<p>Salary: $130,000-$160,000</p><p>Location: San Francisco, CA</p><p>Job Type: Full-time</p><p>Experience: 5+ 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> </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 Battery Lab Manager to drive battery test lab activity schedules, manage the test equipment, and ensure the accuracy and quality of the team’s work product. As a key member of our Lab Operations team, you will manage and inspire a team of technicians to deliver high quality test data and manage day to day tasks to accomplish overall program goals. The ideal candidate is someone who takes initiative, has an intuition for continuous improvement of lab workflow and processes, uses common sense, and takes a creative and resourceful approach to solving problems.</p><h1>Responsibilities</h1><ul><li>Build, train and manage a team of battery lab technicians and support their growth</li><li>Ensure tests are conducted safely, correctly, and efficiently to drive completion of test programs on schedule </li><li>Ensure the technical quality of all lab test results, compliance of lab activities with test standards, and that completed tests meet all customer requirements</li><li>Lab equipment capacity planning for customer test program operations</li><li>Setup, commissioning, and validation of new test equipment </li><li>Promote a culture of safety by identifying and mitigating risk</li><li>Maintain the lab equipment through the coordination of regular tool calibration, preventative maintenance, and service events</li><li>Identify and track metrics to monitor performance and highlight opportunities for continuous improvement</li><li>Maintain a high level of professionalism and cleanliness within the team and lab</li></ul><h1>Qualifications</h1><ul><li>5+ years of lab management experience (battery lab experience a plus)</li><li>Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in an engineering field (such as electrical, mechanical industrial)</li><li>Experience with safety-critical lab processes and technician training (e.g. high voltage lab experience)</li><li>Demonstrated ability to lead a team to overcome technical challenges</li><li>Experience with project management process and software (Jira, Asana, etc.)</li><li>Ability to troubleshoot issues with testing and creatively resolve unforeseen problems</li><li>Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively communicate with a variety of internal customers and support teams</li><li>Superior written and verbal communication skills</li></ul><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>

