Greentech & EV charging recruitment | Xist4 | Bristol & London

We help greentech firms hire the data, technology, software, engineering and leadership people behind EV charging, electrification, energy flexibility and connected infrastructure.

These are the roles that build platforms, work with complex systems, make sense of data, protect critical technology and help businesses scale.

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Why hiring is the hard part

Greentech businesses often sit where software, data, infrastructure, hardware and operations meet.

A delayed engineering hire can slow a product release. A gap in data capability can leave decisions being made on instinct instead of evidence. A weak security hire in a connected infrastructure business can create the kind of risk customers, regulators and investors notice.

The people you need are scarce because they rarely sit neatly in one place. They may understand software and infrastructure, data and energy, hardware and operations, or the physical system the technology has to work with.

They are also weighing your offer against employers in SaaS, cloud, AI, utilities, automotive, energy and infrastructure. Get the brief, salary or proposition wrong, and the strongest candidates may be gone before you speak to them.

We work with a small number of greentech businesses at a time and stay involved from brief to offer, and past it.

Why Greentech companies choose Xist4

We are not trying to cover every corner of the climate and energy market.

We specialise where technology, data, infrastructure and connected systems are central to growth. That focus means you get a partner who understands the commercial stakes, the complexity of the roles and what a strong hire actually needs to deliver in your environment.

91% of the people we place are still in role after twelve months.

In a market shaped by infrastructure rollout, product development, operational pressure and fast commercial growth, hiring people who stay is one of the most important decisions you make.

Our Candidate Journey Blueprint gives every search a clear structure and a live feedback loop, so counteroffers, competing interviews and candidate concerns surface early, not at offer stage.

Our Greentech specialisms

We focus on six segments. Not the whole climate and energy market, and not everything with “green” in the name.

We focus on the parts of greentech where technology, data, engineering, infrastructure and operations come together.

Charge point operators and public EV charging networks

We work with the companies deploying and running public charging networks.

They operate like infrastructure businesses and software businesses at the same time. Uptime, payments, customer experience, the driver app, network data, security and the platform behind the chargers all matter.

Roles we support include platform engineers, backend engineers, mobile engineers, cloud, infrastructure and DevOps engineers, data engineers, data scientists, analytics specialists, cyber security specialists, product managers and technology leaders.

Fleet electrification software

We support the B2B platforms behind electric fleets: depot charging, smart charging, routing, energy optimisation, telematics, scheduling and the cloud infrastructure and data underneath.

This is operationally hard technology. The work has to connect vehicles, chargers, depots, energy use, routing and real-world fleet availability.

Typical roles include optimisation engineers, backend engineers, data engineers, platform engineers, cloud engineers, cyber security specialists, product managers and technical leaders across fleet, logistics, energy and connected systems.

Smart charging and energy flexibility

We work with businesses operating across smart charging, load balancing, vehicle-to-grid, grid-aware charging and demand flexibility.

This is where mobility meets the energy system. The talent is scarce because the work often sits across software, distributed assets, forecasting, optimisation, real-time decision-making, energy constraints and customer behaviour.

We help hire machine learning engineers, optimisation engineers, data engineers, platform engineers, cloud and SRE engineers, cyber security specialists, energy systems analysts, product managers and technical leaders.

Battery technology, BMS and battery analytics

We support businesses working across battery management systems, embedded software, battery analytics, battery data platforms, state estimation, degradation insight, thermal behaviour and battery life.

These roles often sit close to the device, the data and the platform. They need people who understand how batteries behave, how the data moves, and how insight becomes better operational or product decisions.

Common searches include embedded software engineers, BMS firmware engineers, C/C++ engineers, battery algorithm engineers, battery data specialists, data engineers, platform engineers, cloud engineers, DevOps engineers, cyber security specialists and technical leaders.

Battery storage operations

We support businesses operating grid-connected battery storage and the technology, data and commercial systems around those assets.

The value is not only in the asset being built. It is in how it is operated, optimised, protected and managed over time, against availability risk, degradation, grid constraints and shifting market prices.

The roles often include optimisation specialists, trading analysts, asset performance specialists, data engineers, platform engineers, SRE engineers, cyber security specialists, SCADA and controls specialists, operational technology specialists, and technical and commercial leaders.

Smart buildings and commercial IoT

We also support the software, data and connected systems behind smart buildings and commercial IoT.

That includes platforms and models that turn sensor data, building telemetry and connected infrastructure into lower energy use, fewer faults, better-used space and more efficient operations.

We help find IoT engineers, backend engineers, platform engineers, data engineers, data scientists, cyber security specialists, product managers, technical leaders and people working across connected building systems.

 

Recruiting it yourself?

The Hiring Campaign Diagnostic is a two-day review of your brief, job description, salary, sourcing plan and candidate journey before you go to market.

It helps you spot the problems that could cost you weeks: the wrong salary, a weak advert, unclear role definition, poor sourcing routes or a process that good candidates simply will not wait around for.

£1,500 fixed, with a written readout you can act on.

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Ready to hire in Greentech?

If you need a recruitment partner who understands the EV charging, electrification, energy flexibility and connected infrastructure market, knows the roles and takes the time to get them right, we would be glad to hear from you.