Mainspring Energy hiring Automation Engineer - MFG SW Automation Group in Menlo Park, California, United States | LinkedIn (2024)

Company OverviewDriven 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 local, scalable, and fuel-flexible power to help accelerate the transition to the net-zero carbon grid.

The unique combination of attributes offered by Mainspring’s linear generator enables applications on both the commercial 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 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.

ResponsibilitiesMainspring Energy is looking for a passionate hands-on manufacturing automation software engineer to join the manufacturing automation group. This is an exciting opportunity to collaborate with various engineering groups but not limited to software and controls, test, manufacturing, R&D, Cloud and DevOps.

The Manufacturing Software Automation group delivers solutions to our factory and our contract manufacturers globally by optimizing processes and enhancing productivity through automation. These systems are essential for seamless, scalable and compliant production and manufacturing of the novel linear generator.

A successful candidate would be a highly driven, self-starter with experience in manufacturing automation software development life cycle and processes with good command and understanding of business processes.

The role is based at Mainspring Headquarters in Menlo Park, California and is primarily on-site with minimal travel within North America.

As an automation engineer in the Manufacturing Software group, you will

• Design and program automation software applications and software systems used in manufacturing of linear generators
• Collaborate with test and product engineers to convert the test requirements into optimized test plans and automate them
• Work on projects that include rapid designing, building, testing and implementation of solutions iteratively which would include user interfaces, process control logic on modern web and console based applications
• Integrate different equipment in the factory to L3 & L4 of the ISA 95 pyramid such as manufacturing execution systems, local and cloud databases
• Deploy and maintain software & firmware on manufacturing servers, as well as manage databases

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree or equivalent in engineering fields such as controls, mechatronics, computer science or systems engineering
• At least 2 years or more experience in designing, developing and supporting object-oriented based industrial software applications
• Experience with common software development tools such as TestRail/ Xray, GitLab/ Jira, or similar
• Experience with programming and scripting languages (Python, Java, C, C++, Unix-Shell, etc)
• Understanding of virtualization and dockerization technologies
• Hands-on experience with data acquisition systems, sensors and controllers is a plus
• Manufacturing automation experience is a plus

The Bay Area salary for this role is $110k-$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.

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.