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

Battery Lab Manager

<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

<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>ROLE AND OPPORTUNITY</h3><p>We are seeking an experienced creative and quantitative professional to lead Impact, Monitoring &amp; Evaluation for New Energy Nexus California (NEX CA) programs funded by government and philanthropy.</p><p>The ideal candidate is passionate about clean energy, innovation, and entrepreneurship, and understands multiple social and economic benefits of a just energy transition and the potential for social impact and energy equity outcomes that can result from scaling new clean energy technology. She/he/they are a creative and incisive evaluation strategist who is comfortable designing impact measurement and monitoring &amp; evaluation frameworks for complex, non-linear strategies. </p><p>Building on existing tools including templates, an established database, and various reporting formats, we are looking for someone who will play a pivotal role within the NEX CA team to centralize data collection, help bring alignment across new and mature programs, and manage impact evaluations.</p><p></p><h3>A TYPICAL DAY</h3><p>A day in the life of the Impact, Monitoring &amp; Evaluation Manager could include reviewing a rate-payer benefit framework grant deliverable from an early stage startup and entering key metrics into airtable, researching job creation and cost savings on utility bills from scaling grid-scale storage, meeting with the CA Grants Administration Manager to iterate on the design of a new workflow in the Grants Management System, and working with the Communications Manager to draft a blurb for a press release by extracting a key data insight from your ongoing analysis and framing its impact for a public audience.</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>In addition, candidates for this role should be comfortable with international travel, as the position may involve travel to support New Energy Nexus’s work in the Global South.</p><p></p><h3>CORE RESPONSIBILITIES</h3><p><strong>Impact Evaluation</strong></p><ul> <li>Collect data from awardees, including training, managing templates, conducting quality assurance, and support for reporting to funders. </li> <li>Conduct data analysis to connect project outcomes to larger energy transition and economic development trends. Investigate patterns in the data and glean insights that demonstrate environmental, social, and economic impacts. Prepare data visuals, develop content for reporting requirements and communications collateral. </li> <li>In collaboration with Program Leads and Communications Manager, author impact reports for individual programs and NEX CA more broadly. Coordinate content generation, design, and review process across Grants Management, Compliance, Communications, and Program teams.</li> <li>Iterate upon existing metrics to inform our reporting and strategic communication efforts within and beyond NEX CA. </li> <li>Act as lead representative for CA programs on NEX global impact working group to foster organizational alignment. Systems development, management, and best practices</li> <li>In close collaboration with the CA Grants Administration Manager, support the design and development of new and existing information databases related to impact and M&amp;E data. </li> </ul><ul><li>Track progress on core deliverables, and roll information up and down for different stakeholders. Streamline data collection and enable export of quality controlled information.</li></ul><ul><li>Act as the “gatekeeper” of all data being utilized for fundraising and storytelling efforts. Upholds internal controls with attention to accuracy for all qualitative and quantitative data being used in external or internal communications. </li></ul><p></p><p><strong>Monitoring &amp; Evaluation Alignment</strong></p><ul> <li>Develop and ensure alignment on shared indicators and metrics used across different programs. Oversee collaborative design and use of quantitative and qualitative grant outcomes and indicators to track progress that demonstrate results and areas of growth.</li> <li>Manage evaluation and learning projects, including managing consultants.</li> <li>Provide measurement and evaluation strategy &amp; leadership for our continuous work on energy equity and social impact: support deepening incorporation of diversity, equity and inclusion racial, social and environmental justice approaches and metrics into NEX CA’s work.</li> <li>Provide subject matter expertise for proposals.</li> <li>Respond to ad hoc requests for reports, memos, slide decks and other materials to communicate with a variety of stakeholders including Fundraising, Head of Partnerships, Events and Brand, NEX Board of Directors, NEX fundraising efforts, funders, and government donors.</li> </ul><p><strong>Requirements</strong></p><h3>REQUIRED SKILLS</h3><ul> <li>Undergraduate degree required with 4+ years of relevant, professional experience focused on monitoring, evaluation, and learning.</li> <li>Adept with clean energy impact reporting metrics, e.g. carbon accounting, life cycle assessment, GHG inventories, job creation, cost reduction, race and demographics, with comfort making projections.</li> <li>Strong project manager skilled at quantitative and qualitative data gathering and analysis. Excellent writing, editing, and communications skills.</li> <li>Experience building databases and streamlining processes for compiling information from multiple sources.</li> <li>Experience working in climate change, clean energy, public policy, economic development, and/or racial and social justice in philanthropic, NGO, coalition, legislative or advocacy communities.</li> <li>Collaborative with strong facilitation, interpersonal, intercultural and project management skills, with a record of success in matrix environments where there are not direct reporting relationships.</li> <li>Enthusiastic and natural team player with the ability to work with cross-functional, virtual, and diverse teams. </li> <li>High levels of proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, G-Suite, Asana, Databases.</li> </ul><p></p><h3>BONUS SKILLS</h3><ul><li>Experience with government reporting and compliance.</li></ul><p><strong>Benefits</strong></p><h3>BENEFITS AND COMPENSATION</h3><p>Competitive compensation of <strong>$90k-$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. Unfortunately New Energy Nexus will not be able to support an employment Visa at this time.</p><p></p><p></p>

