These are software and data businesses as much as energy ones, and most are moving faster than their hiring can keep up with. A delayed engineering hire slows a product release. A gap in data capability means decisions made on instinct instead of evidence. A weak security hire in a connected infrastructure business creates the kind of risk regulators and investors notice.
The talent is scarce because it rarely sits neatly in one place. The people you need understand both the software and the physical system it runs on, and they are weighing your offer against FinTech, SaaS, cloud and AI employers who pay well and move quickly. Get the brief, the salary or the proposition wrong and the strongest candidates are 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 beyond it.
We are not trying to cover every corner of the climate and energy market. We specialise where software, data and connected systems are central to growth. That focus means you get a partner who understands the technology, the commercial stakes and what a strong hire actually looks like in your environment.
95% of the candidates we place are still in role after twelve months. In a market shaped by infrastructure rollout, product development 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 communication rhythm and a live feedback loop, so counteroffers, competing interviews and candidate concerns surface early, not at offer stage.
We focus on four segments. Not the whole climate and energy market, and not everything with “green” in the name.
The companies deploying and running the UK’s public charging networks. They behave like infrastructure businesses and software businesses at the same time — uptime, security, payments, the driver app and the data coming off the network all run on connected software. The hard hires reflect that.
Roles we place: SRE and platform engineers, senior backend engineers (charging, APIs, telemetry), mobile engineers, cloud, infrastructure and DevOps engineers, data engineers, data scientists and analytics specialists working on utilisation, pricing and predictive maintenance, security engineers protecting connected infrastructure and payments, product managers who understand both reliability and user experience, and technology leaders who can scale a platform alongside a network.
The B2B platforms behind EV fleets — depot and smart charging, route and energy optimisation, telematics, and the cloud infrastructure and data underneath. Operationally hard software: the job is making routing, the power a depot actually has, and reliable charging hold together around the clock, so every vehicle is ready for its run. Connected vehicles and chargers are also a live attack surface, so security sits close to the core.
Roles we place: optimisation engineers, backend engineers (telematics and third-party integrations), data engineers working with operational and telemetry data, platform and cloud engineers keeping connected fleets running, security engineers protecting vehicle and charging platforms, and product managers who know depot, fleet and logistics.
Smart charging, load balancing, vehicle-to-grid, grid-aware charging and demand flexibility. This is where mobility meets the energy system, and the talent is scarce because it has to understand both sides. The premium sits in forecasting, optimisation and real-time decision-making, not generic software — and it runs on infrastructure that moves millions of device events a day without dropping them, with security that treats every connected charger as part of the attack surface.
Roles we place: machine learning engineers (demand and price forecasting), optimisation engineers, data and platform engineers working with distributed assets, cloud and SRE engineers keeping real-time systems up, security engineers protecting connected charger fleets, energy systems analysts, product managers who understand grid constraints and charging behaviour, and the technical leaders who build these teams.
Battery management systems, embedded firmware, state estimation, and the cloud platforms that turn battery data into decisions about degradation, thermal behaviour and battery life. We recruit the software, data, platform and security layer of these businesses — the engineers working close to the device in code, the people building and running the platforms that handle battery data at scale, and the data people making sense of how a battery behaves across its life.
Roles we place: embedded and BMS firmware engineers, C/C++ engineers, battery algorithm engineers (state estimation, SOH and SOC), battery data scientists, data and platform engineers, cloud and DevOps engineers, and security engineers for connected devices and the platforms behind them. We work the software and data side, not the hardware: no cell chemistry, pack design, or electrical and mechanical engineering.
The companies that own and run grid-connected battery storage. The asset gets built and connected long before it earns anything. The value comes from how it is operated, optimised and protected after that, day after day, against availability risk, degradation, grid constraints and shifting market prices. That work sits where energy markets, software, data and live operations meet, and the people who can do it well rarely come from storage alone. They price themselves against energy trading, utilities and the wider technology market, and they know it.
Roles we place: optimisation and trading analysts, SCADA and controls engineers for live sites, asset-performance and availability managers, data engineers working operational and market data, platform and SRE engineers for live energy assets, security engineers for grid-connected assets, and the technical and commercial leaders who run these teams. We work the operations, data and commercial layer of storage, not the electrical, civil or field-service build.
We run a dedicated desk for the software and data behind smart buildings and commercial IoT: the platforms and models that turn sensor and building telemetry into lower energy use, fewer faults and better-used space.
We place the IoT, backend and platform engineers, data engineers and scientists, and the security, product and leadership talent who build and run that layer. What we don’t recruit: BMS controls, commissioning, field service and HVAC. This desk is the software layer above your building systems.
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If you are looking for a recruitment partner who understands the EV charging, electrification and connected infrastructure market, knows the roles and takes the time to get them right, we would be glad to hear from you.
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