<p></p><p><strong>About Rondo</strong><strong> Energy</strong></p><p>Rondo Energy's mission is to eliminate 15% of global CO2 emissions in 15 years.</p><p>To accomplish this mission, Rondo is deploying low-cost, zero-carbon Rondo Heat Batteries to accelerate the deployment of renewable energy and to significantly decarbonize industrial processes that are commonly thought of as "difficult-to-decarbonize". Our Heat Batteries charge from intermittent renewables to provide high temperature, continuous heat for customers safely, reliably, at an unprecedented 98% efficiency - and at a cost point that is lower than any other method.</p><p><span>We are looking for an experienced, charismatic Project Originator to join our team to help us repower industrial heat at scale. In this role, you will have a huge impact on Rondo's success as you would work directly with customers to originate and develop Heat Battery projects from first call to definitive agreement.</span><span> </span></p><p> </p><p><strong><span>What You Will Do</span></strong><span> (key responsibilities for this role include but are not limited to):</span><span> </span></p><ul><li><span>Develop existing pipeline and originate new prospects.  Own key accounts, driving repeat business and maintaining relationships throughout project lifecycle</span><span> </span></li><li><span>Support the identification of target customer segment markets, market segment value propositions and product roadmap strategy</span><span> </span></li><li><span>Qualify potential customers for product fit; understand the heating load, energy markets, renewables and evaluate ability to transact</span><span> </span></li><li><span>Manage customer relationships, understand customer decision making processes and navigate the path to closed sales</span><span> </span></li><li><span>Identify how Heat Batteries create value for stakeholders to develop the project scope and business relationships necessary to deliver turnkey project solutions for industrial facilities.  This will require working closely with renewable developers, electric utilities, wholesale electricity market suppliers, EPC’s, our application engineering team, our legal team, and our project finance team to structure projects and iterate on proposed solutions</span></li><li>Prepare customer presentation materials, perform some technical and financial analysis independently and work with the application engineering and project finance teams</li><li>Identify key commercial terms to compose MOU’s, LOI’s, and term sheets to support the path to definitive agreements</li><li>Present projects at internal approval meetings.</li><li>Conduct virtual and in-person meetings with potential customers and project partners - present at conferences, webinars, trade associations, etc.</li><li>Maintain your contacts and projects in CRM by advancing through deal stages and forecasting project size, close data, etc.</li><li>Support the development and implementation of Rondo’s processes for project deal development, e.g. project information standards, document tracking, and risk review <span> </span></li></ul><p><span> </span></p><p><strong><span>What You Will Bring:</span></strong><span> </span></p><ul><li><span>Experience with industrial sector business development and large capital equipment sales</span><span> </span></li><li><span>Proven track record in lead creation, customer relationship nurturing through execution, and repeat sales - both independently and as part of a team</span></li><li>Fluency in structuring and negotiating commercial contracts, finding a deal’s solution space that solves for the needs of the customer and the company</li><li>Experience with renewable project development, including structuring project financing</li><li>Experience with Commercial and Industrial micro-grid and combined heat and power projects</li><li>Familiarity with industrial sector energy procurement and energy as-a-service business models</li><li>Experience with Industrial energy efficiency project origination <span> </span></li></ul><p> </p><p><strong>What We Offer:</strong></p><ul><li>Comprehensive Medical Benefits</li><li>Dental &amp; Vision Benefits</li><li>Life Insurance and ADD</li><li>Up to 13 paid holidays per year, in addition to a company week-long holiday in December</li><li>Flexible time off policy</li><li>401(k) plan with company match</li><li>Rondo HQ is close to Oakland airport - one block from the Bay - and has stunning Bay views!</li></ul><p> </p><p><span>This ideal locations for this role will be the San Francisco Bay Area or East Coast. It will require occasional travel to customer sites, domestic and global.  The estimated current travel time is 10-20% but may grow as the business continues to evolve. <span> The estimated annual salary range for this role is $160,000 to $200,000 and it would be eligible for Rondo's excellent benefits listed above plus additional compensation in the form of equity and sales bonus. Please note that some pay bands may have wide ranges of compensation to accommodate candidates' diverse sets of skill levels and experience.</span><span> </span></span></p><p> </p><p><em>Rondo Energy</em><em> is an equal opportunity employer. We strive to create a supportive and inclusive workplace where contributions are valued and celebrated, and our employees thrive by being themselves and are inspired to do their best work. We seek applicants of all backgrounds and identities, across race, color, ethnicity, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or parental status, or disability. Applicants will not be discriminated against based on these or other protected categories or social identities.</em></p><p><em>Rondo is committed to the full inclusion of all applicants. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the interview process, please let our recruiting team know</em>.</p><p><em>We proactively work to design hiring processes that promote equity and inclusion while mitigating bias.</em></p><p><em>Note to Recruitment Agencies:</em><em> Rondo does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Furthermore, Rondo Energy does not pay placement fees for candidates submitted by any agency other than its approved partners.</em></p><p></p>

Revolutionize decarbonization with Rondo Heat Batteries: affordable, reliable, zero-carbon energy to tackle global CO

