Job description
R&D Test Engineer
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 onsite, fuel-flexible power to help accelerate the transition to the future grid.
The unique combination of attributes offered by Mainspring’s linear generator enables applications on both the customer 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 is backed by top-tier venture and strategic investors such as Khosla Ventures, Bill Gates, American Electric Power, and Centrica Innovations. More information can be found at www.mainspringenergy.com.
Responsibilities
The Linear Generator is a sophisticated, automated, and integrated system spanning a wide range of engineering disciplines including thermodynamics, mechanical, electrical, software, and controls. This position will lead, design, perform, and analyze experiments on our Linear Generators as part of a dynamic test engineering team. This includes hands-on work and operation on our Linear Generator prototypes and test system, debugging, and advanced data analysis aimed at improving our product.
You will lead impactful R&D efforts and drive them to completion. This position is on the Test Team with a strong focus on improving our product using data, crafting impactful experiments and analyses, and making our data accessible to the company at large. This role will require strong collaboration across the entire engineering and business organization
The breadth of this role is perfect for an engineer or researcher who wants to use their advanced experimental and analytical skills in a fast-paced product development environment. We are looking for an ambitious and curious individual excited to work at the interface of mechanical engineering, systems engineering, data science, and software engineering.
This is a test engineering role with an emphasis on leading R&D projects.
As a member of the team, you will:
- Lead complete research and development projects in collaboration with engineering teams, including planning, experimental design and preparation, execution, analysis, and communication of final results
- Provide insights about the performance and reliability of our linear generators using time series data across our fleet of linear generators
- Formulate, lead, and facilitate complex data analysis projects.
- In collaboration with the software team, support the development of a scalable data platform architecture and data flow
Qualifications
You have ...
- Experience conducting or leading experimental R&D projects
- Experience with complex dynamic energy systems, or similar products
- Experience with data analysis e.g. ETL, time-series data, cloud tools, industry standard tools, or custom tools of your own
- Sufficient language knowledge, or polyglotism, to navigate data platforms in Python3 and other languages
The Bay Area salary for this role is $90k-$118k 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.
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