R&D Infrastructure Software Engineering Co-op, Span.IO
January- June 2025
The hourly rate for this role is $32/hr for undergrad students, and $35/hr for Masters or PhD students
Electrical equipment manufacturing
Open for applications
Electrical equipment manufacturing
201-500 employees
Open for applications
The hourly rate for this role is $32/hr for undergrad students, and $35/hr for Masters or PhD students
201-500 employees
Company mission
To enable homes to get clean energy faster, cheaper and more easily. Impacting climate change is our passion.
Role
Who you are
- We value creative approaches to solving problems, and encourage building up new skills along the way
- Candidates must be enrolled in an accredited college or university, and have not graduated prior to end of the co-op term
- Good programming skills in one or more of Python, C, Rust, Node/Typescript
- Experience developing, deploying, and maintaining web and database applications
- Experience setting up and managing Linux-based systems, complete familiarity with common administration tasks, shell commands, package management etc
- Able to collaborate effectively with coworkers in shared codebases, including competency with software versioning and documentation systems
Desirable
- Familiarity with deploying and managing cloud-based services (including user management, security, permissions, roles)
- Experience developing functional front ends for internally-facing applications
- Experience building containerized applications
- Experience implementing low-level interfaces and protocols (serial, RS485, Modbus, etc)
- Experience with publish-subscribe communication methods such as MQTT
- Familiarity with embedded device firmware development (small Linux devices, microcontrollers)
- Experience with industrial devices and protocols, laboratory test gear and protocols
- Familiarity with electrical and electronic system concepts, high and low voltage wiring, understanding electrical measurements
What the job involves
- As a software engineer on the R&D Infrastructure Team, you will implement mission-critical internal platforms enabling control, monitoring, and analysis of various experimental and test efforts
- Your creative solutions will weave sensors, metrics, and logs into an accessible framework for capturing and understanding physical measurements
- While exploring concepts from microcontroller analog sampling to cloud services, your work will have a daily impact on Span’s current and future products
- Develop and maintain flexible internally-facing web and backend applications for essential system management and fleet service tasks
- Assist with development of reliable data collection, processing, exploration, and presentation for long-term hardware test monitoring and alerts
- Assist with fast-response control and monitoring software for prototyping and short-term hardware/software research efforts
- Provide general assistance to other teams where cross-functional knowledge is needed
- Develop useful interfaces and drivers for physical test hardware and integrate incoming data sources with our monitoring and analysis platforms
- The co-op position has a duration of 6 months and will run from January- June 2025
Our take
Span helps homeowners looking to improve their energy resilience by replacing electric panels, many of them decades old, with a flexible smart panel that helps users monitor and control their energy usage from a single app.
Founded in just 2018, Span has made great strides in both price and technological development and has won the International Builders' Show 2022 Best Energy Efficient Product award for its Gen 2 smart Panel. Significant funding rounds have propelled product development, including a future-looking integration of its equipment with that of solar inverter, battery, and EV charger manufacturers.
This fast-developing and innovative answer to a previously stagnant home energy feature directly caters to the increasing demand for energy efficiency in the home. This is exemplified by a 2024 partnership with PulteGroup, the third-largest homebuilder in the US. With CEO Arch Rao at the helm, previously head of Products, Application & Sales Engineering at Tesla, Span seems likely to continue on its winning streak with increasingly affordable renewable energy products.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2023
$96m
SERIES B
Mar 2022
$90m
SERIES B
Total funding: $229.8m
Company benefits
- Competitive compensation and early equity at a well-funded, fast-growing, venture-backed company (read more on why Amazon and others invested in SPAN here and here)
- A sunny 20,000 sqft hardware lab + office space in SOMA, a stone’s throw from Caltrain and close to BART
- Flexible hours and vacation time - we simultaneously work hard and make space for the important stuff
- Additional SPAN holidays in celebration of causes we believe in (i.e. Black History Day, Women’s History Day, Earth Day and Gay Pride & Juneteenth among others)
- Comprehensive benefits include a choice of medical plans; dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
- Diversity - we are serious about this. SPAN embraces diversity and equal opportunity in a serious way. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds,
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Arch Padmanabhan Rao
(Founder & CEO )After graduating from Stanford with an MS in Mechanical Engineering, Arch was an Energy Consultant for LCG Consulting and Technical Advisor for The Westly Group. They co-founded Verdigris, which used AI to eliminate electricity waste and was the Head of Products, Application and Sales engineering at Tesla Motors before founding Span.
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