Director of Project Origination

<h1>Company</h1><p>In order to keep climate change to 1.5°C, we’ll need 30% of global GDP (all of energy generation and transportation) to run on batteries by 2035.</p><p>Zitara Technologies (YCombinator S20) builds predictive battery management software for transportation and energy customers with large deployments. Our customers operate &gt;$100M deployments of batteries in satellites, EVs, and renewable energy storage installations.</p><p>Our team brings top researchers in physics-based battery algorithms together with seasoned software engineers to build safety-critical firmware and large scale machine learning systems. We bring with us decades of experience from companies like Tesla, Facebook, and Google.</p><h1>Role</h1><p>Zitara has one of the most comprehensive battery performance datasets in the world, consisting of terabytes of electrical and thermal battery data from fleets of devices in the field and battery systems in our lab. Zitara builds thousands of battery models on top of these datasets, and these models enable our customers to use their batteries more safely and efficiently. </p><p>As a member of the Web / Services Team, you will help our customers monitor and analyze "fleet" data of all of their deployed batteries.</p><p>Note, this role includes on-call duty currently set at 1 week, 6 times per year.</p><h1>Responsibilities</h1><ul><li><p>Build Zitara’s internal API infrastructure and tooling to collect battery data to be analyzed and turned into business intelligence and web dashboards</p></li><li><p>Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement scalable solutions that manage complex, highly structured data sets with domain specific requirements</p></li><li>Provide mentorship and technical guidance to more junior engineers on the team</li></ul><h1>Qualifications</h1><ul><li>Fluency in Python</li><li><p>5+ years of experience building software in large scale distributed systems</p></li><li><p>Strong understanding of HTTP services, background workers, relational databases (PostgreSQL), and S3</p></li><li><p>Familiarity with the full life cycle of software development, from design and implementation, to testing and deployment, to monitoring and alerting</p></li><li><p>A love for our planet and a desire to contribute to solutions that address the climate crisis</p></li></ul><h3><strong>Preferred Additional Qualifications</strong></h3><ul><li>Experience managing cloud-based infrastructure such as AWS</li><li><p>Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker</p></li><li><p>Experience with high-traffic IoT applications, including managing rate limiting and traffic shaping</p></li><li>Understanding fundamentals of cryptography, experience with cryptography in an IoT application</li></ul><p> </p><h1>What We Offer</h1><ul><li><p>Salary Range $160,000 to $210,000 annual base </p></li><li><p>Health, Dental, and Vision care for you and your family</p></li><li><p>401K savings plan</p></li><li><p>Unlimited vacation policy</p></li><li><p>An altruistic company mission</p></li><li><p>Excellent colleagues that are interested in your happiness and growth</p></li></ul><p> </p>

Zitara Technologies: Cloud-ready software empowering companies to optimize battery performance and enhance fleet operations.

Senior Software Engineer | Web and IoT

<p style="">Are you ready to build America’s clean energy future with the team that will deliver? Form Energy is an American energy technology and manufacturing company. We are pioneering a new class of iron-air batteries to enable our electric grid to run on renewable, reliable, and affordable energy, every day of the year. </p><p style=""></p><p style="">Form Energy has been recognized by TIME as “One of the Best Inventions of 2023” for its battery technology and by MIT Technology Review as a “Top Climate Tech Company to Watch”. We are making rapid progress on our mission of delivering energy storage for a better world, and are growing just as rapidly to meet demand. Our team has more than doubled in size in the past year, and continues to expand every day. We have signed contracts with leading electric utilities across the United States. Pilot production of our iron-air batteries has already begun, and later this year, production will take off to high volumes at our new factory in West Virginia. </p><p style=""></p><p style="">Working for Form Energy is more than just a job, it’s a chance to be part of something extraordinary. And right now might be the most exciting moment in the company’s history to join. We are assembling a team of some of the most talented and motivated individuals across the country. Driven by our core values of humanity, excellence, and creativity, our team is determined to deliver on our mission and transform the energy landscape for the better.</p><p style=""></p><p style="">Feeling energized to make a meaningful impact on the world? Then keep reading - you’ve come to the right place.<br><br></p><h2>Role Description</h2><p style="">Form Energy is hiring a Senior Electrical Engineer to design, prototype and verify power conversion components and equipment in our battery power path. In addition to the electromechanical design and prototype work, you will develop verification plans and end-of-line test procedures to ensure a seamless transition from in-house prototypes to factory production. This includes driving the continuous improvement of our validation plans and capabilities, such as development of test fixtures for use in our Power Conversion Lab, Form Factory, or at contract manufacturer facilities. </p><p style="">You will showcase your ability to independently organize engineering documentation and requirements needed to interface with our Integration and BMS Electronics teams, as well as what is needed for our Supply Chain to achieve successful vendor engagement. This is an exciting opportunity to move some serious power at a company focused on creating a reliable and fully renewable electric grid year-round!</p><p style=""></p><h3>What you'll do:</h3><ul style=""><li><p style="">Identify and document requirements for key power conversion system components, as well as the auxiliary and BMS electronics that have mutual interfaces</p></li><li><p style="">Plan and execute tests that validate basic functionality and characterize performance of in-house prototypes and first-articles provided by vendors </p></li><li><p style="">Design and prototype assemblies and wiring systems that route, control, monitor, disconnect and protect the battery power path</p></li><li><p style="">Engage with external vendors and our Supply Chain to source electromechanical components that can meet design requirements at scale</p></li><li><p style="">Produce production-quality engineering documentation. This includes descriptive mechanical CAD drawings of panel layouts, busbars and circuit spacings, as well as electrical single- and multi-line drawings, conduit schedules and cable assemblies</p></li><li><p style="">Coordinate the release of drawings and bills of materials into our PLM database</p></li><li><p style="">Evaluate, propose and implement tools, equipment and protection systems necessary for the efficient, capable and safe operation of our test sites and product</p></li><li><p style="">Scale experience gained from your lab tests to real-world product applications through hands-on opportunities at our first-in-kind field installations</p></li><li><p style="">Support other aspects of the power conversion system design, test and release process and grow as team and product needs evolve</p></li></ul><p style=""></p><h3>What you'll bring:</h3><ul style=""><li><p style="">Bachelor’s degree or higher and 5+ years of experience in electrical engineering</p></li><li><p style="">Electrical system design and test background in a product development environment, specifically for electric power generation, distribution, energy storage, or drivetrains</p></li><li><p style="">Strong understanding of circuit fundamentals, AC and DC power systems, and the thermal and mechanical implications of these circuits at high power and high voltage</p></li><li><p style="">Experience producing electrical and mechanical drawings in AutoCAD Electrical and SolidWorks, either through individual proficiency or through successfully contracting with external firms</p></li><li><p style="">Expertise in manipulating DC and AC bench supplies, oscilloscopes, current and voltage probes, power meters, data acquisition, hi-pot and continuity testers and other electronics test equipment</p></li><li><p style="">Ability to prototype electrical assemblies, with a focus on producing high quality build instructions to our support team informed by first hand experience and exceptional workmanship</p></li><li><p style="">Discipline around high-voltage (1500 V) and high-current (&gt; 2 kA); experience with NFPA 70E a plus</p></li><li><p style="">Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain design decisions, summarize observations, and absorb information and requirements from other teams</p><p style=""></p><p style=""></p></li></ul><p style=""><em>#LI-Onsite</em></p><p style=""><em>#LI-AB1</em></p><p style=""></p><p style="">Humanity is a cornerstone of Form Energy’s culture, and we make sure our compensation and benefits reflect that. Form Energy offers competitive salaries, stock options, and a holistic benefits package to ensure all employees have what they need to thrive while working here. </p><p style=""></p><p style="">When it comes to you and your family’s health, we cover 100% of medical, dental, and vision premiums for full-time employees - and 80% of healthcare premiums for dependents. This starts from day one. We also offer at least 12 weeks of paid leave for new parents (up to 20 weeks for birthing parents), and generous vacation policies to give employees time to recharge when needed. </p><p style=""></p><p style="">To build a clean and equitable energy future, we need everyone at the table. We strive to form a team as diverse as the communities we will serve with our technology, and are committed to maintaining an inclusive environment for all employees. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply to our open jobs.</p>

