Vice President of Electrical and Systems Engineering Job at Mainspring Energy
Vice President of Electrical and Systems Engineering
Company Overview
Driven 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 onsite, fuel-flexible power to help accelerate the transition to the future 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 is backed by top-tier venture and strategic investors such as Khosla Ventures, Bill Gates, American Electric Power, and Centrica Innovations. More information can be found at www.mainspringenergy.com.
Responsibilities
The Linear Generator is unlike any other generator technology on the market - it is a system that couples a chemical reaction and thermally driven expansion directly to a linear motor for energy generation and control. This is a complex system to optimize, and one that requires a deep understanding of the physical processes (mechanical dynamics, thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, heat transfer, etc.) as well as the electrical systems to convert that kinetic energy into electrons (power electronics, control systems, etc.).
The ideal candidate has depth in one or more of these areas, is strongly cross-functional, and brings a systems engineering mindset to optimizing for the lowest cost of energy across not only the product, but also every aspect of deploying the product and connecting it to the grid. Ideally, they also have a good understanding of high-volume manufacturing as well as the energy market, both commercial and industrial.
This person must be an excellent leader who personifies our core values and can grow the team to accomplish our goals. This position reports to the COO, and is expected to be on-site at least 50% of the time.
- Lead Power Electronics (including LEM electrical design), Controls, Firmware, and Modeling
- Manage the development systems and processes, product deliverables and roadmap, strategy and goals
- Own and drive systems engineering across the entire product and field deployment - very cross-functional where electronics meets mechanical cost and thermodynamic performance tradeoffs
Qualifications
- Advanced degree in electrical engineering with significant expertise in power electronics
- Delivered a power electronics product through the full product cycle from development through manufacturing ramp and large-scale deployment
- Proven success growing and managing technical teams
- Designed complex systems that require complex engineering/risk/cost/requirements tradeoffs
- Thrives in a fast-paced startup environment
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.
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