Staff Device Software Engineer (Platform)
Company: Span
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: April 19, 2024
|
|
Job Description:
Our Mission
SPAN develops products that accelerate the rapid adoption of
renewable energy in the home. The flagship SPAN Smart Panel is the
first true evolution for the traditional home electric panel,
harnessing enhanced technology for metering, monitoring, and
control. An expanded product suite of intelligent, integrated
solutions radically lowers the cost and complexity of energy
upgrades-including solar, batteries and EVs-empowering homeowners
to be active, resilient and informed players in the energy
market.
The Role
The Device Software Platform Team maintains the embedded Linux
platform powering SPAN's hardware products in energy metering, load
management, and EV charging. As a staff engineer on the team, you
will:
Partner with teams across SPAN - embedded software, electrical
design, systems engineering, data science, and cloud infrastructure
- to prioritize and build new capabilities for our embedded
platform.
Build new tools, libraries, and development workflows to support
reliable, high-velocity development of SPAN's power management
behavior and 3rd-party battery storage integrations.
Advise product-focused engineering teams on best practices for
building observable and reliable application software that runs
well at scale.
Representative Projects
Design and implement an application communication suite spanning a
diversity of protocols/physical interfaces (e.g., USB, serial,
CAN-FD, power-line communications, wireless) and support
application SDKs in Rust, Python, and C++.
Overhauling the telemetry and alerting systems on our embedded
Linux platform to provide cost-effective visibility on our growing
install base.
Building a framework for behavioral / simulation testing of power
control behaviors in our application stack. Extending our in-house
job queue-based hardware-in-the-loop testing platform.
About You
Required Qualifications:
5+ years of experience building reliable and maintainable software
in Rust, C/C++, Go, or other compiled, statically-typed
languages.
Solid fundamentals in software and API design best practices,
instrumentation, testing, and debugging.
Excellent interpersonal communication and collaboration skills.
Track record of taking ownership over projects and willingness to
help others with theirs, from design and code review through to
mentorship of new employees.
Bonus Qualifications:
Experience with one or more of:
Building networked home consumer hardware products, using embedded
Linux (Yocto or Buildroot, systemd), real-time operating systems
(FreeRTOS), wireless communications (e.g. WiFi, Bluetooth,
802.15.4), cloud backends (REST, GraphQL, MQTT, AWS IoT).
Building, maintaining infrastructure for pre-production performance
and hardware-in-the-loop testing.
Build and release practices for high-quality production software
releases, internal tools, and container-based development
environments.
Data analysis with Pandas and other tools from the scientific
Python ecosystem.
Clean energy hardware in a multidisciplinary environment.
The U.S. base salary range for this position is $147,000 - $200,000
plus benefits, equity and variable compensation for Sales-related
roles. This range represents SPAN's good faith estimate of
competitively-priced salary for the role based on national,
real-time industry data from companies of a similar growth stage.
This range reflects minimum and maximum new hire salaries for the
role in San Francisco county. Within the range, individual pay is
determined by location and individual factors including relevant
skills, experience and education or training. This range correlates
to the relative level of the candidate we believe we need for the
role and may require an adjustment for candidates of a different
level.
Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for
the location this role is based during the hiring process.
Life at SPAN
SPAN embraces diversity and equal opportunity in a serious way. We
are committed to building a team that represents a variety of
backgrounds, perspectives, and skills.
Headquartered in San Francisco's vibrant SoMa neighborhood, we are
an eclectic group of creative thinkers who value open
communication, teamwork, and a 'make it happen' approach to
addressing complex challenges.
We're hiring talented individuals who are driven by success and are
passionate about shaping the future of renewable energy. If that
sounds like you, we'd love for you to consider joining the rapidly
growing team at SPAN.
The Perks:
--- Competitive compensation + equity grants at a well-funded,
venture-backed company
--- Comprehensive benefits (including medical; dental, vision, life
and disability insurance)
--- Comfortable, sunny office space located near BART and Caltrain
public transit
--- Strong focus on teambuilding and company culture (events,
meet-ups, clubs)
--- Flexible hours and unlimited PTO
Interested in joining our team? Submit an application today and
we'll be in touch with next steps!
#J-18808-Ljbffr
Keywords: Span, Sacramento , Staff Device Software Engineer (Platform), IT / Software / Systems , San Francisco, California
Click
here to apply!
|