Revolutionizing renewable energy with cost-effective, multi-day storage systems for a reliable and sustainable electric grid.

Senior Electrical Engineer, Power Conversion

<p style="">Are you ready to build America’s clean energy future with the team that will deliver? Form Energy is an American energy technology and manufacturing company. We are pioneering a new class of iron-air batteries to enable our electric grid to run on renewable, reliable, and affordable energy, every day of the year. </p><p style=""></p><p style="">Form Energy has been recognized by TIME as “One of the Best Inventions of 2023” for its battery technology and by MIT Technology Review as a “Top Climate Tech Company to Watch”. We are making rapid progress on our mission of delivering energy storage for a better world, and are growing just as rapidly to meet demand. Our team has more than doubled in size in the past year, and continues to expand every day. We have signed contracts with leading electric utilities across the United States. Pilot production of our iron-air batteries has already begun, and later this year, production will take off to high volumes at our new factory in West Virginia. </p><p style=""></p><p style="">Working for Form Energy is more than just a job, it’s a chance to be part of something extraordinary. And right now might be the most exciting moment in the company’s history to join. We are assembling a team of some of the most talented and motivated individuals across the country. Driven by our core values of humanity, excellence, and creativity, our team is determined to deliver on our mission and transform the energy landscape for the better.</p><p style=""></p><p style="">Feeling energized to make a meaningful impact on the world? Then keep reading - you’ve come to the right place.<br><br></p><h2>Role Description</h2><p style="">Form Energy is hiring a Senior Electrical Engineer to supercharge efforts to design our power collection and electrical protection systems. You will drive the design of protection systems for the converters, support equipment and interfaces that deliver energy from our batteries to the grid. This includes the high-power and high-voltage DC/DC converters, grid-tied AC/DC inverters, transformers and wiring systems for both prototypes and the product-intent design. Specific responsibilities include overload protection, short-circuit current protection, arc flash mitigation, isolation monitoring, surge protection and the planning of comprehensive grounding schemes. </p><p style=""></p><p style="">Your work will be focused on our primary 1500V DC power path, but will occasionally involve 480V to 690V AC distribution systems as well. You will need to communicate clearly with suppliers to secure design guidance on the most appropriate and cost-effective solutions for the different stages of power collection, and collaborate with our own Integration team and  Project Engineering to develop a solution that is mindful of the complete site architecture. This is an exciting opportunity to scale the power delivery system of a breakthrough technology at a fast-moving company with an incredible mission!</p><p style=""></p><h3>What you'll do:</h3><ul style=""><li><p style="">Own the design and analysis of the protection systems for our DC power collection, as well as aspects of the AC auxiliary distribution and loads</p></li><li><p style="">Collaborate with external partners to specify 1500V DC fuses and contactors, from the battery module to the central inverter</p></li><li><p style="">Prepare battery system coordination studies that are aware of both upstream and downstream components, as well as conditions for a given site or installation, such as high ambient temperature</p></li><li><p style="">Determine surge susceptibility at each node in the product architecture and work with supply chain to source components that deliver adequate protection</p></li><li><p style="">Own the design and testing of insulation monitoring across our battery platforms as well as the product architecture they inform</p></li><li><p style="">Assist in cable sizing and selection based on ampacity requirements, environmental considerations and any applicable compliance standards or regulations</p></li><li><p style="">Produce engineering diagrams, notes and documentation as well as support materials for procurement, manufacturing and compliance </p></li><li><p style="">Support other aspects of the power conversion system design, test and release process and grow as team and product needs evolve</p></li></ul><p style=""></p><h3>What you'll bring:</h3><ul style=""><li><p style="">Bachelor’s degree or higher and 5+ years of experience in electrical engineering</p></li><li><p style="">Ability to understand and produce power and control schematics and single line diagrams using tools such as AutoCAD, etc. </p></li><li><p style="">Fluent in software specific to protection studies, such as ETAP or SKM</p></li><li><p style="">Understanding of electrical installation standards, including NFPA 70, NFPA 855, and UL 9540</p></li><li><p style="">Demonstrated experience in electric power generation, distribution, energy storage, or drivetrains</p></li><li><p style="">Electrical system design experience in a product development environment; familiarity with product safety standards such as UL 508A and UL 1741 a plus</p></li><li><p style="">Discipline around high-voltage (1500 V) and high-current (&gt; 2 kA); experience with NFPA 70E a plus.</p></li><li><p style="">Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain design decisions, summarize observations, and absorb information and requirements from other teams</p></li></ul><p style=""></p><p style=""><em>#LI-Onsite</em></p><p style=""><em>#LI-AB1</em></p><p style=""></p><p style="">Humanity is a cornerstone of Form Energy’s culture, and we make sure our compensation and benefits reflect that. Form Energy offers competitive salaries, stock options, and a holistic benefits package to ensure all employees have what they need to thrive while working here. </p><p style=""></p><p style="">When it comes to you and your family’s health, we cover 100% of medical, dental, and vision premiums for full-time employees - and 80% of healthcare premiums for dependents. This starts from day one. We also offer at least 12 weeks of paid leave for new parents (up to 20 weeks for birthing parents), and generous vacation policies to give employees time to recharge when needed. </p><p style=""></p><p style="">To build a clean and equitable energy future, we need everyone at the table. We strive to form a team as diverse as the communities we will serve with our technology, and are committed to maintaining an inclusive environment for all employees. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply to our open jobs.</p>