Impact, Monitoring & Evaluation Manager

<h2>Company</h2><p>Batteries have a big role to play in tackling the climate crisis, and it’s essential to make sure that they’re profitable, safe and reliable to operate. </p><p>At Zitara Technologies (YCombinator S20), we build cutting-edge software solutions that empower companies to deeply understand their batteries, both in design and deployment.  Our customers operate &gt;$100M deployments of batteries in e-mobility, energy storage systems, consumer electronics, drones, satellites and beyond.  Our mission is to enable and accelerate an energy storage and renewable energy revolution, powered by safer batteries, at lower cost, and with less waste.  Join us!</p><h2>Role</h2><p>We are looking for a mission-driven, self-motivated sales leader who will grow Zitara’s customer base and revenue by sourcing and qualifying leads, developing customers’ interest in Zitara’s products and roadmap, and driving deals to a successful close.  </p><p>You will start as an individual contributor, but as one of the revenue team’s first hires, you will be asked and empowered to help shape the commercial vision and team.  You should be comfortable with risk, and with making recommendations and taking action with incomplete information.  </p><p>Your broad mandate will be to identify and initiate engagements that maximize the various value-propositions of Zitara’s world-leading technologies across battery applications including, but not limited to, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, light electric vehicles, drones, satellites, and beyond. </p><p>This role requires an entrepreneurial mindset, intellectual curiosity, strategic thinking, teamwork – and a deep understanding of prospective customers’ needs across a diverse range of business verticals and applications.  To succeed, you will need to concisely communicate technical and programmatic details up and down prospective customers’ org charts. </p><p>A technical background is preferred, but not required.  A thorough understanding of batteries, battery management systems, and/or power management systems will be necessary, over time if not immediately.  </p><p>Demonstrated experience selling semiconductors and/or embedded software solutions would be tremendously helpful, particularly if you sold into one or more of the following markets: Internet of Things (IoT), light electric vehicles, drones, and/or satellites.</p><p>This is a unique opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a category defining startup as it matures from technology development to commercial deployment.  We will grow together as a young, promising start-up and as a small, tight-knit revenue team in an exciting and emerging industry.  </p><h2>Responsibilities</h2><ul><li>Drive a full-cycle sales process.  Prospect, discover, qualify, pitch, persuade, negotiate and close new customers.   </li><li>Generate leads by leveraging and expanding your professional network and contributing to Zitara’s marketing initiatives </li><li>Ask about prospective customers’ products, pain points and purchasing processes</li><li>Develop and execute criteria to qualify customers</li><li>Pitch Zitara’s products, services and roadmap, and persuade potential customers to move forward with Zitara</li><li>Collaborate cross-functionally to define engagements and draft statements of work</li><li>Negotiate and close contracts, with the support of Zitara’s outside counsel</li><li>Collaborate with account management, applications engineering, and operations teammates to launch new customers</li><li>Update leadership on the status and progress of deals, and contribute to the design and execution of go-to-market strategies.</li><li>Be the “voice of the customer,” loud and clear.  Develop an in-depth understanding of customer needs across industries, identify product gaps, and contribute to Zitara’s product roadmap by advocating for our customers</li><li>Track industry trends, competitors’ activities, and market dynamics to inform sales strategies</li></ul><h2><strong>Minimum Qualifications</strong></h2><ul><li>4-10 years in technical sales and/or account management – or a background well-suited to an impactful career transition (e.g. a technical background and several years in strategy consulting)</li><li>Demonstrated ability to land and/or expand business-to-business engagements</li><li>Excellent interpersonal and communication skills</li><li>A self-starter.  Excel while working independently (and if applicable, remotely)</li><li>An ability to organize, prioritize, and execute</li><li>Excited to travel to prospective customers and industry events</li><li>Bachelors' degree required</li></ul><h2><strong>Preferred Additional Qualifications</strong></h2><ul><li>Familiarity with lithium-ion batteries, battery management systems, and/or power management systems</li><li>Work experience in industries deploying batteries, including but not limited to IoT devices, electric vehicles, energy storage, drones, satellites and beyond.  </li></ul><h2><strong>What We Offer</strong></h2><ul><li>An opportunity to make an impact, and grow professionally</li><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><strong>Salary: </strong>$120-160k base + $40-90k on-target bonus</p><p><strong>Location:</strong> San Francisco, CA or Remote</p><p><strong>Job Type:</strong> Full-time</p>

