Senior Python Engineer — Hybrid Digital Twin (Wastewater)

Infoplus Technologies UK Limited; Coventry; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Infoplus Technologies UK Limited is seeking a Senior Python Engineer to design mechanistic models and a real-time digital twin for wastewater treatment sites in Coventry. You will build physics-based simulations, integrate sensor data, and enable predictive forecasting and optimization.

The role requires collaboration with process engineers, data scientists, and operations to deliver robust, scalable Python code and to communicate complex results to non-technical stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Proven experience with mechanistic / physics-based modelling.
• Solid understanding of differential equations and numerical methods.
• Experience translating design equations and mass balances into models.
• Knowledge of wastewater processes and digital twin concepts.
• Strong Python skills and ability to build production-ready code.

Responsibilities

• Develop first-principles models of wastewater treatment processes (e.g., activated sludge kinetics, primary sedimentation).
• Translate process design equations, mass balances, and kinetics into computational models.
• Implement models of hydraulics, biological reactions, and process control systems.
• Build clean, modular Python code for simulation and optimisation with testing and documentation.
• Integrate mechanistic models into a real-time digital twin framework with sensor data.

Skills

Mechanistic modelling

Python programming

Numerical methods

Differential equations

Data integration

Model calibration

Digital twin

SCADA data handling

Simulation optimization

Tools

NumPy

SciPy

pandas

Matplotlib

Plotly

Git

Job description

Infoplus Technologies UK Limited is seeking a Senior Python Engineer to design mechanistic models and a real-time digital twin for wastewater treatment sites in Coventry. You will build physics-based simulations, integrate sensor data, and enable predictive forecasting and optimization.

The role requires collaboration with process engineers, data scientists, and operations to deliver robust, scalable Python code and to communicate complex results to non-technical stakeholders.