Senior Reliability Engineer, Span.IO
$140-190k
+ Equity
Electrical equipment manufacturing
Open for applications
Electrical equipment manufacturing
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$140-190k
+ 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
- BS or MS in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering (or related field)
- 5 - 7 years experience developing and running reliability tests including environmental, mechanical, and electrical stress testing.
- Experience with analysis of test results including statistical analysis techniques
- Experience with scripting languages, particularly Python
- Hands-on approach whether it be building a prototype or performing testing
- Hands-on experience building test setups and using instrumentation
- Ability to understand and discuss the electromagnetism, electronics, and material physics fundamentals underlying hardware reliability and safety
Desirable
- Experience leading projects with a diverse team under tight timelines
- Experience working safely with high voltage equipment (up to 600-1000V)
- Experience working with and testing AC and/or DC power systems
- Knowledge of national and international safety and regulatory requirements such as UL, National Electric Code (NEC), IEC, and ISO
- Experience with root cause analysis (RCA) of field failures
What the job involves
- Span is seeking an experienced and driven electrical engineer to lead the reliability program for Span through all stages of development
- In this role, you will rely on your past experience to develop a comprehensive reliability test program for new products and support any reliability issues that arise in the field
- You will work with the electrical, mechanical, and systems teams to implement test plans, build out our in-house testing capabilities, and work with outside labs as needed
- As the company grows, you will build out and manage our reliability team
- Own Span’s DFR (Design for Reliability), determine appropriate reliability targets, develop usage models, create DFMEA, test specs, test planning and reliability plan for the Span panel, Span Drive, and future products
- Determine test strategies that optimize for product reliability, DFMEA-based risk mitigations, test team resources, and program schedules
- Work with Engineers to develop test plans
- Operate tests using Linux command line and use basic Python coding to support test logging and data analysis and presentation
- Conduct testing in areas including the validation of material properties, design structure, thermal performance, ingress performance, antenna performance, and electrical safety
- Collaborate with internal and external teams to design and execute product and component level reliability testing including hands on testing with real hardware
- Conduct test data analysis, clearly communicate test results, and collaborate with design engineers to resolve issues detected in testing
- 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
- Build and mentor the hardware reliability engineering team
- Manage relationships with 3rd party testing facilities
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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