Account Executive

<p><span style="font-weight:400;">We are looking</span> for a field applications engineer who will ensure successful integration of Zitara’s battery design and management software in customer applications.</p><p>This person will act as a bridge between customers and internal teams: they will manage and nurture the customer relationship, develop technical solutions for customers, and aid in product design and development as a customer advocate within Zitara. The field applications engineer must combine robust technical skills with strong emotional intelligence to help customers achieve their goals while strengthening their relationship with Zitara.</p><p>The ideal candidate will have technical experience with battery systems, though candidates without battery experience who have strong backgrounds in field applications engineering or in energy-related disciplines may also be considered for the role. Programming experience is helpful but not required for the role.</p><h1>Responsibilities</h1><ul><li>Manage customer relationships with Zitara, serving as a primary point of contact from the end of the sales phase and into active technical engagements.</li><li>Develop a thorough technical understanding of specific customer applications.</li><li>Coordinate internal teams to ensure products and services are delivered to customers in tune and on time.</li><li>Create technical solutions for customers, such as evaluation kits, reference designs, sample code, or technical documentation.</li><li>Guide and mentor customers as they adopt Zitara products, helping them maximize the value of Zitara software when integrated in their applications.</li><li>Provide direct technical support to customers when they encounter difficulty.</li><li>Develop an in-depth understanding of customer needs across the industry, and drive Zitara product development by identifying product gaps and advocating on behalf of our customers internally.</li><li>Directly participate in Zitara’s product planning and development process.</li></ul><h2>Minimum Qualifications</h2><ul><li>Bachelors' in technical subject or equivalent proficiency.</li><li>Three years of technical experience with energy systems, such as:<ul><li>Power electronics.</li><li>Renewable energy.</li><li>Mobility / automotive / aerospace.</li><li>Industrial equipment / robotics.</li></ul></li><li>Clear and effective communication abilities.</li><li>High attention to detail.</li><li>Willingness to travel to meet customers in-person.</li></ul><h2>Preferred Additional Qualifications </h2><ul><li>3+ Years of Experience </li><li>Previous experience in a customer-facing role.</li><li>Technical experience with lithium-ion battery systems, such as:<ul><li>Battery-related applications engineering.</li><li>Battery hardware or software engineering.</li><li>Battery management systems.</li><li>Battery fuel gauge or algorithms design.</li><li>Battery cell research and development.</li></ul></li><li>Comfortable programming in Python and C.</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; Salary range: $175k to $211k</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>

Senior Field Applications Engineer (Battery Systems)

<h2><strong>The Role</strong></h2><p><span style="font-weight:400;">We are looking for experienced, generalist battery systems engineers to drive the successful integration of Zitara’s battery design and management software into customer applications.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight:400;">At Zitara, battery systems engineers are our “power users”. They can leverage their battery industry expertise to develop technical solutions that maximize the value of Zitara software in customer batteries, and do so across a diverse set of energy storage applications. The role combines both internally- and externally-facing responsibilities, where you will drive technical decision-making on customer programs, and aid in overall product planning and development as a customer advocate and key subject-matter expert within Zitara.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight:400;">The battery systems engineer, who will work with a variety of internal and external stakeholders with varying levels of subject-matter expertise, must have both robust technical skills and strong emotional intelligence. The ideal candidate will have direct technical experience with battery systems, such as battery hardware or software engineering, battery cell development, or battery-related technical project management.</span></p><h2><strong>Responsibilities</strong></h2><p><span style="font-weight:400;">Common battery systems engineering responsibilities at Zitara are given below. Specific responsibilities for individual engineers may be geared toward their particular technical strengths and battery systems experience.</span><span style="font-weight:400;"><br></span></p><ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Drive the successful integration of Zitara software in customer battery systems:</span></li><ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Design battery test and instrumentation strategies.</span></li><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Perform analyses on battery data collected in both the lab and field.</span></li><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Create battery system simulations using Zitara design tools.</span></li><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Integrate Zitara software into new compute platforms embedded within customer battery systems.</span></li><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Help customers optimize battery design choices.</span></li></ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Guide and mentor customers as they adopt Zitara products, helping them maximize the value of Zitara software when integrated in their applications.</span></li><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Write externally-facing technical documentation, and provide direct technical support to customers when they encounter difficulty.</span></li><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Support Zitara non-battery-expert engineering staff in making technical product development and operational decisions requiring battery expertise.</span></li><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Develop an in-depth understanding of customer needs across the industry, and drive Zitara product development by identifying product gaps and advocating on behalf of our customers internally.</span></li><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Author technical materials for public consumption, such as white papers and blog entries, that demonstrate Zitara’s capabilities and technical leadership.</span></li><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Directly participate in Zitara’s product planning and development process.</span><span style="font-weight:400;"><br></span></li></ul><h2><strong>Minimum Qualifications</strong></h2><ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Bachelors' in technical subject or equivalent proficiency.</span></li><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Technical experience with lithium ion battery systems, such as:</span></li><ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Battery hardware engineering.</span></li><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Battery software engineering.</span></li><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Battery test engineering.</span></li><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Battery algorithms design.</span></li></ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Project management skills.</span></li><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Clear and effective communication abilities.</span></li><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Willingness to travel to meet customers in-person.</span><span style="font-weight:400;"><br></span></li></ul><h2><strong>Preferred Additional Qualifications</strong></h2><ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Comfortable programming in Python and/or C.</span></li><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Practical experience in customer-facing roles.</span><span style="font-weight:400;"><br></span></li></ul><h2><strong>What We Offer</strong></h2><ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">A full-time position, working three days per week from our office in San Francisco, CA, and up to two days per week remotely (optional).</span></li></ul><ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Competitive pay.</span></li><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Health, Dental, and Vision care for you and your family.</span></li><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">A 401k savings plan.</span></li><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">“Unlimited PTO” vacation policy.</span></li><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Excellent colleagues that are interested in your happiness and growth.</span></li></ul>