Senior Electrical Engineer

<p></p><h3>ABOUT NEW ENERGY NEXUS</h3><p>New Energy Nexus (NEX) is an international not-for-profit organization that supports clean energy entrepreneurs with funds, accelerators and networks. We started in California and have expanded operations into China, India, Southeast Asia, East and West Africa, and Australia. Our mission is to support diverse entrepreneurs to drive innovation and build equity in the global clean energy economy. Our goal is to support 100,000 startups to succeed by 2030 – a decisive decade to surface and support as many climate solutions as possible. Through our global network, we directly boost hundreds of entrepreneurs annually while uplifting thousands more. Since 2004, New Energy Nexus (up until recently known as California Clean Energy Fund) has leveraged $1.5 billion in investment, supported over 900 clean energy startups, and launched industry-leading centers for solution collaboration.</p><p></p><h3>ABOUT THE ROLE &amp; OPPORTUNITY</h3><p>New Energy Nexus California (NEX CA) is seeking a candidate who will bring a solid background in Grants Administration Management, specifically in configuring grants management platforms such as SmartSimple, to manage the full life cycle of grant-making programs, from application to contracting, invoicing, reporting, and final project close-out. This is a position that requires technical and project management skills related to coding and system configuration in order to update and improve NEX CA’s existing grant management database hosted on SmartSimple. This role will be part of a Grants Management Team along with other Grants Management and Compliance staff. The successful candidate will have a "roll-up-the-sleeves" attitude, who is inherently hands-on and ready to take the next step forward in their career, and help position us for growth in order to scale our existing and new programs.</p><p></p><h3>A TYPICAL DAY</h3><p>A day in the life of the Grants Administration Manager could include liaising with SmartSimple Technical Support to configure new instances on the grants management database or troubleshoot user errors, developing guides and updating user manuals to train applicants, awardees, or other teammates interfacing with the platform, and conducting quality checks on invoicing and contracting packages with regards completeness and accuracy of data pulled from SmartSimple. There will also be opportunities to attend program events,visit technology development, testing or demonstration sites of awardees and clean energy entrepreneurs.</p><p></p><h3>WORKING AT NEW ENERGY NEXUS</h3><p>Working at New Energy Nexus California is an opportunity to make a positive impact in the clean energy industry and be part of a supportive and forward-thinking community. It will offer an innovative and collaborative work environment, fostering networking opportunities and providing diverse roles that allow for personal and professional growth.</p><p>This job is located in Berkeley, CA. New Energy Nexus California offers a flexible work environment with this position being based in Oakland/Bay Area, CA and with an expectation to work out of our physical office minimum 2 designated days a week. Unfortunately, relocation assistance is not available for this role.</p><p></p><h3>CORE RESPONSIBILITIES </h3><p><strong>Grants Management Systems</strong></p><p>Oversee development and maintenance of grants management databases, specifically, the cloud-based SmartSimple platform to ensure optimal performance for all end-users (internal and external): </p><ul> <li>Manage user accounts, permissions, access rights, system maintenance, and configuration. </li> <li>Full grant-cycle management &amp; tracking, including applications, invoicing, and progress reports. </li> <li>Ensure data quality and manage data retrieval, coding and reporting, particularly with respect to compliance, monitoring and evaluation.</li> <li>Optimize and streamline the user experience, including developing user guidance, streamlining navigation, offering technical support, and providing troubleshooting assistance for internal and external system users.</li> <li>Capacity building and training related to use of grants management database for both internal staff and external users</li> <li>Manage system development in order to meet program needs such as Monitoring &amp; Evaluation, impact measurement and reporting, invoicing and contracting workflows.</li> <li>Serve as the primary liaison with SmartSimple technical support as needed.</li> </ul><p></p><p>Other responsibilities related to grants management systems include:</p><ul> <li>Coordinate with Programs, Finance and Grants Management Teams to develop and improve process workflows related to grants administration</li> <li>Maintain and update filing systems related to contracts and invoices, ensuring that documentation is well organized and easily accessible to relevant stakeholders across the various cloud-based filing systems (Dropbox, Google Drive, and SmartSimple)</li> <li>Stay abreast of industry developments in grants management systems in order to recommend improvements to existing systems and processes or transition to new systems so that NEX CA is well positioned to support new and developing programs</li> </ul><p></p><p><strong>Grants Administration and Compliance</strong></p><ul> <li>Under the direction of the Director of Program Finance and Compliance, monitor status of program budget spending and work with Program Leads to ensure appropriate spend rate for awardees and contractors</li> <li>Extract, analyze, and organize grants data from grants management systems into coherent and accurate reports that meet reporting requirements of funders</li> <li>Provide support with the grant payment process for awarded grants, including informing and communicating with grantees about contract and payment procedures</li> <li>Ensure applicant and awardee status is tracked, facilitate awardee status checks with Program Leads and consult on actions to take with poor performance</li> <li>Flag potential conflicts of interest and other compliance issues, iterate on and maintain processes for compliance and best practices</li> </ul><ul> <li>In collaboration with Program Leads, support awardees with budget development, contract creation, and execution, serving as subject matter expert on awardee budgets for government grants and overseeing budget amendments</li> <li>Ensure quality control and compliance for invoice packages and contracts</li> <li>Maintain tracking spreadsheets, streamlining files and processes</li> <li>Support grant and program audits as required</li> </ul><p><strong>Requirements</strong></p><h3>REQUIRED SKILLS FOR THE ROLE</h3><ul> <li>4+ years of grants administration experience specifically related to administering government funding, complex agreement packages, managing compliance with flow down terms, and participating in clean audits</li> <li>2+ years of experience administering and configuring a SmartSimple grants management database</li> <li>Experience with contract review and revision related to sub-grantees and sub-awardees</li> <li>Experience in providing training for contract administration or grant management processes</li> <li>Strong written and verbal communication skills</li> <li>Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to proactively anticipate needs</li> <li>Ability to complete multiple tasks with competing deadlines and priorities</li> <li>Strong attention to detail, file organization, and project management skills</li> <li>Team player with respect for others and ability to work independently</li> <li>Enthusiasm for and the ability to easily adapt to change</li> <li>Eagerness to grow with the position as the department’s needs evolve</li> <li>Strong interpersonal skills, tolerance, flexibility, cooperativeness, and humor</li> <li>Ability to adapt in a fast-paced work environment, prioritize, multitask, and meet competing deadlines</li> <li>Excellent customer service skills with emphasis on respectful and tactful communications</li> <li>Interest in new technologies and the energy transition</li> </ul><p><strong>Benefits</strong></p><h3>BENEFITS AND COMPENSATION</h3><p>Competitive compensation of <strong>$105-$120k </strong>annually plus generous benefits including, medical, dental, vision, unlimited PTO, paid holidays and 401(K)</p><p></p><h3>TO APPLY, TIMELINE, AND PROCESS</h3><ul><ul> <li>Submit your resume and responses to our application questions. Cover letter is optional.</li> <li>Application deadline: Priority deadline is <strong>January 28, 2024</strong> and applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until filled. </li> <li> Interview process: Qualified applicants will participate in a series of interviews via Zoom. There will be 2-3 rounds of interviews.</li> <li>Accommodation: If you require accommodations during the interview process, please contact us with your request.</li> </ul></ul><p></p><p>New Energy Nexus is an equal employment opportunity employer and does not discriminate against applicants or employees because of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, citizenship status, disability status, genetic information, sexual orientation, or gender identity or expression of an otherwise qualified individual, or membership in any other class protected by applicable law. New Energy Nexus hires and promotes individuals on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled. We strongly encourage diverse applicants to apply.</p><p></p><p></p>

