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About Mainspring
Mainspring Energy manufactures and delivers fuel-flexible, low-emissions local power solutions that rapidly add new capacity and deliver reliable, affordable, and sustainable electric power. The company began commercial shipments of its Mainspring Linear Generators in 2020 and today has hundreds of megawatts in advanced development and field operations for leading Fortune 500 companies, data centers, and utilities. Mainspring also partners with global energy leaders including AEP, NextEra Energy Resources, Schneider Electric, and more.
The core values that ground our work, guide our decisions, and connect us together:
Pragmatic Optimism
Excellence without Ego
Proactive Collaboration
Job Overview
Do you enjoy diving into building new automation systems and formulating new testing approaches in areas like cloud computing, networking, IoT with real time operating systems, controls, simulations (MIL, SIL, PIL), and algorithms? We combine this technology with our company vision of building a new category of power that is affordable, reliable, and targeting a net-zero carbon grid. This cornucopia of science and technology will be your daily career at Mainspring.
This is an opportunity for you to join a world-class engineering team: to build and run automated testing systems to ensure the quality of the product. This is an exciting opportunity to become part of a rapidly growing engineering team.
In this role. you will have significant influence over the quality of the product, engage with developers to understand new features and technologies, and create innovative automated testing solutions within tight requirements to solve complex scenarios with multiple components.
Responsibilities Architect Automation: Design and scale robust test frameworks and CI/CD integrations
System Validation: Create workflows to validate complex hardware/software integrations and resolve system-level bottlenecks
Root Cause Analysis: Lead failure analysis and risk mitigation to ensure test stability and environment reliability
Strategic Coverage: Drive risk-based testing strategies to ensure comprehensive coverage of all critical-path functionalities
Qualifications Experience & Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field with 6+ years of professional experience, or a Master’s degree with 5+ years in an SDET or Software Engineering role
Engineering Mindset: A driven, self-directed contributor who views test infrastructure as a first-class product; you thrive on architecting scalable, automated systems that increase developer velocity
Strategic Test Design: Proven track record of leading complex automation projects from design to implementation, with the foundational ability to perform deep-dive manual exploratory testing and technical test case design
Technical Versatility: Strong hands-on experience developing in Python and C++, with the flexibility to navigate and contribute to diverse codebases as the project requires
AI Workflow Ownership: Demonstrated proficiency in leveraging AI coding assistants as a force multiplier for productivity, combined with the professional judgment to challenge and expand upon AI-generated solutions to ensure system integrity and long-term maintainability
$135,000 - $159,000 a year
This position is onsite at our Menlo Park HQ . The salary will be adjusted to reflect local market conditions based on employee location as well as the experience of the employee. Along with the base salary, Mainspring offers pre-IPO stock options + benefits.
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.
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