Senior Applications Engineer (Battery Systems)

<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

<p>Salary: $140,000 - $170,000</p><p>Location: San Francisco, CA  / Hybrid in US Pacific Time</p><p>Job Type: Full-time</p><p>Experience: 5+ 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> </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 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></ul><p> </p><ul><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> </li><li>Work closely with embedded software engineers to help realize your algorithms in resource constrained environments.</li><li> </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

<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 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

<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>The Company</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-weight:400;">In order to keep climate change to 1.5°C, we’ll need 30% of global GDP to run on batteries by 2035. We’ll need to electrify entire core infrastructures, decarbonizing transportation and energy generation writ large.</span></p><p>Zitara Technologies (YCombinator S20) builds battery design and management software for transportation and energy companies with large deployments. Their customers operate &gt;$100M deployments of batteries in satellites, EVs, and renewable energy storage installations. Zitara recently closed a $12M Series A.</p><p><strong><span style="font-size:14pt;">The Role</span></strong></p><p>We are looking for a “full-funnel” sales engineer who will grow Zitara’s customer base by acquiring new prospective customer leads, developing their interest and engagement with Zitara’s offerings, and driving deals to completion.</p><p>This role requires a deep understanding of prospective customer needs across a diverse set of energy storage applications in order to effectively communicate value and close deals. While a technical background is not required, the candidate must be capable of thoroughly understanding technical concepts related to battery systems design and management, and fluently communicating about them with prospective customers up and down their org charts.</p><p>This is an opportunity and a challenge to grow together with a young and promising start-up in a small, tightly-knit sales organization engaging with an exciting new industry. You will be expected to work with a high level of autonomy, proactively developing our team’s capabilities as we grow.</p><p><strong><span style="font-size:14pt;">Responsibilities</span></strong></p><ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Generate and develop new customer leads by building professional networks within key industries and contributing to marketing initiatives.</span></li><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Determine customer qualifications and qualify incoming leads.</span></li><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Pitch Zitara products and services to prospective customers, maintain deal momentum, and manage deals to completion.</span></li><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Thoroughly understand the needs of prospective customers, and author compelling proposals for business engagements that address those needs, collaborating with internal technical teams.</span></li><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Work with Zitara legal resources to negotiate, revise, and close contracts.</span></li><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Directly report to business leadership on the status and progress of deals, and collaborate on company-level go-to-market strategies.</span></li><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Collaborate with account management, applications engineering, and operations teams to smoothly hand-off newly won deals for product delivery.</span></li><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Develop in-depth knowledge of customer needs across the industry, and drive Zitara product development by identifying product gaps and advocating on behalf of our customers internally.</span></li><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Directly participate in Zitara’s product planning process.</span><span style="font-weight:400;"><br></span></li></ul><p><span style="font-weight:400;"><strong style="font-size:14pt;">Minimum Qualifications</strong><br></span></p><ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Bachelors' degree or equivalent proficiency.</span></li><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Minimum three years of technical sales experience.</span></li><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Clear and effective communication abilities.</span></li><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">High attention to detail.</span></li><li><span style="font-weight:400;">Willingness to travel to attend industry events and meet prospective customers.</span><span style="font-weight:400;"><br></span></li></ul><p><span style="font-weight:400;"><strong style="font-size:14pt;">Preferred Additional Qualifications</strong></span></p><ul><li><span style="font-weight:400;">Familiarity with lithium-ion batteries.</span></li><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Familiarity with industries deploying energy storage assets, such as:</span><ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Electric vehicles</span></li><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Renewable energy / utilities / stationary energy storage</span></li><li style="font-weight:400;">Construction / industrial equipment / power tools</li></ul></li></ul><p><span style="font-weight:400;"><strong style="font-size:14pt;">What We Offer</strong><br></span></p><ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">A full-time position, working from our office in San Francisco or remotely.</span></li><li style="font-weight:400;">Competitive pay.</li><li style="font-weight:400;">Health, dental, and vision care for you and your family.</li><li style="font-weight:400;">A 401k savings plan.</li><li style="font-weight:400;">“Unlimited PTO” vacation policy.</li><li style="font-weight:400;">Excellent colleagues that are interested in your happiness and growth.</li></ul>