NEX is the world’s leading ecosystem of funds &amp; accelerators supporting clean energy entrepreneurs, from emerging tech through to clean energy deployment &amp; adoption

Grants Administration Manager

<div><div><p>Batteries have a big role to play in tackling the climate crisis, and it’s essential to make sure that they’re safe and reliable to operate.</p><p>At Zitara (YCombinator S20), we build cutting-edge software solutions that empower companies to deeply understand their batteries, both in design and deployment. It’s all part of our work to enable a renewable energy revolution, powered by safer batteries, at a lower cost, with less waste. Our customers operate &gt;$100M deployments of batteries in satellites, EVs, and renewable energy storage installations.</p><p>Our team brings top researchers in physics-based battery algorithms together with seasoned software engineers to build safety-critical firmware and large scale machine learning systems. We bring with us decades of experience from companies like Tesla, Cruise, and Google.</p></div></div><div><h2>Role</h2><p>The Embedded Systems team is responsible for developing and delivering Zitara Live, our industry-leading software package to deliver adaptive controls software onboard batteries across EV, aerospace, IoT, utility-scale storage applications, and beyond. Zitara Live algorithms are powered by Zitara's proprietary battery models, which apply advanced numerical methods to provide precise, actionable battery insight. </p><p>Zitara Live serves a broad range of customers operating across diverse platforms, from small embedded microcontrollers to full POSIX server systems, while meeting high-assurance guarantees and hard real-time requirements. Our work supports flexibility, efficiency, and robustness, and spans all phases of the software lifecycle across algorithm implementation, verification and testing, application packaging for distribution, and incorporating customer feedback.</p><p>We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Embedded Systems team. In this role you will architect and implement complex algorithmic firmware and systems-level software; design and create solutions to make core functionality available across a variety of systems and platforms; and provide guidance on the practical realities of delivering real-time software to multiple customers.</p><p>The nature of Zitara Live as a product that supplies capability to our customers’ systems means that our work spans the full range of the software/firmware stack, from bare-metal embedded contexts all the way up to distributed server-based applications. Success in this role can take several forms, and we are interested in candidates with deep domain expertise as well as candidates with a broad experience base.</p><h2>Responsibilities</h2><ul><li>Understand complex problems across multiple disciplines and apply software engineering methodology to attack them.</li><li>Architect and Implement software to meet high-assurance and reliability requirements in portable C</li><li>Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate new product features and evaluate customer requirements.</li><li>Collaborate with project and product management to scope and schedule work to meet customer needs.</li><li>Create testing and verification frameworks to characterize performance and correctness across multiple targets.</li><li>Proactively identify opportunities for product functionality, development process, and team function.</li><li>Develop applications and systems to package and distribute the Zitara Live product to customers.</li><li>Generate concise customer-facing documentation and reference materials.</li><li>Provide mentorship and guidance to junior engineers.</li></ul><h2>Qualifications</h2><ul><li>Bachelors in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent.</li><li>6+ years experience in industry software development in systems level C.</li><li>Creative problem solving to meet customer needs under limited resource and engineering constraints.</li><li>Track record of technical leadership and product ownership.</li><li>Experience shipping an embedded product to customers.</li><li>Strong product mindset with experience meeting customer needs.</li><li>Demonstrated ability to lead the development of complex software/firmware systems.</li><li>Experience with embedded toolchains and build systems.</li><li>Familiarity with basic git workflows for collaborative software development.</li><li>Clear and effective written and interpersonal communication skills.</li></ul><h2>Bonus Qualifications</h2><ul><li>Familiarity with battery or energy systems applications.</li><li>Familiarity with analog sensing and signals.</li><li>Experience with test-driven development for embedded systems and hardware-in-the-loop testing.</li><li>Practical knowledge of digital signal protocols such as I2C, SPI, and CAN.</li><li>Practical knowledge of network messaging protocols, such as MQTT or otherwise.</li><li>Experience with Rust.</li><li>Experience with Bazel.</li><li>Working knowledge of control systems (eg PID control or state estimation).</li><li>Knowledge of numerical methods and pitfalls with floating point math.</li><li>Experience in high assurance systems development (eg, ISO26262 or DO178).</li></ul><h2>What We Offer</h2><ul><li>A full-time position, working from our office in San Francisco, CA or remotely.</li><li>Salary range $170,000 to $220,000 annual base.</li><li>Health, Dental, and Vision care for you and your family.</li><li>A 401k savings plan.</li><li>“Unlimited PTO” vacation policy.</li><li>Excellent colleagues that are interested in your happiness and growth.</li></ul></div>

