Senior Systems Integration Engineer

Our Mission  SPAN is enabling electrification for all ⚡

SPAN is mission-driven to design, build, and deploy products that electrify our built environment, decarbonize our world, and slow the effects of climate change.

• Decarbonization is the process to reduce or remove greenhouse gas emissions, especially carbon dioxide, from entering our atmosphere.

• Electrification is the process of replacing fossil fuel appliances that run on gas or oil with all-electric upgrades for a cleaner way to power our lives.

At SPAN, we believe in:

• Enabling homes and vehicles powered by clean energy

• Making electrification upgrades possible

• Building more resilient homes with reliable backup

• Designing a flexible and distributed electrical grid

The Role

• The Systems Integration & Test Team owns the verification and validation of the entire system as well as key testing infrastructure for the entire organization.

• As a systems integration engineer your responsibility would be to ensure that our products perform to desired specifications and that integrations meet the needs of internal and external stakeholders. As SPAN expands its product offerings and third party integrations, the Systems Team will play an increasingly critical role in managing the complexity of design, implementation, and test — allowing us to rapidly scale while increasing our velocity and improving the quality of our products. You will be a part of our new product integration pipeline and will be responsible for ensuring the successful integration of our ever-expanding product line.

• Responsibilities:

  • Work cross-functionally with the product, firmware and software teams to design integration plans: review requirements, write test plans, design test rigs, automate testing. This will be a mix of planning and hands-on execution work.

  • Take point on lab testing: verify that systems work; try to break things; characterize the integrated system (e.g. response time)

  • Reproduce and root-cause issues; work with the other teams to develop and test fixes

  • Note: We’re a startup, so while this list is broad, it’s still just a start; you’ll end up wearing many hats during your time at SPAN.

About You

Required Qualifications:

• Interpersonal skills: 

  • Communication -- can convey complex ideas for a variety of audiences in written, diagrammatic, and verbal formats.

  • Collaborative spirit -- can work independently within a team and cross functionally across multiple disciplines.

  • Thirst for knowledge -- excited to learn new things and dive deep at the edge and outside of one's comfort zone

• Bachelor’s degree in related program such as electrical engineering, or equivalent experience

• 3+ years' experience working with hardware systems, power electronics, and electrical engineering fundamentals; comfort reading PCBA schematics

• Experience with command line interface (CLI) tools and general linux comfort

• Comfort using and reasoning about all manner of communications protocols (REST, CAN, Modbus, etc)

• Extensive experience using oscilloscopes and other electrical instrumentation (logic analyzer, power analyzer, etc)

• Solid hands-on electrical skills (wiring, soldering, etc.)

Bonus Qualifications:

• Experience working with doing remote troubleshooting/diagnostics

• professional hands-on experience with energy storage, inverter, EVSE, or similar hardware products (testing, firmware/hardware development, or systems integration)

• Experience programming in Python, Javascript, other scripting languages

• Numerical programming experience (PANDAS, R, MATLAB)

• Comfort working with embedded systems — reading source code, reasoning about state machines, etc.

• Experience with residential electrical systems

• Comfort working with SQL and data visualization tools

• A hacker’s instinct for making things work

Life at SPAN

Headquartered in San Francisco’s vibrant SoMa neighborhood, we are an eclectic group of creative thinkers who value open communication, teamwork, and a ‘make it happen’ approach to addressing complex challenges. 

SPAN embraces diversity and equal opportunity in a serious way. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. 

We’re hiring talented individuals who are driven by success and are passionate about shaping the future of renewable energy. If that sounds like you, we’d love for you to consider joining the rapidly growing team at SPAN.

The Perks:

⚡ Competitive compensation + equity grants at a well-funded, venture-backed company

⚡ Comprehensive benefits: 100% employee premiums for base plans on medical, dental, vision with options for additional coverage.  Parental leave up to twenty four (24)  weeks depending on eligibility

⚡ Comfortable, sunny office space located near BART and Caltrain public transit

⚡ Strong focus on team building and company culture: Employee Resource Groups, monthly social events, SPANcakes recognition breakfast, lunch, and learns

⚡ Flexible hours, one holiday per month, and flexible time off

Interested in joining our team? Apply today and we’ll be in touch with the next steps!