Sales Engineer

<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 

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<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>
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<p>Experience programming in C or C++</p>
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<p>Experience in high assurance systems development (eg, ISO26262 or DO178)</p>
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<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>
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</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>
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<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>

<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 is seeking a Head of Programs who will be entrusted with the strategic leadership, oversight, and growth of a portfolio of innovative and impactful programs in climate tech acceleration and deployment. This pivotal role involves guiding programs through conception, fundraising, implementation, and scaling phases, ensuring seamless progression and optimal impact. As a key driver of success, the Head of Programs plays a crucial part in developing new initiatives that align with organizational goals, navigating funding sources and funder relationships, overseeing impact, monitoring and evaluation (M&amp;E) and leveraging the team’s expertise to ensure excellence in the implementation of new and existing programs.</p><p>Additionally, the role includes the management and mentorship of two high-performing teams (Programs and Impact and M&amp;E), and fostering a collaborative and growth-oriented environment. The Head of Programs will adeptly navigate cross-team collaboration, ensuring cohesive efforts and knowledge-sharing across departments. External collaboration with partners and stakeholders is a key facet of this role, requiring effective communication and relationship-building skills to further enhance the impact and reach of our programs.</p><h3>A TYPICAL DAY</h3><p>In your role as the Head of Programs, your typical day will be dynamic and multifaceted. You'll collaborate with program teams to set priorities and review their progress, engage with entrepreneurs and stakeholders to identify opportunities for new initiatives or to grow our existing programming, participate in strategic planning sessions with the leadership team, and address any operational and personnel issues within the program teams. Your day will be marked by strategic thinking, hands-on leadership, and a commitment to supporting diverse entrepreneurs leading the way to 100% clean energy for the 100%.</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 the 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>In addition, candidates for this role should be comfortable with international travel, as the position may involve travel to support New Energy Nexus’s work in the Global South.</p><p></p><h3>CORE RESPONSIBILITIES</h3><p>Program Oversight and Strategic Leadership</p><ul> <li>Provide strategic leadership and oversight to a portfolio of entrepreneur support programs, ensuring alignment with organizational goals. </li> <li>Guide the entire program lifecycle from ideation to scaling, even amid organizational restructuring and evolving team dynamics. </li> <li>Leverage experience in deploying technology and entering new markets, aligning programs with global market needs and trends with the ability to navigate a changing regulatory and funding landscape</li> <li>Translate the strategic vision into actionable plans for program teams. </li> <li>Navigate ambiguity and guide teams to optimize collaboration and efficiency.</li> </ul><p></p><p>Program Quality and Impact</p><ul> <li>Oversee impact reporting and M&amp;E to ensure the capture of data and metrics that drive continuous improvement of program impact and service delivery as well as provide accurate reporting to funders</li> <li>Under the direction of the Managing Director, work with the Head of Partnerships, Events, and Brand to lead program design and evaluation for the purpose of securing new funding and supporting program renewal</li> </ul><p></p><p>Seasoned Team Leadership and Mentorship</p><ul> <li>Provide strong leadership and mentorship to program leads, setting a high standard for excellence in program execution. </li> <li>Support the professional growth and development of team members and foster a collaborative and high-performing team culture. </li> <li>Address operational and personnel issues within program teams promptly and effectively.</li> <li>Create a positive and productive work environment where challenges are met with solutions and teamwork.</li> </ul><p></p><p>Strategic Leadership</p><ul><li>Develop and articulate a clear and compelling strategic vision for a portfolio of programs to build an inclusive innovation ecosystem to support diverse entrepreneurs and a just and equitable clean energy transition in CA and beyond.</li></ul><ul> <li>Develop our ramps and career pathways programming for innovators and entrepreneurs in disadvantaged and frontline communities.</li> <li>Work with our labor and industry partners to implement workforce training partnerships that support the acceleration and deployment of climate solutions alongside the creation of high-quality family-supporting jobs.</li> <li>Provide effective leadership by offering clear and purposeful guidance to program teams.</li> </ul><p><strong>Requirements</strong></p><h3>REQUIRED EXPERIENCE  FOR THE ROLE</h3><ul> <li>Strong dedication to New Energy Nexus's mission, showcasing a profound understanding and alignment with organizational goals</li> <li>8-10 years of extensive experience in climate tech acceleration, deployment and supporting clean energy entrepreneurs, including a minimum of 5 years in a Senior Director role</li> <li>8-10 years of experience in developing and overseeing a portfolio of innovative and impactful programs, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and objectives</li> <li>Proven track record in successfully navigating programs from ideation through fundraising, implementation, and scaling</li> <li>Engineering degree or related science and technology background</li> <li>Adept at evaluating emerging technologies and navigating the challenges associated with bringing innovative solutions to market</li> <li>Ability to assess program effectiveness, make data-driven decisions, and drive continuous improvement of program outcomes</li> <li>Demonstrated experience in securing program funding through diverse channels, including state and federal government and/or philanthropy</li> <li>Expertise in developing and managing program budgets, optimizing resource allocation, and ensuring financial sustainability</li> <li>Exceptional leadership and management skills, providing effective guidance and supervision to program leads while fostering a collaborative and high-performing team.</li> <li>Strong writing and public speaking skills</li> <li>Willingness and excitement to collaborate with external partners and travel regularly for speaking engagements as a New Energy Nexus ambassador worldwide</li> </ul><p><strong>Benefits</strong></p><p></p><h3>BENEFITS AND COMPENSATION</h3><p>Competitive compensation of <strong>$150 - $175K</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> <li>Submit your resume, cover letter  and responses to our application questions. </li> <li>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><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>