Staff Software Engineer | Embedded Systems 

<h1>User-interface, user-experience (UI/UX) designer</h1><h3>Location: San Francisco, CA  / Remote</h3><p>Salary: 120k-150k</p><p>Job Type: Full-time</p><p>Experience: 4+ years</p><h1>Company</h1><p>In order to keep climate change to 1.5°C, we’ll need 30% of global GDP (all of energy generation and transportation) to run on batteries by 2035.</p><p>Zitara Technologies (YCombinator S20) builds predictive battery management software for transportation and energy customers with large deployments. Our customers operate &gt;$100M deployments of batteries in satellites, EVs, and renewable energy storage installations.</p><p>Our team brings top researchers in physics-based battery algorithms together with seasoned software engineers to build safety-critical firmware and large scale machine learning systems. We bring with us decades of experience from companies like Tesla, Facebook, and Google.</p><h1>Role</h1><p>Zitara operates at the intersection of energy storage and application. Our software delivers the high-performance models and tools necessary for our customers to operate their battery systems safely and profitably. We are looking for a user-interface and user-experience (UI/UX) lead to guide the design of <a href="https://www.zitara.com/zitara-studio">Zitara Studio</a>, our web-based engineering software suite. You will work closely with product and engineering to create designs for implementation by frontend engineers and develop the strategy for integrating new capabilities as we grow.</p><h1>Responsibilities</h1><ul><li>Acting as an individual contributor, design the UI/UX deliverables necessary to expand the capabilities available to Zitara Studio customers, including interfaces for controlling technical software</li><li>Create a roadmap for the UI/UX of Zitara Studio to deliver planned product features</li><li>Collaborate with frontend developers to ensure feasibility and alignment with development practices.</li><li>Participate in regular reviews with the frontend team to realize design improvements efficiently within the context of a small team</li><li>Support Zitara’s marketing efforts by advising our consultants on improvements to our public facing website and content</li></ul><h1>Qualifications</h1><ul><li>4+ years experience in UI/UX design for web-based applications.</li><li>2+ years experience producing UI designs in wireframe software for implementation by engineers</li><li>Familiarity with HTML/CSS and web-based projects, demonstrating an understanding of how designs translate into web development.</li><li>Experience building systems for highly-technical audiences including presentation of: large volumes of textual or structured data; long-running workflows; intermediate or unfinished states; and raw data access.</li><li>Opinionated organization of user-created entities. </li><li>Ability to identify tradeoffs that balance design and pace in a fast-moving startup environment.</li><li>Superior written and verbal communication skills</li></ul><h1>Preferred Additional Qualifications</h1><ul><li>2+ years experience in UI/UX design for technical software, preferably delivered on the web, such as Onshape, Tableau, or Figma</li><li>Familiarity with battery power industries (EVs, drones, ESS)</li><li>Experience with designing for platform software</li><li>Familiarity with Material design, MUI a plus.</li><li>Experience developing advanced data visualizations and technical dashboards</li><li>Experience managing a team, including third-party contractors, to deliver projects</li></ul><p> </p><h1>What We Offer</h1><ul><li>A full-time position, working from our office in San Francisco, CA or remotely.</li><li>Competitive pay.</li><li>Health, Dental, and Vision care for you and your family.</li><li>A 401k savings plan.</li><li>“Unlimited PTO” vacation policy.</li><li>Excellent colleagues that are interested in your happiness and growth.</li></ul><p> </p>

