Device Software Engineer, Gateway​/Embedded Linux

Location

San Francisco

Full time

On-site

Software Engineering

• $180K – $210K - Offers Equity

This range represents SPAN’s good faith estimate of competitively-priced salary for the role based on national, real-time industry data from companies of a similar growth stage. This range reflects minimum and maximum new hire salaries for the role across US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by location and individual factors including relevant skills, experience, and education or training.

This range correlates to the relative level of the candidate we believe we need for the role and may require an adjustment for candidates of a different level. Your recruiter can tell you more about the specific salary range for the location this role is based during the hiring process.

SPAN is enabling electrification for all

We are a mission-driven company designing, building, and deploying products that electrify the built environment, reduce carbon emissions, and slow the effects of climate change.

• Decarbonization is the process to reduce or remove greenhouse gas emissions, especially carbon dioxide, from entering our atmosphere.
• Electrification is the process of replacing fossil fuel appliances that run on gas or oil with all-electric upgrades for a cleaner way to power our lives.

• Enabling homes and vehicles powered by clean energy
• Making electrification upgrades possible
• Building more resilient homes with reliable backup
• Designing a flexible and distributed electrical grid

SPAN’s Device Software team is responsible for the full lifecycle of new products, features, and integrations. We are focused on quickly building minimum viable solutions that will help unlock market segments and increase sales. We look for friendly, motivated engineers who enjoy working with their peers to drive impact and move the business forward. Engineers on this team work directly with the broader cross-functional strategic team including product, mobile software, cloud software, and hardware.

As an engineer on this team you will have the opportunity to be the owner for new initiatives that impact any of our hardware components from microcontrollers up through application stack in embedded Linux. This can include everything from bootloaders on systems without an OS up through applications in C and C++ inside an RTOS, to system services and applications written in Rust and Python in embedded Linux.

Hardware products are central to SPAN’s business and writing firmware for even our smallest microcontrollers means working on something that directly impacts the user experience.

• Integrations with smart networked third party home energy devices: work across teams to define MVP, manage external partners, define architecture, and lead the implementation
• The regulatory frameworks that govern our electrical systems and devices are updated from time to time. In some cases, changes here may create market demand for electrical products. To unlock new markets, we may work with our product and certification teams to design new features or capabilities and lead the implementation.
• We are always looking for ways to bring additional value to our customers and the strategic team is generally responsible for delivering these products and features. For example, a new SPAN Drive charge mode may help customers save on their electricity bills and get more out of their existing solar panels.

Required Qualifications

We are seeking a Firmware/Embedded Linux engineer with:

• 8 or more years of experience writing software for a hardware device (on a microcontroller, and/or in Linux, etc) in C/C++, Rust, and/or Python
• Strong fundamentals in modern software design coupled with awareness of concerns like manual memory management
• Experience working with standard electrical communication interfaces like UART, I2C, USB, etc.
• Exceptional interpersonal communication and collaboration skills. Great at building trust and driving decisions to a resolution
• Track record of taking ownership of projects and willingness to help others with theirs, from design and…