Senior Certification Engineer

Number of employees

230

San Francisco, United States

Posted on: 2022-03-05

Category: energy

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Employment type:

Full time

Experience required:

Senior

Salary

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About the company:

At SPAN, we believe that powering homes with clean energy should be a simple and delightful experience that is technology-forward and human-centered. 

SPAN is advancing clean energy adoption with innovative hardware that replaces the electrical panel and becomes the home's center for connected power. It’s easier and faster to install, and it completely transforms the customer experience with intuitive energy controls and customizable backup power.

The Mission

The electrical grid was built to carry electricity unidirectionally from central fossil fuel plants to end consumers. As we transition to a renewable future built from rooftop solar and community storage, the grid itself needs an overhaul. Span’s goal is to re-invent the grid from a clean slate to enable that transition, envisioning a grid made of distributed control systems and software as much as copper wires.

To accomplish this, we are upgrading the breaker panel — the humble box sitting at the center of every building’s electrical wiring — to monitor, control, and make decisions about energy. This converts buildings from passive consumers in a centralized fossil fuel grid to active participants in the emerging distributed energy market.

SPAN’s unique commitment to clean-slate “right architecture” and our zealotry for top-caliber customer experience position us as domain leaders in envisioning the distributed grid and have allowed us to achieve rapid growth and high visibility in the industry in the three years since our founding.

The Role

As the first member of our compliance team, you’ll take SPAN’s next-generation product suite through certification. We’ll look to you to own relationships with NRTLs, win arguments about test plan, identify risk areas, and fly out to represent Span at NRTL test facilities. You’ll be given a large degree of ownership, autonomy, and leeway; for example we’ll look to you to suss out difficult tests, work with the design team to make sure we’ll pass them, and then work with a technician to run those tests in advance. Similarly, you’ll play a key role in deciding on SPAN’s certification strategy and participate in key early design decisions.

Responsibilities

  • Be a resident expert for key standards that Span is designing to (e.g. UL 67, UL 916, UL 1741 SA)

  • Manage relationships with and serve as primary point of contact to NRTLs

  • Take Span products through the full certification process, running tests and traveling to test facilities as needed

  • In collaboration with the design team, come up with and document certification strategy for Span products

  • Plan and execute pre-compliance testing at Span HQ

About You

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s/graduate degree in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, or related

  • 3+ years' professional, hands-on experience running compliance test and working with NRTLs

  • Experience taking a high voltage / power electrical product through the complete certification process

  • Solid basis in electrical and mechanical engineering fundamentals

  • Understanding of the “UL mindset” and the underlying rationale behind core hardware certification concepts (e.g. creepage and clearance, temperature testing)

  • Comfort working hands-on to build test setup (soldering, wiring harnesses, basic fabrication)

  • Fluency with lab electrical equipment (multimeter, oscilloscope, power analyzer, hipot testers)

  • Basic knowledge of Linux computers

Bonus Qualifications

  • Specific professional experience with standards for electrical (UL 67, UL 414, UL 508), solar inverter (UL 1741 / 1741 SA, UL 9540), electric vehicle charging (UL 2231, UL 2594, UL 9741), or controls (UL 916, UL 60730)

  • Experience with National Electrical Code, smart-grid communications standards (e.g. IEEE 2030.5), utility standards (e.g. PG&E Greenbook), and/or metering standards (ANSI C12.20)

Life at Span

Why SPAN?

SPAN offers a unique opportunity at a startup based in the SOMA neighborhood of San Francisco. We are a small, diverse team of creative thinkers. We value open communication, teamwork, and a make-it-happen attitude - no job is too big or too small. We strive to make change by imagining what the future could be and building a product to complete that vision. We are looking to grow our team with talented people who are on the same mission to shape the future of energy.

Working at SPAN, you can expect:

  • Competitive compensation and early equity at a well-funded, fast-growing, venture-backed company (read more on why Amazon and others invested in SPAN here and here)
  • A sunny 20,000 sq ft hardware lab + office space in SOMA, a stone’s throw from Caltrain and close to BART
  • Flexible hours and vacation time - we simultaneously work hard and make space for the important stuff
  • Additional SPAN holidays in celebration of causes we believe in (i.e. Black History Day, Women’s History Day, Earth Day and Gay Pride & Juneteenth among others)
  • Comprehensive benefits including a choice of medical plans; dental, vision, life and disability insurance
  • Diversity - we are serious about this. 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. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.

 

 

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