Senior Mechanical Engineering Manager, Span.IO
$175-230k
Electrical equipment manufacturing
Open for applications
Electrical equipment manufacturing
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$175-230k
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
- BS in Mechanical Engineering or a similar field
- Have 10+ years of experience developing hardware products for production. You have seen the full production cycle from ideation to manufacturing on multiple products. 3+ years leading direct reports
- Have experience in static/dynamic structural, modal and thermal analysis using hand calculations as well as FEA software
- Effectively communicate technical concepts, ideas and knowledge to other team members, including mentoring junior members of the team
- Significant experience in Solidworks 3D CAD, 2D detailed drawings
- Hands-on approach to hardware bring-up, whether it be building a prototype or performing testing
- Experience working closely with contract manufacturers and leading design for manufacturing
- Remain engaged, proactive and positive in tough circumstances, owning assignments and taking full accountability for overall team success
- Are passionate about renewable energy and energy storage
Desirable
- Experience leading a team, guiding multiple programs to success from the concept stage through manufacturing, applying a disciplined project development methodology
- Experience developing performance validation, environmental testing, and reliability testing
- Knowledge of national and international safety and regulatory requirements such as UL, National Electric Code(NEC), IEC, and ISO
- Design experience with products that connect to the electrical grid, NEMA 3R enclosures, and/or complex thermal requirements
What the job involves
- As a mechanical engineering manager, you will lead the execution of multiple programs and be accountable for meeting timelines and milestones
- Lead a mechanical engineering team of ~5 and oversee the development of the mechanical engineering for tight product schedules
- Grow the ME program at Span to support development of mulitple new product developments and sustaining projects simultaneously
- Set and measure goals for the mechanical engineering team. Lead mentoring and leadership growth
- Support executive staff with business analysis of research and development projects and manufacturing options e.g. outsource versus internal to Span and which components are ripe for vertical integration
- Define system architecture and create engineering requirements for components and systems
- Collaborate with internal and external teams
- Hands-on hardware analysis, bring-up, and thermal optimization
- Work with contract manufacturers to have parts made to specification, to improve quality, and to improve yield
- Own full product lifecycle: specification, design, prototype, certification, reliability, validation, and manufacturing
- Step in to support IC work when needed - Designing and modeling components and assemblies, building, design validation, working with the part and assembly suppliers, etc
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 Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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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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