Staff/ 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 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.)

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

The U.S. base salary range for this position is $145,000-$175,000 plus benefits and equity. This range represents SPAN’s good faith estimate of competitively-priced salary for the role based on national, real-time industry data from companies of a similar growth stage. This range reflects minimum and maximum new hire salaries for the role across US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by location and individual factors including relevant skills, experience and education or training. This range correlates to the relative level of the candidate we believe we need for the role and may require an adjustment for candidates of a different level. 

Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the location this role is based during the hiring process.