SPAN develops products that accelerate the rapid adoption of renewable energy in the home. The flagship SPAN Smart Panel is the first true evolution for the traditional home electric panel, harnessing enhanced technology for metering, monitoring, and control.
About the Role
Span is seeking an experienced and driven electrical engineer to lead the reliability program for Span through all stages of development.
Responsibilities
Own Span’s DFR (Design for Reliability), determine appropriate reliability targets, develop usage models, create DFMEA, test specs, test planning and reliability plan for the Span panel, Span Drive, and future products.
Determine test strategies that optimize for product reliability, DFMEA-based risk mitigations, test team resources, and program schedules.
Work with Engineers to develop test plans.
Operate tests using Linux command line and use basic Python coding to support test logging and data analysis and presentation.
Conduct testing in areas including the validation of material properties, design structure, thermal performance, ingress performance, antenna performance, and electrical safety.
Collaborate with internal and external teams to design and execute product and component level reliability testing including hands on testing with real hardware.
Conduct test data analysis, clearly communicate test results, and collaborate with design engineers to resolve issues detected in testing.
Own the build out of our in-house reliability lab, you will procure and develop test equipment to support testing on our current and future products.
Manage relationships with 3rd party testing facilities.