Span is hiring a
Senior Systems Integration Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Senior Systems Integration Engineer at SPAN, a startup in San Francisco. The role involves ensuring products perform to desired specifications and managing the complexity of design, implementation, and test of integrations. The employee will work cross-functionally with various teams, take point on lab testing, reproduce and root-cause issues, and more.

Requirements

• Interpersonal skills: Communication -- can convey complex ideas for a variety of audiences in written, diagrammatic, and verbal formats
• Interpersonal skills: 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 with line voltage or high voltage DC (400-600 VDC: ESS, Solar, Level 3+ EVSE charging)
• First-rate understanding of electromagnetism, 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.)

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
• 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

Preferred 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

Benefits

• 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 six (6) months 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 unlimited PTO