Software Engineering and Operations - Undergraduate Placement Year

at  Uniper

Our Uniper COO Digital Evolution team are at the cutting edge of bringing digitalisation to Uniper’s asset business. Through the application of powerful and connected technology we work to deliver the complex challenges of this sector while striving for decarbonisation and a greener energy focus. This is your chance to learn and develop over a year placement with Uniper, but also make a real difference to how an entire industry works.

YOU’LL IDEALLY HOLD EXPERIENCE WITH;

• Programming skills – Python, .NET Framework or similar
• JavaScript libaries – React or similar
• Snowflake, Cosmos & SQL databases
• Microsoft Azure
• Microservices

The 48-52 week placement is an exciting opportunity to be a part of the COO Digital Evolution teams. A major part of this role will be the new development, maintenance and upgrading of key products and software that are critical to both the company and industry. Platform solutions range across tools monitoring and predicting power generation asset health, and optimising business and asset performance, to risk management and market modelling.
Live projects include harnessing generative AI techniques to surface meaning from the deep engineering knowledge in thousands of technical reports written over the many decades of our business, and bringing computer vision and augmented reality to how we support plant inspections and deliver services in industrial environments.
As part of the placement, you’ll be working alongside software engineers, data scientists, creatives and a vast array of domain experts. Combined with getting a mentor and technical training, the placement will allow you to develop significantly over the course of your time with Uniper. There may also be the opportunity for international travel.