Mainspring Energy
Vice President, Electrical Engineering
Menlo Park, CA · Exec
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About the role
- The company began commercial shipments of its Mainspring Linear Generators in 2020 and today has hundreds of megawatts in advanced development and field operations for leading Fortune 500 companies, data centers, and utilities.
- They must also have significant practical experience bringing power electronics to market, with a good understanding of high volume manufacturing and attaining high quality and reliability at low cost.
- This position reports to the SVP of Engineering, and is expected to be onsite at least 60% of the time.
Responsibilities
- Experience designing complex systems that require complex engineering, risk, cost, and requirements tradeoffs to co-optimize across a wide variety of disciplines, e.g. firmware/software, thermal, mechanical, electrical, supply chain, reliability, systems, etc.
- Thrives in a fast-paced startup environment - building the company while building the product
Requirements
- Degree electrical engineering with 16+ years of experience, including 10+ years managing multi-disciplinary engineering teams
- Proven success growing and managing technical teams
Compensation
- 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.
Benefits
- Mainspring can sometimes be flexible enough to
Equal opportunity
- In more traditional words, Mainspring Energy, Inc is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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