Electrical Engineer Intern

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
The technology that powers Mainspring’s Linear Generator is unlike any other generator technology on the market. The Linear Generator relies on innovative electrical power and control hardware systems to achieve its best-in-class efficiency while meeting the world’s strictest emissions requirements. These hardware systems are designed by a talented team of engineers that own hardware design from initial concept through test and manufacturing. We're looking for an enthusiastic intern to join the electrical engineering design team and help us shape the future of energy! Internship work assignments will emphasize troubleshooting and problem resolution, as part of a broader cross-functional effort to continuously improve our Linear Generator.

Responsibilities

• Get hands-on experience troubleshooting complex hardware issues on R&D generators, on the production floor, and at field units
• Analyze generator operating data to characterize problems
• Lead failure investigations, including identifying near term containment activities, root causing problems, and implementing & validating corrective actions
• Formulate roll-out plans to globalize corrective actions across our fleet of customer generators
• Contribute to various design activities that may involve low voltage electronics, low and high voltage power distribution, power converters, high voltage batteries and more!
• Learn and grow alongside a team of world class engineers!

Qualifications

• An eagerness to work on a wide variety of assignments
• Experience working in a team environment with ability to communicate across a range of disciplines and personalities
• Electrical Engineering or similar major, with basic fundamentals of circuit theory
• Hands-on knowledge of oscilloscopes, multimeters and other test instruments to measure electrical parameters such as voltage, current, frequency

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 flexibl