Systems Integration Engineer

OUR MISSION SPAN is enabling electrification for all ⚡ WE ARE A MISSION-DRIVEN COMPANY DESIGNING, BUILDING, AND DEPLOYING PRODUCTS THAT ELECTRIFY THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT, REDUCE CARBON EMISSIONS, AND SLOW THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE. - Decarbonization is the process to reduce or remove greenhouse gas emissions, especially carbon dioxide, from entering our atmosphere. - Electrification is the process of replacing fossil fuel appliances that run on gas or oil with all-electric upgrades for a cleaner way to power our lives. AT SPAN, WE BELIEVE IN: - Enabling homes and vehicles powered by clean energy - Making electrification upgrades possible - Building more resilient homes with reliable backup - Designing a flexible and distributed electrical grid THE ROLE The Systems Integration & Test Team owns the verification and validation of the entire system as well as key testing infrastructure for the entire organization. As a staff systems integration engineer your responsibility would be to ensure that our products perform to desired specifications and that integrations meet the needs of internal and external stakeholders. As SPAN expands its product offerings and third party integrations, the Systems Team will play an increasingly critical role in managing the complexity of design, implementation, and test — allowing us to rapidly scale while increasing our velocity and improving the quality of our products. You will be a part of our new product integration pipeline and will be responsible for ensuring the successful integration of our ever-expanding product line. RESPONSIBILITIES Work cross-functionally with the product, firmware and software teams to design integration plans: review requirements and provide feedback, write test plans, estimate timelines and define deliverables, design test rigs, define regression cases and automate testing. This will be a mix of planning and hands-on execution work. Take point on lab testing: Define integration test strategy, verify that the systems work as expected; try to break things; characterize the integrated system (e.g. response time) Reproduce and root-cause issues; work with the other teams to develop and test fixes Note: We’re a startup, so while this list is broad, it’s still just a start; you’ll end up wearing many hats during your time at SPAN. ABOUT YOU REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS - Interpersonal skills: - Communication -- can convey complex ideas for a variety of audiences in written, diagrammatic, and verbal formats. - Collaborative spirit -- can work independently within a team and cross functionally across multiple disciplines. - Thirst for knowledge -- excited to learn new things and dive deep at the edge and outside of one's comfort zone - Bachelor’s degree in related program such as electrical engineering, or equivalent experience - 5+ years' experience working with hardware systems, power electronics, and electrical engineering fundamentals; comfort reading PCBA schematics - 3+ years with formal systems engineering processes - 2+ years experience experience with command line interface (CLI) tools, test automation frameworks like pytest, and general linux comfort - 2+ years experience with communications protocols (REST, CAN, Modbus, etc) - Extensive experience using oscilloscopes and other electrical instrumentation (logic analyzer, power analyzer, etc) - Solid hands-on electrical skills (residential wiring, soldering, etc.) BONUS QUALIFICATIONS - Experience working with doing remote troubleshooting/diagnostics - professional hands-on experience with energy storage, inverter, EVSE, or similar hardware products (testing, firmware/hardware development, or systems integration) - Experience programming in Python, Javascript, other scripting languages - Numerical programming experience (PANDAS, R, MATLAB) - Comfort working with embedded systems — reading source code, reasoning about state machines, etc. - Experience with residential electrical systems - Comfort working with SQL and da