Senior Energy Modeller and Software Engineer

Overview

Role: Senior Energy Modeller and Software Engineer

Location: Athens, Greece - Hybrid

Role ID: 2025-2691

Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.

Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.

Role PurposeThe Senior Energy Modeller and Software Engineer will contribute to the development and application of global energy system and integrated assessment models, supporting research and analysis on the energy transition and decarbonisation. The role involves quantitative research, data analysis, model development, and policy assessment to inform national and international climate strategies.

Example Projects• Further development and maintenance of a large R and Bash codebase.• Assessment of national and international climate policies.• Model-based analysis of low-carbon transition strategies and pathways.• Evaluating the impacts and feasibility of deep decarbonisation across major sectors.

Key Responsibilities• Collect, structure, and maintain large datasets relevant to energy, economy, industry, and transport.• Review and summarise scientific, technical, and market reports to inform quantitative assessments.• Develop and apply energy system modelling tools using GAMS, R, and/or Python.• Enhance and maintain a large codebase in R and Bash.• Contribute to EU-funded research projects, supporting national and international climate policy discussions, including IPCC processes.• Collaborate with senior researchers and consultants to deliver high-quality scientific projects.• Manage time effectively across multiple projects, ensuring alignment with research objectives.

Key Competencies and Experience• MSc or higher in Engineering, Economics, Applied Mathematics, Physics, or a related field.• Experience in data science using R or Python, including library development.• Proven programming skills in Bash and/or Python/R.• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a proactive and collaborative approach.• Proficiency in MS Office, particularly Excel and Word.• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English.

Working here

You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.

We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on.  Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.

Work life balance 

We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.

Benefits

We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health. 

Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion statement

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.

Next steps

Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.

Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via recruit@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.

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