Company Overview
Driven by our vision of the affordable, reliable, net-zero carbon grid of the future, Mainspring has developed a new category of power generation — the linear generator — that delivers local, scalable, and fuel-flexible power to help accelerate the transition to the net-zero carbon grid.
The unique combination of attributes offered by Mainspring’s linear generator enables applications on both the commercial and utility sides of the meter for the $816B global electricity equipment market. We serve a wide range of Fortune 500 customers across markets and industries as well as top-tier utilities and other gridside providers.
We are looking to build relationships with people who share our values:
- Pragmatic Optimism. Building a new category of world-class power generation requires the optimism of ambition and creativity, balanced with practicality to solve problems efficiently. The challenges that arise are opportunities for growth.
- Excellence without Ego. We bring expertise and commitment to creating the best customer experience, from sales to deployment and service, just as we apply deep technical rigor to building and delivering world-class products. We strive for excellence and behave as leaders with the humility to acknowledge our challenges, both collectively and as individual contributors.
- Proactive Collaboration. The integration and cross-disciplinary nature of Mainspring’s business requires intentionally seeking out others who bring different skills, perspectives, and priorities. Our culture of inclusion and respect extends beyond our team to interactions with our partners and customers.
Mainspring is based in Menlo Park and has partnered with top-tier investors and utilities such as Khosla Ventures, Bill Gates, NextEra, and American Electric Power. More information can be found at www.mainspringenergy.com.
Responsibilities
Mainspring Energy’s revolutionary linear generator is a sophisticated robot. Inside the generator is a network of computers combining embedded Linux and real-time bare metal applications. These orchestrate the critical tasks of shaping control signals and collecting data from a wide variety of sensors which make this technology possible. Our embedded platform is rapidly evolving, and we need great managers to lead the engineering team that continues to expand the existing platform and shape the next generation system. If you love designing and building systems, leading people to solve challenging technological problems and improve the way things are done to ensure a high quality product, then we need you!
This is a managing role for an embedded software team.
As a Leader In The Organization You Will
- Lead a team of embedded software engineers that develops and maintains embedded software for different components of the product
- Collaborate with TPMs and PMs on planning and requirement definition to prioritize tasks for the team (and company)
- Create feature roadmaps and allocate resources
- Ensure on-time delivery of high-quality embedded software by assigning tasks, setting priorities and tracking progress.
- Provide architectural guidance and oversight to drive software reliability, extensibility and maintainability
- Participate in technical reviews for new design ideas
- Coordinate the integration of supplier sub-systems, including defining requirements and interfaces as well as leading software technical communication
- Collaborate with Controls and Electrical to drive integrated hardware/software projects from initial research to product release
- Contribute to the architecture definition of various parts of the system
- Define, implement and ensure compliance with processes and best-practices for the overall software development life cycle
- Lead the team through the process of certifying safety-critical components of the system
- Mentor and supervise members of the team
- Recruit top engineering talent to grow the embedded software team
- Assess employee performance and provide feedback
Critically, you should enjoy doing these things collaboratively as part of a tightly-coupled and highly interactive team.
Qualifications
You have...
- Several years experience programming for embedded hardware systems including design, implementation, architecture, and testing (real-time a plus)
- Experience leading a team to build high quality products
- Passion for software engineering best practices (preferably in C++)
- Project experience in software development for safety critical systems
- Experience with supplier or customer interactions
- Experience with system architecture definition and system design
- Experience with requirements engineering
- Drive to close issues and the track record to prove it (and open them when you find them)
The Bay Area salary for this role is $xxk - $xxk base + pre-IPO stock options + benefits. This position is on-site in Menlo Park, CA. The salary will be adjusted based on the experience of the employee.
Does your experience not meet all of our posted requirements? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to positions unless they meet every listed requirement. At Mainspring, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, flexible, and collaborative environment, so if you want to help us transition the world to clean and affordable electricity, and don’t meet all posted requirements for a particular role, we’d still love to hear from you. Mainspring can sometimes be flexible enough to shift responsibilities for the right person, or otherwise identify open or upcoming roles that may better fit your professional background.
In more traditional words, Mainspring Energy, Inc is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
This compensation and benefits information is based on Mainspring Energy's estimate as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future. We generally do not negotiate on salary once we have made an offer. The level of pay within the range will depend on a variety of job-related factors that may include location, relevant prior experience and/or education, or particular skills and expertise. New hires joining the company tend to be paid within the starting base pay range noted above, with opportunities to increase pay over time based on development of additional skills, competencies, and company-specific knowledge.