User-interface, user-experience (UI/UX) designer

<h3>Location: San Francisco, CA&nbsp; / Remote</h3>
<p>Job Type: Full-time</p>
<p>Experience: 4+ years</p>
<h1>Company</h1>
<p>In order to keep climate change to 1.5&deg;C, we&rsquo;ll need 30% of global GDP (all of energy generation and transportation) to run on batteries by 2035.</p>
<p>Zitara Technologies (YCombinator S20) builds predictive battery management software for transportation and energy customers with large deployments. Our customers operate &gt;$100M deployments of batteries in satellites, EVs, and renewable energy storage installations.</p>
<p>Our team brings top researchers in physics-based battery algorithms together with seasoned software engineers to build safety-critical firmware and large scale machine learning systems. We bring with us decades of experience from companies like Tesla, Facebook, and Google.</p>
<h1>Role</h1>
<p>Zitara operates at the intersection of energy storage and application. Our software delivers the high-performance models and tools necessary for our customers to operate their battery systems safely and profitably. We are looking for a user-interface and user-experience (UI/UX) lead to guide the design of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.zitara.com/zitara-studio">Zitara Studio</a>, our web-based engineering software suite. You will work closely with product and engineering to create designs for implementation by frontend engineers and develop the strategy for integrating new capabilities as we grow.</p>
<h1>Responsibilities</h1>
<ul>
<li>Acting as an individual contributor, design the UI/UX deliverables necessary to expand the capabilities available to Zitara Studio customers, including interfaces for controlling technical software</li>
<li>Create a roadmap for the UI/UX of Zitara Studio to deliver planned product features</li>
<li>Collaborate with frontend developers to ensure feasibility and alignment with development practices.</li>
<li>Participate in regular reviews with the frontend team to realize design improvements efficiently within the context of a small team</li>
<li>Support Zitara&rsquo;s marketing efforts by advising our consultants on improvements to our public facing website and content</li>
</ul>
<h1>Qualifications</h1>
<ul>
<li>4+ years experience in UI/UX design for web-based applications.</li>
<li>2+ years experience producing UI designs in wireframe software for implementation by engineers</li>
<li>Familiarity with HTML/CSS and web-based projects, demonstrating an understanding of how designs translate into web development.</li>
<li>Experience building systems for highly-technical audiences including presentation of: large volumes of textual or structured data; long-running workflows; intermediate or unfinished states; and raw data access.</li>
<li>Opinionated organization of user-created entities.&nbsp;</li>
<li>Ability to identify tradeoffs that balance design and pace in a fast-moving startup environment.</li>
<li>Superior written and verbal communication skills</li>
</ul>
<h1>Preferred Additional Qualifications</h1>
<ul>
<li>2+ years experience in UI/UX design for technical software, preferably delivered on the web, such as Onshape, Tableau, or Figma</li>
<li>Familiarity with Material design, MUI a plus.</li>
<li>Experience developing advanced data visualizations and technical dashboards</li>
<li>Experience managing a team, including third-party contractors, to deliver projects</li>
</ul>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h1>What We Offer</h1>
<ul>
<li>A full-time position, working from our office in San Francisco, CA or remotely.</li>
<li>Competitive pay.</li>
<li>Health, Dental, and Vision care for you and your family.</li>
<li>A 401k savings plan.</li>
<li>&ldquo;Unlimited PTO&rdquo; vacation policy.</li>
<li>Excellent colleagues that are interested in your happiness and growth.</li>
</ul>

<h1>Company</h1><p>In order to keep climate change to 1.5°C, we’ll need 30% of global GDP (all of energy generation and transportation) to run on batteries by 2035.</p><p> </p><p>Zitara Technologies (YCombinator S20) builds predictive battery management software for transportation and energy customers with large deployments. Our customers operate &gt;$100M deployments of batteries in satellites, EVs, and renewable energy storage installations.</p><p> </p><p>Our team brings top researchers in physics-based battery algorithms together with seasoned software engineers to build safety-critical firmware and large scale machine learning systems. We bring with us decades of experience from companies like Tesla, Facebook, and Google.</p><h1>Role</h1><p>We're looking for a multidisciplinary software and simulation engineer who can draw from academic literature, practical engineering tools, and domain-specific data and models to design, analyze, and improve battery modeling and simulation software.</p><p> </p><p>Zitara's software spans cutting-edge battery science, high-performance data infrastructure, complex modeling and learning systems, and safety-critical onboard firmware.  We're looking for a software engineer who can work across these areas of expertise to build the algorithms behind our core technology.</p><p> </p><p>In this role, you will work closely with our battery scientists and controls engineers to refine and improve the robustness of scale up our simulation and prediction software.  You will also have the opportunity to work with our embedded team to adapt the algorithms you design for running in real-time battery management systems.</p><p> </p><h1>Responsibilities</h1><ul><li>Work with our battery scientists and controls engineers to identify and implement improvements in our simulation and signal processing algorithms</li><li>Write robust, well-tested signal processing, simulation, and optimization software in Python, Rust, and C / C++</li><li>Provide guidance and mentorship to the larger organization on system architecture, design for testability, and building maintainable software.</li><li>Design and communicate complex software architecture through written documentation and in-person discussion</li><li>Work with product and project management to scope and plan around development initiatives, and connect results to our customer-facing feature roadmap</li></ul><h1>Qualifications</h1><ul><li>7+ years of experience in writing profession Python software following modern best practices</li><li>Experience architecting simulation workflows, including efficient simulation engines, validation, visualization, and metrics aggregation software</li><li>BS, MS, or Ph.D in Computer Science, Chemistry / Chemical Engineering, Physics or other related engineering discipline.</li><li>Clear and effective written and interpersonal communication skills</li></ul><h1>Preferred Additional Qualifications</h1><ul><li>Experience with Kalman Filtering or other statistical methods</li><li>Practical implementation experience with numerical methods for differential equations</li><li>Experience with Rust</li><li>Experience with Bazel</li><li>Familiarity with battery or energy systems applications</li></ul><p> </p><p>Note: this position may be filled by a candidate either remote or hybrid in-person in our SF office. In-person candidates will be preferred, and remote candidates will need to demonstrate superlative organizational and communication skills.</p><h1>What We Offer</h1><ul><li>A full-time position, working from our office in San Francisco, CA or remotely.</li><li>Competitive pay.</li><li>Health, Dental, and Vision care for you and your family.</li><li>A 401k savings plan.</li><li>“Unlimited PTO” vacation policy.</li><li>Excellent colleagues that are interested in your happiness and growth.</li></ul><p> </p>

