Amperesand
Staff Software Engineer
Reno, Nevada, United States · Staff+ · Full-time
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About the role
- At Amperesand, you will lead the design and development of a scalable, robust distributed test framework in Golang that automates test systems across our labs and manufacturing lines, accelerating prototype validation and ramping high-volume production.
- You'll own the technical direction of our test software, set engineering standards, and mentor the team.
- Your hardware background lets you design efficient, accurate test systems for our Solid State Transformer and integrate them with manufacturing systems.
Responsibilities
- Drive end-to-end test software development from design through deployment and post-deployment improvements, building in ease of validation and maintenance.
- Innovate test system design by collaborating with electrical, mechanical, firmware, and manufacturing teams, and provide feedback to improve product quality.
- Lead and mentor the software team: establish development standards, foster a strong code review culture, and drive adoption across the team.
- Travel to facilities worldwide to collaborate with teams and deploy our solutions.
- 6+ years designing and building scalable software for distributed systems, with demonstrated technical leadership on complex projects.
- Deep expertise in system-level languages (Golang, Rust, C, C++, etc.) with excellent software fundamentals: architectural design, algorithms, data structures, modularity, and maintainability.
- Proven ability to mentor engineers, build team depth, and drive adoption of engineering standards.
Requirements
- Strong hardware background: experience with electrical hardware, microcontrollers, and communication protocols (CAN, SPI, I2C, etc.), sufficient to design efficient, accurate test systems.
Compensation
- Competitive Salary + Incentive Stock Options
Benefits
- Competitive Salary + Incentive Stock Options
- Group medical, hospitalisation and surgical insurance, outpatient or GP
Company info
- We are facing a once-in-a-generation opportunity for infrastructure disruption.
- Scalable in-house advanced manufacturing capability is our foundation for meeting timeline and quality expectation to serve infrastructure customers around the world.
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