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ecoinvent

ecoinvent is an internationally active, mission-driven organization devoted to supporting high-quality, science-based environmental assessments. Its activities include publishing and maintaining the ecoinvent database, a comprehensive life cycle inventory database that provides reliable and transparent information on the environmental impacts of various products and services. Companies, researchers, and policymakers use the database to analyze the environmental impact of their operations, make informed decisions, and develop sustainable practices. The ecoinvent database lays the foundation for life cycle assessment projects, eco-design, and product environmental information. Since 2003, it has enabled companies to manufacture their products more harmoniously with the environment, policymakers to implement new policies, and consumers to adopt more environmentally friendly behavior. The newest release of the ecoinvent database is ecoinvent v3.10
13/05/2026
Full time
Back-end Software Engineer
ecoinvent 8005 Zürich, ZH, Switzerland
The team you will join, Proteus, is building a product that powers the model-based work of our internal sector experts: scientists and domain specialists who understand environmental data deeply but are not software engineers. Your job is to build the tooling they use, mentor them in software practice, and help them own production end-to-end. This is hands-on engineering work with a coaching element. You will write production-quality Python, build and maintain data pipelines, collect requirements from domain experts directly, and help people who are not from a software background ship work they can be proud of. This is not a role where requirements land neatly in a ticket and you implement them in isolation. It is not a heads-down engineering position with no stakeholder interaction. If you prefer a fully defined process and minimal ambiguity, this will not work for you. What you will be working on Design and build Python tooling that sector experts use to implement...