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Embedded Software Intern
Mainspring EnergyMenlo Park, United StatesinternshipVerifiedPosted 4 Mar 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
Mainspring Energy’s revolutionary linear generator is a sophisticated system that produces clean, low-carbon electricity using a distributed network of embedded systems. The distributed embedded system requires a robust communication platform that is rapidly evolving and expanding. This role will architect and develop foundational software components for the communications platform.
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
Mainspring Energy’s revolutionary linear generator is a sophisticated system that produces clean, low-carbon electricity using a distributed network of embedded systems. The distributed embedded system requires a robust communication platform that is rapidly evolving and expanding. This role will architect and develop foundational software components for the communications platform.
Responsibilities
- Primarily work with the embedded software team while collaborating with the DevOps, software QA, control electronics, and controls engineering teams
- Understand the existing software and systems as well as the requirements for the projects you are working on
- Participate in one of the scrum teams to complete this work, helping with writing tickets and completing the work on those tickets following the established development processes
- The proposed projects are expected to provide near-term business value to Mainspring with the prospect of a solution that continues to be used and built on in the future
- Possible projects depending on experience and interest are listed below
- Code generation tools to automate repetitive coding tasks related to the translation of data between different protocols and in various programming languages
- Test benches and test automation for embedded systems that cover hardware and network interfaces and automation of test execution
- Document management system to publish controlled technical documents using existing or bespoke software relying on front-end and back-end web development skills
Qualifications
- Pursuing a Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or software engineering
- Experience with Python, C++, Linux, network communications, network APIs, software testing
- Experience with software development processes and tools such as git, CMake, JIRA, gcc
- Experience with electronics and tools such as an oscilloscope, multimeter, logic analyzer, or protocol analyzer is a plus
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