Quality Assurance Engineer & Lab. Support (m/f/d)

Fluence is the leading global energy storage technology and services company, created and backed by Siemens and AES, two industry powerhouses and pioneers in energy storage. Fluence unites the scale, experience, breadth, and financial backing of the two most experienced icons in energy storage.

Our mission is to create a more sustainable future by transforming the way we power our world. Energy storage is critical to this transformation, yet today the market is fragmented and customers face the challenge of finding a trusted technology partner amidst conflicting technical claims, inexperienced vendors and installers, and new market entrants with limited power sector knowledge.

Fluence brings the proven technology solutions and services that overcome the commercial and regulatory barriers that stand in the way of modernizing our energy networks. We are the partner that can deliver at a global scale with the most experienced and knowledgeable team in the world.

About Fluence: Fluence Energy, Inc. (Nasdaq: FLNC) is a global market leader in energy storage products and services, and optimization software for renewables and storage. With a presence in over 47 markets globally, Fluence provides an ecosystem of offerings to drive the clean energy transition, including modular, scalable energy storage products, comprehensive service offerings, and the Fluence IQ Platform, which delivers AI-enabled SaaS products for managing and optimizing renewables and storage from any provider. Fluence is transforming the way we power our world by helping customers create more resilient and sustainable electric grids.

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We are guided by our passion to transform the way we power our world. Achieving our goals requires creativity, diversity of ideas and backgrounds, and building trust to effect change and move with speed.

Fluence currently has thousands of MW of energy storage projects operated or awarded worldwide in addition to the thousands of MW of projects managed by our trading platform—and we are growing every day.

Fluence is defined by its unwavering commitment to safety, quality, and integrity.

We achieve our goals and meet our customer’s needs by cultivating curiosity, adaptability, and self-reflection in our teams.

We value the diversity in thought and experience of our coworkers and customers. Through honest, forthcoming, and respectful communications we work to ensure that Fluence is an inclusive and welcoming environment for all. 

The QA Engineer & Lab Support will perform as a member of a dynamic hardware engineering team developing cutting edge energy storage tools.  The QA Engineer & Lab Support will test software and hardware for ongoing development projects and be responsible for developing and maintaining test cases using Agile Scrum software development methodologies.  Responsibilities will include compliance management, technical documentation, testing support, and process efficiency. 

What will our ideal candidate bring to Fluence? 

•B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Quality Engineering, or related technical field.  

•5+ years of experience design and testing of power electronic devices.

•Experience using a Test Case Management System such as TestRail.

•Experience capturing day to day activities in JIRA.

•Ability to support product concepts through the evaluation and implementation of new and state-of-the-art technologies that address challenging customer problems.

•Ability to use engineering expertise to analyze complex hardware, electronics, software, and fluidics systems, design, architecture, and other technical issues.

•Desire to participate, define, and adhere to best practices for hardware engineering, development testing, and validation.

•Experience working with hardware and software in loop test harnesses.

•Perform validation testing and complete root cause analysis of possible failures in components, subsystems, and product-level systems.

•Review product and process non-conformance and recommend remedial actions including but not limited to modifications of products, processes or QA standards where warranted.

•Experience in forming design/analysis of a system or new requirements.

•Experience testing embedded systems for industrial uses, particularly feedback control systems.

•Experience in developing test plans and procedures to assess adherence to requirements.

•Working knowledge of electrical systems; power system experience preferred.

•The ability to comprehend high-level objectives and translate that to provide technical leadership to a team of quality engineers. 

•Have strong oral and written communication skills for communicating ideas to both managers and other technical leads.

•Work with external suppliers certifications, test documents, and requirements are all up to date.

•Ability to read technical specifications, engineering drawings, and descriptions as they relate to engineering designs, process flow, manufacturing techniques, and quality standards.

•Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, draw valid conclusions, and provide solutions.

•Experience in supporting Linux, Mac and Windows operating systems.

•Experience with AWS, Openstack, Docker, and/or Github.

•Experience with continuous integration, build management, and automated test frameworks.

•Experience assessing existing products.