Hardware Test Engineer, Span.IO
$76-120k
Salary dependent on location + Equity
Electrical equipment manufacturing
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Electrical equipment manufacturing
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$76-120k
Salary dependent on location + 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
- Bachelors in a technical discipline (ME or EE preferred) with 2+ years of test engineering experience
- Prior experience working alongside test technicians or contract technicians to build test setups and execute tests
- Independent ability to solve engineering problems
- Knowledge of electrical and electromechanical systems
- Ability to collaborate with the team to present complex topics
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
Desirable
- Masters degree in ME or EE
- Basic Python programming skills
- Prior experience supervising junior test technicians
- Experience with high voltage systems and equipment
What the job involves
- We are seeking a driven hardware test engineer who will work on our cutting-edge product development and cost down projects on our existing products
- You will be on a team of high caliber hardware test and reliability engineers with the opportunity to learn and grow with SPAN
- In this position, you will be:
- An integral part of the hardware engineering team
- Responsible for planning and executing hardware tests
- Responsible for planning and executing component qualification tests
- Be a versatile hands on player with the ability to dive into test coordination, rig design and build, test execution, post test characterization and failure analysis
- Work collaboratively within the hardware engineering organization and interface with other functions as needed within SPAN
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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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 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
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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