Smart local algorithm developer

Functional area: Engineering

Country: Belgium

City: Wilrijk; Antwerp

Company name: Atlas Copco Airpower N.V.

Date of posting: Nov 4, 2024

Our solutions are a key part of most industries - electronics, medical research, renewable energy, food production, infrastructure and many more. Working with us means working with the latest technologies and groundbreaking, sustainable innovations.
Join us on our journey for a better tomorrow.

Your role
Smart machines and the Industrial "Internet of Things" will push sweeping change through nearly every industry on the planet. It will be the most important technical and business trend of our lifetimes. Atlas Copco Airpower acknowledges this trend, and we are actively implementing smart systems into all our machines.
Together with our team, you will not only work on our current control systems, but also on our next-generation platform of control systems.
Therefore, we require you not only to be passionate about control engineering but also to have a strong interest in embedded hardware and software, emerging technologies from the Io T world, industry 4.0, automation tools, and state-of-the-art development tools.
Our team is composed of a mix of passionate experts and generalists, and you will be able to learn from them and work with them. But it will also be your task to keep track of new evolutions in a very broad range of technologies and gradually add extra knowledge and expertise to the team.
You will propose, defend, initiate, and follow up projects with stakeholders within Atlas Copco, and various partners from industry, academics, and research institutes. Your task will be to translate use cases described by our stakeholders into solid, future-proof solutions and take responsibility for the complete development process. You will be able to translate your ideas into real products.

Responsibilities:

• Design state-of-the-art control and monitoring systems for a variety of applications in the world of compressed air and gas systems. You create functional code that adds ‘intelligence’ to our systems (e.g. optimization, pattern recognition, recommendations).
  
• Innovate new ideas, track related research, develop new concepts, and prototype ideas.
  
• Keep track of emerging and potentially promising technologies. Define relevancy via proof of concepts and real-life testing.
  
• Set up collaborations with third parties via partnerships, funded projects, and bilateral contracts (academics, research institutes, …).
  
• Together with the team you bring your ideas and concepts to the market (e.g. real products that create value).
  
• Act as focal point and technical lead from start to completion of development projects.
  
• Communicate technical innovations and project statuses through reports and regular presentations to our stakeholders and divisional management.
  
• Provide technical support to external and internal customers.
  
  

To succeed, you will need
At Atlas Copco, our slogan for various positions is "hire for attitude & train for skill". We train you for these positions through on-the-job-training.

• You have a technical education background (Master in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Robotics, Mechatronics, or related engineering field), a Ph D is a plus.
  
• Experience in programming using different simulation environments (Matlab, Simulink, …) and high-level languages (Code Sys, Python, R, …).
  
• Strong interest in control theory, signal processing, dynamics of complex systems, artificial intelligence, and algorithm development.
  
• You are eager to develop strong domain-specific knowledge.
  
  

In return, we offer you
You will work in an enthusiastic team where team spirit and mutual respect come first. You will be welcomed in an international and diverse environment with specialists from different disciplines. There is an onboarding program which includes a personal godmother/godfather. You will be encouraged to create your own path within Atlas Copco and get access to our online internal job market with all opportunities worldwide within the Atlas Copco Group. We offer an interesting salary with fringe benefits, including hospitalization insurance, group insurance, paid holidays and a cafeteria plan for car and bike leasing.
Our culture is rooted in Swedish values including a sense of family, respect and diversity. Flexible working hours and the option of hybrid working also contribute to your healthy work-life balance. Our site in Wilrijk has its own training center to further develop your skills, as we offer lifelong learning. We also strongly believe in 'a healthy mind in a healthy body'. You can join more than 20 staff clubs to play sports or relax, from football, to padel, tennis, darts, basketball, cycling, volleyball... Either on our own tennis courts, on our football pitch or in our indoor sports center, or at external locations. We hold the after drink in our chalet. In our inclusive and caring environment, you will get the support and inspiration you need to grow, on every level. Here, your ideas will be embraced and you will never stop growing.
At Atlas Copco, we question the status quo and are always looking for a "better way". Our leading technology and ideas allow us to innovate for the future. We believe that passionate people make the difference. With us, you take control of your own professional journey and are encouraged to act. We have a diverse range of challenging jobs and many growth opportunities. This is where it begins – join us at the Home of Industrial Ideas.

Diverse by nature and inclusive by choice
Bright ideas come from all of us. The more unique perspectives we embrace, the more innovative we are. Together we build a culture where difference is valued and we share a deep sense of purpose and belonging.