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Senior Controls and Commissioning Engineer
Mainspring EnergyMenlo Park, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 26 Aug 2025
About the role
Company Overview
Mainspring Energy is revolutionizing power generation with the world’s most flexible and adaptable onsite power generator, 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 technology with near-zero NOx emissions.
Backed by top-tier investors such as Khosla Ventures, Bill Gates, American Electric Power, and Lightrock, 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-disciplinary nature of Mainspring’s business requires intentionally seeking out others who bring different skills, perspectives, and priorities. Our culture of inclusion and respect extends beyond our team to interactions with our partners and customers.
More information can be found at www.mainspringenergy.com
Job Overview
A key enabler of Mainspring’s mission is the ability of its team to design systems that solve customer problems in the cross section of resiliency and clean power supply. This includes visiting Commercial & Industrial customer sites, engaging with customers to understand their needs, and participating in the configuration & startup of custom clean power solutions based on our linear generators. Mainspring seeks a Controls and Commissioning Engineer with emphasis in power systems controls applications to architect customer solutions that get deployed in practice.
Mainspring Energy is revolutionizing power generation with the world’s most flexible and adaptable onsite power generator, 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 technology with near-zero NOx emissions.
Backed by top-tier investors such as Khosla Ventures, Bill Gates, American Electric Power, and Lightrock, 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-disciplinary nature of Mainspring’s business requires intentionally seeking out others who bring different skills, perspectives, and priorities. Our culture of inclusion and respect extends beyond our team to interactions with our partners and customers.
More information can be found at www.mainspringenergy.com
Job Overview
A key enabler of Mainspring’s mission is the ability of its team to design systems that solve customer problems in the cross section of resiliency and clean power supply. This includes visiting Commercial & Industrial customer sites, engaging with customers to understand their needs, and participating in the configuration & startup of custom clean power solutions based on our linear generators. Mainspring seeks a Controls and Commissioning Engineer with emphasis in power systems controls applications to architect customer solutions that get deployed in practice.
Responsibilities
- Develop and Interpret Technical Documentation: scope of works, installation instructions, sequence of operations and engineering drawings, including process and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs), single-line, and three-line diagrams, ensuring compliance with design and project requirements.
- Plan and Execute Site Acceptance Tests (SAT): Lead SAT efforts and on-site commissioning for power generation equipment, fuel systems, and balance-of-plant processes and equipment, ensuring all systems perform as specified, and identifying deficiencies or areas for improvement.
- Program and Troubleshoot PLCs: Write, test, and debug PLC programs, with a focus on integrating and optimizing microgrid and power system controls platforms.
- Familiarity with HMI/SCADA Systems: Experience advanced monitoring and control systems using platforms like Ignition by Inductive Automation, Schneider Automation's Real-Time Automation Controller (RTAC), Siemens’ WinCC, and Wonderware by AVEVA.
- Configure and Troubleshoot Industrial Communication Networks: Work with protocols such as Modbus TCP/IP, Ethernet/IP, Profibus, and OPC-UA, ensuring seamless integration with SCADA, DCS, and HMI systems.
- Design and Configure Instrumentation and Process Controls: Develop, implement, and troubleshoot instrumentation systems for industrial and power generation applications, ensuring performance and accuracy.
- Support Power Generation and Metering/Protection Systems: Integrate and commission power generation equipment, metering and protection schemes, and optimize system reliability.
- Quality Assurance (QA) & Compliance: Uphold high standards of quality control and continuous improvement throughout the commissioning process. Manage documentation related to QA as it relates to system handover to post-commissioning operations. <
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