Head of Programs

<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 is seeking a candidate who will bring a solid background in Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and financial forecasting. The Director of Program Finance and Compliance will be responsible for all daily general accounting-related duties, including a broad range of transactional, reconciliation, and other accounting activities. 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 us plan and strategize for growth in order to scale New Energy Nexus California.</p><p>The Director of Program Finance and Compliance will support New Energy Nexus California as we prepare for continued growth and expansion. The person in this role should bring a high level of grit and curiosity and will work in collaboration with Finance &amp; Operations (FiOps) and CA leadership teams, to ensure that New Energy Nexus California is operating efficiently, effectively and within budget. You will be tasked with providing strategic direction on budgeting, forecasting and financial planning. If you have a passion for clean energy, entrepreneurship, enjoy process design, operational excellence and enabling organizations and people to succeed, this position may be for you! </p><p></p><h3>A TYPICAL DAY</h3><p>The Director of Program Finance and Compliance at New Energy Nexus California plays a critical role in ensuring financial sustainability, transparency, and adherence to legal and ethical standards, making their daily responsibilities essential to the organization's success. A typical day for the Director of Program Finance and Compliance involves managing the organization's financial resources efficiently. They will often handle a wide range of responsibilities, including maintaining financial records, processing transactions, preparing budgets, and ensuring compliance with relevant regulations. Additionally, they will be responsible for grant management, people management, and donor relations. The Director of Program Finance and Compliance will work closely with a small team and even handle many of these tasks independently, requiring adaptability and a hands-on approach to financial management and compliance.</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 the 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><p></p><h3>CORE RESPONSIBILITIES</h3><p>Budgeting, Invoicing &amp; Reporting</p><ul> <li>Prepare and monitor budgets and financial forecasts, analyze deficiencies, and report variances to CA leadership.</li> <li>Ability to build and maintain resource plans (budgets) for the California-based team that is delivering on multiple projects with shared resource allocations.</li> <li>Working knowledge of restricted grant budget management and reporting. </li> <li>Build integrated budgeting and reporting workflows that satisfy multiple reporting objectives (e.g. Budgets to Actual for the team as a whole, for a program etc.) from a given data architecture and source data set.</li> <li>Provide financial analysis and modeling to support strategic and operational decision-making, this includes analyzing and reporting on operational metrics to identify trends and opportunities for improvement.</li> <li>Final review and approval of invoicing packages to ensure quality and compliance in line with funder terms and conditions</li> <li>Project budgeting expert on the team, providing guidance, training, tools, and templates to the CA team for Accounting-related processes including, but not limited to, independent contractor budgetary development and contract execution.</li> </ul><p></p><p>Contracts Compliance &amp; Management</p><ul> <li>Develop, implement, and monitor controls and procedures to manage operational expenses.</li> <li>Prepare and publish timely monthly financial statements to CA leadership and executive team as required.</li> <li>Ability to analyze complex fact patterns and distill them into simple and understandable concepts for internal and external stakeholder groups</li> <li>Maintain capitalized tracking ledger.</li> <li>Ability to analyze and solve complex problems with multi-dimensional constraints that require both creativity and attention to detail.</li> <li>Ability and patience to read and comprehend complex contracts and regulations and design smart (resource-efficient/effective) workflows and controls that are additional to or separate from standard organizational processes.