Mainspring Energy

power generation

SeniorSoftwareEngineerinTest

$123–145k Menlo Park, California, United States Salary
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Senior Software Engineer in Test at Mainspring Energy. Skills: building automation systems, formulating new testing approaches, automated testing systems, system validation, troubleshooting complex hardware/software integration issues. Building and running automated test systems. Designing automation workflows to support reliable system validation and troubleshooting complex hardware/software integration issues”

Industry & Context.

power generation
Problems you'll solve

solve complex scenarios with multiple components

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Several years of experience in related field, BS & 6 years, MS & 5 years, Completed multiple test automation projects with roles covering design and implementation, experience in test design, manual testing

Nice to Have

passion for building automated test systems, polyglotism to be sufficiently language agnostic

What You'll Do.

Building and running automated test systems

Designing automation workflows to support reliable system validation and troubleshooting complex hardware/software integration issues

Failure analysis of automated testing

risk mitigation on testing approaches

maintenance of automated test systems

Ensuring comprehensive automated test coverage and risk analysis

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

engage with developers to understand new features and technologies; Proactive Collaboration

Full Job Description

## Description Company Overview Mainspring Energy is revolutionizing power generation with the world’s most flexible and adaptable local power generation technology, the Mainspring Linear Generator. Commercial, industrial, and utility leaders are choosing Mainspring over traditional options like engines, turbines, and fuel cells to quickly and reliably deliver local power for EV charging, commercial facilities, data centers, and grid-scale operations.  The Mainspring Linear Generator is fuel flexible, ramps up and down to meet demand, and utilizes a flameless reaction with near-zero NOx emissions. Backed by top-tier investors including Khosla Ventures, Bill Gates, American Electric Power, Lightrock, and General Catalyst Mainspring designs, manufactures and delivers its products to customers across the U.S. today, and we’re quickly scaling for international expansion. Inspired by our vision of the affordable, reliable, net-zero carbon grid, Mainspring is rapidly expanding within the $816B global electricity equipment market, and we’re hiring the best talent to meet growing customer demand around the globe. We welcome a broad range of backgrounds, experiences, and talents to bring fresh perspectives and ongoing innovation to our customers. 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-discipli

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