AI Engineer (Asset Onboarding)

Capalo AI Oy; Helsinki; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Capalo AI Oy seeks an AI Engineer (Asset Onboarding) to bring battery assets and hybrid parks onto Zeus VPP, coordinating integration specs and live operation across European markets.

You’ll work hands-on with data interfaces, test end-to-end integrations, and communicate with customers and asset partners, using AI tools to move onboarding faster while maintaining quality and safety. This role blends technical implementation with customer-facing work in a growing energy-tech startup.

Qualifications

• Hands-on integrations and testing experience with technical docs.
• Ability to turn specs into working, tested connections.
• Strong testing mindset and attention to correctness.
• Good communication with customers and partners.
• Proficient Python coding and AI-assisted workflows.

Responsibilities

• Onboard new assets and hybrid parks onto Zeus VPP from integration to live operation.
• Analyze integration specs and convert them into working connections.
• Test end-to-end data flows, commands, and dispatch behavior before go-live.
• Communicate with customers and asset partners to close gaps.
• Write/adapt code for integrations, tooling, and testing.
• Leverage AI tools to improve speed while preserving quality.
• Support production tasks across onboarding and operations.

Skills

Integrations

QA Testing

Python

Solutions Engineering

Technical Support

AI Tools

Tools

MQTT

IEC-104

Modbus

SCADA

AWS

Job description

Location: Helsinki, Finland (Hybrid) Kuopio or remote within Finland Relocation support available

Bring Europe's grid-scale batteries online

We're looking for an AI Engineer (Asset Onboarding) to bring new battery assets and hybrid renewable parks onto Capalo Zeus VPP, our virtual power plant that forecasts, optimizes, bids, dispatches, and operates grid-scale battery storage across European electricity markets.

Onboarding is where our platform meets the real world. Every new asset comes with its own hardware, integration specs, and market context, and connecting it correctly is what lets it start trading and dispatching safely. This role sits right at that point: technical enough to work through integration specs and test connections, and close enough to customers to keep onboarding moving.

It's also an AI-forward role. We expect you to use AI tools to move faster across everything you do, from reading specs to writing and checking code to drafting customer updates. That's core to how the team works, not a nice-to-have.

About Capalo AI

Capalo AI develops software that turns grid-scale batteries and hybrid renewable parks into actively traded energy assets through Capalo Zeus VPP, our fully managed virtual power plant for forecasting, optimization, trading, dispatch, and operational control.

Zeus VPP operates continuously across European electricity markets, integrating with wholesale, balancing, and ancillary service markets while coordinating state-of-charge-aware dispatch across battery portfolios.

What you'll work on

• Onboard new battery assets and hybrid parks onto Zeus VPP, from first integration through to live operation

• Work through integration specs and asset documentation and turn them into working, tested connections

• Test integrations end to end: verify data flows, command delivery, and dispatch behavior before assets go live

• Communicate with customers and asset-side partners to gather what's needed, close gaps, and keep onboarding on track

• Write and adapt code where it's needed for integrations, tooling, and testing

• Use AI tools throughout to work faster while keeping quality high

• Work across the production team's tasks, pitching in wherever onboarding and operations need support

What we're looking for

Required

• Experience in a hands-on technical role: integrations, QA or testing, implementation or solutions engineering, technical support, or similar

• Comfort reading technical documentation and integration specs and turning them into working setups

• A testing mindset: methodical, detail-oriented, and careful about correctness

• Strong communication, including working directly with customers or external partners

• AI-capable: you already use AI tools to do your work faster and better, and you want to push that further

• Coding ability (Python)

Nice to have

• Exposure to energy markets, electricity markets, battery storage, or grid services

• Industrial or machine-to-machine protocols (MQTT, IEC-104, Modbus, SCADA)

• Production experience with AWS or another major cloud platform

• Experience in a startup or another fast-moving, ambiguous environment

Why Capalo AI

• Real-world impact. The assets you onboard go on to trade and dispatch in European electricity markets.

• Variety and ownership. You'll own onboarding end to end and get real exposure to the broader production work that keeps assets running.

• AI-forward by default. We build AI into how we work, and this role is a chance to push that further.

• A growing domain. Battery storage is becoming critical infrastructure for the energy transition, and we're building the software that enables it.

What to Expect

• Location: Helsinki, Finland

• Working mode: Hybrid, 3 days per week in the office

• Recruitment process: Screening call Take-home assignment Technical interview Bar raiser interview

We review applications on a rolling basis and welcome candidates from diverse backgrounds.