future defects to improve our service business and thus create value for Vestas and our customers.

Responsibilities

• Drive best practices across the team together with the functional leads
• Ensure Simulink Standards are improved and introduced using model based design
• Enable the team to work efficiently with Data
• Develop new algorithms for smart sensing and diagnostics solutions
• Together with the team ensure on budget and on time quality project deliverables
• Conduct root cause analysis to pinpoint potential turbine performance issues together with our stakeholders

Qualifications

• A Masters Degree in Software Engineering, Control Engineering or any related subject
• At least 7 years of experience in embedded software delivery with experience working with Simulink and Matlab.
• Familiar with Bitbucket, Jira and other Atlassian tools, C++ coding skills would be highly advantageous
• A physical or data analytical background, which enables you to understand turbine physics easily and process large sets of data efficiently
• Previous experience with guiding a team toward technical deliverables

Competencies

• A highly accountable and motivated individual who serves as a role model, enabling the team to perform at their best within an agile framework.
• Upholds high standards of quality without compromise
• Embraces change and proactively takes improvement ideas or problems and creates solutions
• Good communication skills combined with external and internal stakeholder management
• Ability to reach out proactively to stakeholders within and outside the company
• Culturally open-minded, capable of building relationships across geographical and cultural boundaries

What We Offer

Within VSP we are one of the most cross-functional departments with a huge potential to create customer value, we are on an exciting journey of getting our processes, tools, and requirements to the highest standards. You can be part of this but be part of a team whose mission it is to improve how the turbines function.

Additional Information

We are considering candidates for both Porto, Portugal or Aarhus, Denmark.

Applications are handled on an ongoing basis and we're looking forward to receiving your application

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DEIB Statement
At Vestas, we recognize the value of diversity, equity, and inclusion in driving innovation and success. We strongly encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply, particularly those who may hesitate due to their identity or feel they do not meet every criterion. As our CEO states, "Expertise and talent come in many forms, and a diverse workforce enhances our ability to think differently and solve the complex challenges of our industry". Your unique perspective is what will help us powering the solution for a sustainable, green energy future.

About Vestas
Vestas is the energy industry’s global partner on sustainable energy solutions. We are specialised in designing, manufacturing, installing, and servicing wind turbines, both onshore and offshore. 
Across the globe, we have installed more wind power than anyone else. We consider ourselves pioneers within the industry, as we continuously aim to design new solutions and technologies to create a more sustainable future for all of us. With more than 173 GW of wind power installed worldwide and 40+ years of experience in wind energy, we have an unmatched track record demonstrating our expertise within the field. 
With 29,000 employees globally, we are a diverse team united by a common goal: to power the solution – today, tomorrow, and far into the future. 
Vestas promotes a diverse workforce which embraces all social identities and is free of any discrimination. We commit to create and sustain an environment that acknowledges and harvests different experiences, skills, and perspectives. We also aim to give everyone equal access to opportunity. 
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