</li> <li>Provide guidance to the grants management team for the development of contracts and agreements for sub-awardees, contractors, and vendors</li> <li>Working knowledge of Federal Cost Principles (2 CFR 200) and Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR).</li> <li>Work with external auditors and provide needed documentation and support for the annual audit.</li> <li>Responsible for compliance with all contracted terms and embedded regulations, and preparation of reports, audit trail documentation and end-to-end management of program audits (by funders, government agencies etc).</li> <li>Act as a liaison between New Energy Nexus’ FiOps team and CA staff.</li> <li>Additional financial planning and accounting responsibilities as needed.</li> </ul><p></p><p>Team Leadership</p><ul> <li>Oversee, lead, and manage a grants management and compliance team, fostering a collaborative and motivated team environment.</li> <li>In collaboration with NEX Platform and CA Programs Team develop, update, and streamline grants management processes and workflows.</li> <li>Provide mentorship, guidance, and professional development opportunities to team members.</li> <li>Foster a culture of accountability, transparency, and ethical financial practices.</li> <li>Conduct 1:1 and team check-ins and oversee performance reviews for the team</li> </ul><p><strong>Requirements</strong></p><p><strong>REQUIRED SKILLS FOR THE ROLE</strong></p><ul> <li>Strong dedication to New Energy Nexus's mission, showcasing a profound understanding and alignment with organizational goals</li> <li>7-10+ years of experience in financial accounting or controller management positions</li> <li>5+ years leading a grants management team responsible for government funding, complex agreement packages, and managing compliance with flow down terms with clean audits</li> <li>Experience overseeing sub-awardee contracting and invoicing</li> <li>Familiarity with cost allocation methodologies</li> <li>Knowledge of GAAP and accounting concepts</li> <li>Have a positive attitude, strong communication skills, and an affinity for numbers.</li> <li>High level of attention to detail, with the ability to analyze and solve problems quickly and creatively with attention to detail</li> <li>Remain flexible in a constantly changing environment and work independently with strong planning and prioritization skills, able to succeed in a regularly expanding environment</li> <li>Ability to navigate ambiguity and find solutions for concurrent conflicting challenges</li> <li>Significant track record of progressively responsible experience in budgeting and forecasting</li> <li>Proven professional experience as an upper-level Accountant, experience working at a medium to large-sized not-for-profit organization a plus</li> <li>Working knowledge of GAAP accounting principles and procedures</li> <li>Prior experience with Single Audits and/or other program audits is a plus</li> <li>Expert in Excel and with prior experience creating financial statements</li> <li>Excellent written and verbal skills to create internal and external communication pieces ranging from detailed audit trails to executive summaries</li> <li>Ability to think through data structures and data integrations of mainstream SaaS solutions with manual interfaces</li> <li>Experience in developing and implementing policies and procedures</li> <li>Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business Administration</li> </ul><p></p><p><strong>WE HOPE YOU BRING ONE OR MORE OF THESE BONUS SKILLS</strong></p><ul> <li>Advanced degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related discipline</li> <li>Experience working in IT and cybersecurity</li> <li>Drafting budgets for proposal development</li> <li>Experience in reporting on match share requirements on grants</li> <li>Experience in a global business environment</li> </ul><p><strong>Benefits</strong></p><p></p><h3>BENEFITS AND COMPENSATION</h3><p>Competitive compensation of <strong>$130 - $155K</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> <li>Submit your resume, cover letter  and responses to our application questions. </li> <li>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><p></p><p><em>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.</em></p>

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