Reliability Engineering Internship, Span.IO
Summer 2025
The hourly rate for this role is $32/ hour for undergrad students, and $35/hr for Masters or PhD students
Electrical equipment manufacturing
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Electrical equipment manufacturing
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
The hourly rate for this role is $32/ hour 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
- Working towards a BS or MS in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or related field
- Experience running reliability tests including environmental, mechanical, and electrical stress testing.
- Experience with analysis of test results
- Experience with high-level coding languages such as Python for scripting or data analysis
- Hands-on experience building test setups and using instrumentation
- Hands-on approach, whether it be building a prototype or performing testing
- Excited about digging into complex problems and seeing them through to solutions
- Passionate about renewable energy and energy storage!
- The Internship position has a duration of 12 weeks and will start in May or June of 2024. Candidates must be enrolled in an accredited college or university, and have not graduated prior to end of the Internship term
Desirable
- Experience designing for solar or renewable energy applications
- Experience working safely with high voltage equipment (up to 600-1000V)
- Experience working with and testing AC and/or DC power systems
What the job involves
- The Span engineering team is made of experienced, passionate people with expertise in electronics, mechanical design, energy systems, and embedded software
- We are seeking a passionate mechanical or electrical engineering student to join the hardware development team of SPAN
- As a reliability engineering intern, you will apply your knowledge of electrical and mechanical system failures to assist Span’s hardware design, testing, and manufacturing efforts
- The engineering challenges we face at Span apply to various industries, with engineering challenges similar to climate tech, consumer electronics, and construction industries
- Compared to other climate tech companies, Span offers the ability to work on a project that is out of the “science phase” and in the engineering execution phase, so you will be working to deliver from prototype to product
- Create reliability test setups and own them from concept, design, manufacturing, and testing
- Write reliability test plans and see them through test execution, data analysis and reporting results
- Interface with cross-functional teams such as mechanical engineering, software engineering, firmware engineering, and products to define test specifications
- Read datasheets and analyze electrical component specifications for design for reliability
- Own the build out of our in-house reliability lab, you will procure and develop test equipment to support testing on our current and future products
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
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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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