Staff Simulation Software Engineer

<h1>Company</h1><p>In order to keep climate change to 1.5°C, we’ll need 30% of global GDP (all of energy generation and transportation) to run on batteries by 2035.</p><p>Zitara Technologies (YCombinator S20) builds predictive battery management software for transportation and energy customers with large deployments. Our customers operate &gt;$100M deployments of batteries in satellites, EVs, and renewable energy storage installations.</p><p>Our team brings top researchers in physics-based battery algorithms together with seasoned software engineers to build safety-critical firmware and large scale machine learning systems. We bring with us decades of experience from companies like Tesla, Facebook, and Google.</p><h1>Role</h1><p>We're looking for a multidisciplinary software and simulation engineer who can draw from academic literature, practical engineering tools, and domain-specific data and models to design, analyze, and improve battery modeling and simulation software.</p><p>Zitara's software spans cutting-edge battery science, high-performance data infrastructure, complex modeling and learning systems, and safety-critical onboard firmware.  We're looking for a software engineer who can work across these areas of expertise to build the algorithms behind our core technology.</p><p>In this role, you will work closely with our battery scientists and controls engineers to scale up our simulation and prediction software.  You will also have the opportunity to work with our embedded team to adapt the algorithms you design for running in real-time battery management systems.</p><p> </p><h1>Responsibilities</h1><ul><li>Design, implement, and tune battery state estimation algorithms for predicting battery SoC, capacity fade, and power fade.</li><li>Collaborate with our battery science team to design and evaluate test plans that enable robust and accurate battery models.</li><li>Modeling</li><li>Design, tune, and implement real-time estimation algorithms (e.g. Kalman filters) </li><li>Work closely with embedded software engineers to help realize your algorithms in resource constrained environments.</li></ul><h1>Qualifications</h1><ul><li>5+ years working in BMS design or related work on battery state estimation</li><li>3+ years writing professional software in Python.</li><li>Solid understanding of the controls and estimation fundamentals such as signal processing, Kalman filtering, and related concepts from statistics and optimization.</li><li>BS, MS, or Ph.D in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering,, Chemistry / Chemical Engineering, Physics or other related engineering discipline.</li><li>Clear and effective written and interpersonal communication skills</li></ul><h1>Preferred Additional Qualifications</h1><ul><li>Experience programming in C or C++</li><li>Experience in high assurance systems development (eg, ISO26262 or DO178)</li></ul><p> </p><p>Note: this position may be filled by a candidate either remote or hybrid in-person in our SF office. In-person candidates will be preferred, and remote candidates will need to demonstrate superlative organizational and communication skills.</p><h1>What We Offer</h1><ul><li>A full-time position, working from our office in San Francisco, CA or remotely.</li><li>Competitive pay.</li><li>Health, Dental, and Vision care for you and your family.</li><li>A 401k savings plan.</li><li>“Unlimited PTO” vacation policy.</li><li>Excellent colleagues that are interested in your happiness and growth.</li></ul><p> </p>

BMS Algorithms Engineer

<div class="header">&nbsp;</div>
<div class="description">
<h2>Company</h2>
<p>In order to keep climate change to 1.5&deg;C, we&rsquo;ll need 30% of global GDP (all of energy generation and transportation) to run on batteries by 2035.</p>
<p>Zitara Technologies (YCombinator S20) builds predictive battery management software for transportation and energy customers with large deployments. Our customers operate &gt;$100M deployments of batteries in satellites, EVs, and renewable energy storage installations.</p>
<p>Our team brings top researchers in physics-based battery algorithms together with seasoned software engineers to build safety-critical firmware and large scale machine learning systems. We bring with us decades of experience from companies like Tesla, Facebook, and Google.</p>
<h2>Role</h2>
<p>We're looking for a multidisciplinary software and simulation engineer who can draw from academic literature, practical engineering tools, and domain-specific data and models to design, analyze, and improve battery modeling and simulation software.</p>
<p>Zitara's software spans cutting-edge battery science, high-performance data infrastructure, complex modeling and learning systems, and safety-critical onboard firmware. We're looking for a software engineer who can work across these areas of expertise to build the algorithms behind our core technology.</p>
<p>In this role, you will work closely with our battery scientists and controls engineers to scale up our simulation and prediction software. You will also have the opportunity to work with our embedded team to adapt the algorithms you design for running in real-time battery management systems.</p>
<h2>Responsibilities</h2>
<ul>
<li>Design, implement, and tune battery state estimation algorithms for predicting battery SoC, capacity fade, and power fade.</li>
<li>Collaborate with our battery science team to design and evaluate test plans that enable robust and accurate battery models.</li>
<li>Modeling</li>
<li>Design, tune, and implement real-time estimation algorithms (e.g. Kalman filters)</li>
<li>Work closely with embedded software engineers to help realize your algorithms in resource constrained environments.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Qualifications</h2>
<ul>
<li>5+ years working in BMS design or related work on battery state estimation</li>
<li>3+ years writing professional software in Python.</li>
<li>Solid understanding of the controls and estimation fundamentals such as signal processing, Kalman filtering, and related concepts from statistics and optimization.</li>
<li>BS, MS, or Ph.D in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering,, Chemistry / Chemical Engineering, Physics or other related engineering discipline.</li>
<li>Clear and effective written and interpersonal communication skills</li>
</ul>
<h2>Preferred Additional Qualifications</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Experience programming in C or C++</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Experience in high assurance systems development (eg, ISO26262 or DO178)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>Note: this position may be filled by a candidate either remote or hybrid in-person in our SF office. In-person candidates will be preferred, and remote candidates will need to demonstrate superlative organizational and communication skills.</strong></p>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>What We Offer</h2>
<ul>
<li>A full-time position, working from our office in San Francisco, CA or remotely.</li>
<li>Competitive pay.</li>
<li>Health, Dental, and Vision care for you and your family.</li>
<li>A 401k savings plan.</li>
<li>&ldquo;Unlimited PTO&rdquo; vacation policy.</li>
<li>Excellent colleagues that are interested in your happiness and growth.</li>
</ul>
</div>

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