Electrical Engineering Manager - Mainspring Energy, Inc.

Company Overview

Mainspring Energy is revolutionizing power generation with the world’s most flexible and adaptable onsite power generator, the Mainspring Linear Generator. Commercial, industrial, and utility leaders are choosing Mainspring over traditional options like engines, turbines, and fuel cells to quickly and reliably deliver local power for EV charging, commercial facilities, data centers, and grid-scale operations. The Mainspring Linear Generator is fuel flexible, ramps up and down to meet demand, and utilizes a flameless technology with near-zero NOx emissions.

Backed by top-tier investors such as Khosla Ventures, Bill Gates, American Electric Power, and Lightrock, Mainspring designs, manufactures and delivers its products to customers across the U.S. today, and we’re quickly scaling for international expansion.

Inspired by our vision of the affordable, reliable, net-zero carbon grid, Mainspring is rapidly expanding within the $816B global electricity equipment market, and we’re hiring the best talent to meet growing customer demand around the globe. We welcome a broad range of backgrounds, experiences, and talents to bring fresh perspectives and ongoing innovation to our customers.

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

The technology that powers Mainspring’s Linear Generator is unlike any other generator technology on the market. The Linear Generator relies on innovative electrical power and control hardware systems to achieve its best-in-class efficiency while meeting the world’s strictest emissions requirements. These hardware systems are designed by a talented team of engineers that own hardware design from initial concept through test and manufacturing.

Mainspring has a high impact opportunity to lead the electrical engineering team that is responsible for the Linear Generator’s power delivery and integration into customers’ power systems. In this role, you will…

• Lead a team of electrical engineers responsible for: hardware design, integration and testing (grid tie inverters, high voltage DC bus filtering and protection), microgrid testing, power systems modeling (PSCAD), R&D testing enablement, and more!

• Troubleshoot complex hardware and integration problems that arise in the R&D lab, production floor, and field units

• Develop a microgrid testing platform, capable of integrating and testing multiple generation assets

• Build out Mainspring’s power systems modeling and analysis capabilities, using software like PSCAD, to support internal and customer simulation needs

• Lead the team to define engineering requirements, facilitate trade studies to make key architectural decisions, and deliver hardware designs and validation plans to scale manufacturing of the Linear Generator

• Define and improve the processes that ensure that designs are robust and reliable, and can successfully be transferred to supply chain and manufacturing

• Drive design for manufacturability, design for test, design for supply chain procurement at volume, and design for lower cost

• Collaborate with the mechanical, controls, software, test, manufacturing and operations teams to deliver electrical hardware solutions to production and to customers

• Wear many different hats, including people manager, technical lead, and engineering program manager

Qualifications

• Multiple years of experience leading a high performing and happy team of engineers, and have a passion for doing so

• Experience in the full hardware development life cycle, from requirements development to commercial launch

• Technical expertise and hands on experience with high voltage (480VAC and 800VDC) electrical systems

• A strong understanding and track record of transferring designs to manufacturing

• A bachelor’s degree, or higher, in Electrical Engineering or related field

This is a hybrid position (on-site + remote) and will require you to be on-site as required to perform testing, troubleshooting, manufacturing support, etc.

The Bay Area salary for this role is $160k-$185k base + pre-IPO stock options + benefits. This position can be hybrid. The salary will be adjusted to reflect local market conditions based on employee location as well as 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.