Device Software Engineer, SPAN
Gateway
$147-210k
+ Equity
Electrical equipment manufacturing
Job no longer available
Electrical equipment manufacturing
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$147-210k
+ Equity
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 look for friendly, motivated engineers who enjoy working with their peers to drive impact and move the business forward
- 8 or more years of experience writing software for a hardware device (on a microcontroller, and/or in Linux, etc) in C/C++, Rust, and/or Python
- Strong fundamentals in modern software design coupled with awareness of concerns like manual memory management
- Experience working with standard electrical communication interfaces like UART, I2C, USB, etc
- Exceptional interpersonal communication and collaboration skills. Great at building trust and driving decisions to a resolution
- Track record of taking ownership of projects and willingness to help others with theirs, from design and code review through to mentorship of new employees
Desirable
- Experience with the STM32 microcontroller family
- Experience with functional safety and processes and standards like UL 60730, ISO 26262, IEC 61508, and UL 1998
- Experience writing higher level system or application software such as diagnostic command line tools or the application side of a communication interface
- Wireless technologies like WiFi, Bluetooth and Zigbee
- Hands-on experience with electronics lab equipment
- Experience with clean energy hardware in a multidisciplinary environment
What the job involves
- Engineers on this team work directly with the broader cross-functional strategic team including product, mobile software, cloud software, and hardware
- As a Senior Staff Firmware Engineer you will have the opportunity to be the engineering owner for new strategic initiatives that impact any of our hardware components from microcontrollers up through application stack in embedded Linux
- This can include everything from bootloaders on systems without an OS up through applications in C and C++ inside an RTOS, to system services and applications written in Rust and Python in embedded Linux
- Hardware products are central to SPAN’s business and writing firmware for even our smallest microcontrollers means working on something that directly impacts the user experience
- Integrations with smart networked third party home energy devices: work across teams to define MVP, manage external partners, define architecture, and lead the implementation
- The regulatory frameworks that govern our electrical systems and devices are updated from time to time
- In some cases, changes here may create market demand for electrical products
- To unlock new markets, we may work with our product and certification teams to design new features or capabilities and lead the implementation
- We are always looking for ways to bring additional value to our customers and the strategic team is generally responsible for delivering these products and features
- For example, a new SPAN Drive charge mode may help customers save on their electricity bills and get more out of their existing solar panels
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 2018, SPAN has made great strides in both price and technological development and won the International Builders' Show 2022 Best Energy Efficient Product award for its Gen 2 smart Panel. Alongside this, 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 home-energy solution directly responds to rising demand for efficiency, a momentum first highlighted by SPAN's 2024 partnership with PulteGroup. That progress has continues with the launch of two new models (the SPAN Panel MAIN 16 and MLO 24) which expand the company's lineup and offer more affordable, flexible options for projects like solar, EV charging, and home electrification. Together, with existing panels, these additions reinforce SPAN's mission to deliver, smart, scalable energy systems.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
37% employee growth in 12 months
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
- Comprehensive benefits
- Team building and career growth
- Flexible paid time off
Company HQ
Potrero Hill, San Francisco, CA
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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