Working Student Civil Engineering, Battery Storage (BESS)

Your mission

What you will do

• Layout plans. Draw scaled site and layout plans, including access, safety distances and the cable route to the grid connection.
• Building applications. Prepare application packages with our partner architect, coordinate expert reports and answer the authority's follow-up questions until the decision.
• Planning law check. Review development and land use plans and work out which permitting procedure a site needs.
• On site. Accompany the construction of our projects. You are not the site manager, but you are there when the foundations go in and the containers are lifted into place, and you see your permit turn into steel and concrete.
• Make us faster. Turn recurring steps into templates and AI-assisted workflows.

Projects you could own

• An AI-assisted site scanner that reads cadastre, zoning plan and aerial imagery and tells us within a day whether a battery can be permitted on a plot.
• A layout generator: drop in a plot and get a first scaled layout for a containerised storage system, with access, safety distances and the cable route.
• Our playbook for building authorities: the questions they ask on water protection, noise and fire safety, and the answers that got our projects approved.

Who you are

• You are at the top of your cohort. You study civil engineering, architecture or urban and spatial planning (Bachelor from the 4th semester or Master), with grades you would put on the first page of your CV.
• You have built something outside the curriculum. A startup or startup internship, a design competition, a student initiative, a research project. You can explain what you decided and what came out of it.
• You know your way around building law, or learn it fast. BauGB, a state building code and the building documents ordinance do not scare you, and you can read a development plan.
• You draw accurately. You work confidently in CAD (AutoCAD or similar). QGIS or other GIS experience is a plus.
• You get answers from authorities. You pick up the phone, ask the right question and document the answer so the whole team can use it.
• German at C1 or higher, good English. Building authorities, municipalities and our customers work in German.

You will enjoy this if

• you like solving the puzzle of a zoning plan and a site that does not quite fit,
• you want to see infrastructure actually get built, not stay on paper,
• you want to be in the office with the team most of your working days.

You will not enjoy this if

• you would rather wait for instructions than pick up the phone and call a building authority yourself.
• you expect a predefined task list or a fully remote job.

What we offer

• Real work, no intern projects. What you prepare goes out under our name to grid operators, building authorities and customers.
• Direct line to the founders and our Head of Projects. You sit next to the people who decide, and your ideas get tested the same week.
• The tools to move fast. Claude and the AI tooling we build our workflows with. If something helps you work faster, we get it.
• Flexibility around your studies. Hours that move with your exam phases, office in Berlin-Mitte, Urban Sports Club, regular team events.

Diversity and Inclusion

About us

Most battery storage projects in Germany do not fail on the battery. They stall at the grid connection, the permit or the engineering in between. Scale Energy exists to remove those bottlenecks.

We are a Berlin team that plans, permits and delivers battery storage for industrial sites, solar and wind parks and utilities. We combine deep engineering know-how with AI-enabled workflows to take storage projects from the first idea to the grid connection faster and at scale. Backed by Climentum Capital, Vireo and Antler.