Application deadline: 5th May 2024
Target start date: July 2024
Location: Hybrid with 2 days per week at our co-working space in Clerkenwell, London, UK
Hours: Full time with core hours 10am - 4pm
Period: July-September
Origination: New role
Language: English
Compensation: 2k / month
Must have right to work in the UK
Globally, 10% of emissions come from heating and cooling buildings, and nearly 6 retrofits must happen every minute between now and 2050 for net zero targets to be met. Luckily, tech (like good old insulation) to fix the problem exists. But when resources required for such a herculean undertaking – labour, financial, time – are limited, how can we be sure we are starting with the right buildings? Allocating the right budgets? Doing the work well?
Today, we can’t. That’s right: there is no scalable, cost-effective way of knowing reliably how heat is lost across the millions of buildings we all live, work, and play in – let alone how to fix it and how much fixes will cost. This leads to bottlenecks – lost time, wasted resources, and overspent budgets for those executing on building decarbonisation projects now – like housing providers, local governments, contractors, and energy companies.
Kestrix is here to solve retrofit’s data problem, enabling the world to retrofit its buildings at speed and scale. How are we going to do this?
We are building retrofit’s data layer. The ‘Google Maps of Heat Loss’, Kestrix uses thermal drones and AI to construct 3D heat loss models of buildings and reveal retrofit opportunities in seconds, without needing site visits. Our dataset is already streamlining planning, prioritisation, and verification of retrofits not just for single homes, but for hundreds (and soon thousands) of buildings in the portfolios of leading social housing providers.
We’ve raised over £1.3M in equity and grant funding, and are now looking for a savvy, hungry computer vision engineer intern ready to apply their grit and skills to helping bring Kestrix to the next technological level in our journey to decarbonise the built environment.
So what are you waiting for?
I hope to see your application.
Best wishes