Thermal Intelligence Engineer

Weheat is re-engineering the heat pump from the printed circuit board up. We combine high-tech hardware with intelligent software to make heating affordable, simple and CO₂-efficient. 

Our Smart Factory in Eindhoven is where hardware, firmware and control logic come together. In Utrecht, our digital and commercial teams translate these technologies into customer-facing value. 

Thermal Intelligence is one of Weheat's three core domains. It turns every home into a digital twin, optimizes heating schedules with MPC and runs safety-critical logic on-device. This is the layer that makes Weheat systems stable, efficient and grid-ready at scale. 

• Strong background in control engineering, thermodynamics or thermal systems engineering 

• Experience with model-based control: MPC, predictive, optimal or adaptive control 

• Comfortable developing and validating state-space models and running estimators on real-world data 

• Able to translate theoretical insight into embedded-ready algorithms tested on physical hardware 

• Familiar with system identification, online learning or thermal modelling 

• Bonus: experience with HVAC, heat pumps or hydronic systems 

• You enjoy high ownership, rigorous engineering and close collaboration with other disciplines like firmware, electronics and data teams