Location: Remote or San Francisco
In order to keep climate change to 1.5&deg;C, we&rsquo;ll need 30% of global GDP (all of the energy generation and transportation) to run on batteries by 2035.
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.
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.
Role
Zitara's battery management software spans compute and operations environments that include battery hardware labs, data and machine learning platforms, high availability web services, and real time embedded software. We're looking for a DevOps engineer to design and manage the infrastructure that drives this broad, multidisciplinary engineering program. If you join us, you'll be responsible for identifying key technologies that enable Zitara's internal R&amp;D and external products, developing interfaces and integrations with our engineering teams, and ensuring high reliability of our services.
The ideal candidate will have experience with a broad range of engineering problems, and using software and IT services to support engineering solutions in creative ways, while managing systems to maintain high reliability even in challenging situations.
Responsibilities
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Develop and maintain our AWS cloud infrastructure</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Implement and maintain automation pipelines for continuous integration and continuous deployment.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Collaborate with development and operations teams to ensure that applications are built and deployed efficiently.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Monitor and troubleshoot production systems to ensure high availability and performance.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Implement and maintain security measures to protect our systems and data.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Develop and maintain documentation for our infrastructure and automation processes.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Participate in on-call rotations to support production systems.&nbsp;</li>
</ul>
Qualifications
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">5+ years of DevOps experience</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Expertise in AWS cloud infrastructure technologies such as RDS, EC2, and VPC.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Experience managing complex AWS environments with Terraform.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Strong scripting skills in languages such as Python or Bash.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Nagios, Prometheus, or DataDog.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Knowledge of cloud security best practices</li>
</ul>
Preferred Qualifications
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Familiarity with data platforms and machine learning systems and technologies</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Familiarity with C build tools and toolchains, especially bazel</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Experience developing production applications or infrastructure software in Python</li>
</ul>
What We Offer
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Competitive salary and equity</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Health, Dental, and Vision care for you and your family</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">401K savings plan</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Unlimited vacation policy</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">An altruistic company mission</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Excellent colleagues that are interested in your happiness and growth</li>
</ul>

Senior DevOps Engineer

Location: San Francisco or Remote
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.
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.
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.
Role
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. You will lead the evolution of our data platform to improve our battery algorithms, analytics, web app features, and more.
Responsibilities
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Design, build, and maintain the next generation of our data platform, including data ingestion, processing, storage, and retrieval</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Choose best-in-class tools for data management and make build-vs-buy decisions</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement scalable data solutions that manage complex, highly structured data sets with domain specific requirements.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Optimize data performance and reliability, including monitoring and troubleshooting of data systems</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Provide mentorship and technical guidance to more junior engineers on the team</li>
</ul>
Qualifications
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">7+ years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on data platform development</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Experience deploying robust production software written in Python</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Strong understanding of data modeling, database design, and SQL</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Experience implementing and managing data pipelines with orchestration tools such as Dagster, Prefect, or Airflow, and large-scale data processing frameworks such as Spark, dbt, and Kafka</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Familiarity with cloud-based data platforms and technologies such as AWS, Azure, or GCP</li>
</ul>
Preferred Additional Qualifications
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">4+ years of Python experience</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Experience with a systems programming language such as C++ or Rust</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Familiarity with machine learning platform components such as feature stores, model lifecycle management, and data version control</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Experience with dense time-series data sets or scientific data sets</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes</li>
</ul>
What We Offer
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Competitive salary and equity</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Health, Dental, and Vision care for you and your family</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">401K savings plan</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Unlimited vacation policy</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">An altruistic company mission</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Excellent colleagues that are interested in your happiness and growth</li>
</ul>

Staff Software Engineer | Data Platform

<h2>The Role</h2>
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.
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.
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.
<h2>Responsibilities</h2>
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. 
<ul>
<li>Drive the successful integration of Zitara software in customer battery systems:</li>
<ul>
<li>Design battery test and instrumentation strategies.</li>
<li>Perform analyses on battery data collected in both the lab and field.</li>
<li>Create battery system simulations using Zitara design tools.</li>
<li>Integrate Zitara software into new compute platforms embedded within customer battery systems.</li>
<li>Help customers optimize battery design choices.</li>
</ul>
<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>Write externally-facing technical documentation, and provide direct technical support to customers when they encounter difficulty.</li>
<li>Support Zitara non-battery-expert engineering staff in making technical product development and operational decisions requiring battery expertise.</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>Author technical materials for public consumption, such as white papers and blog entries, that demonstrate Zitara’s capabilities and technical leadership.</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>Technical experience with lithium ion battery systems, such as:</li>
<ul>
<li>Battery hardware engineering.</li>
<li>Battery software engineering.</li>
<li>Battery test engineering.</li>
<li>Battery algorithms design.</li>
</ul>
<li>Project management skills.</li>
<li>Clear and effective communication abilities.</li>
<li>
Willingness to travel to meet customers in-person. 
</li>
</ul>
<h2>Preferred Additional Qualifications</h2>
<ul>
<li>Comfortable programming in Python and/or C.</li>
<li>
Practical experience in customer-facing roles. 
</li>
</ul>
<h2>What We Offer</h2>
<ul>
<li>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).</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<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>

Battery Systems Engineer

<h1>The Role</h1>
We are looking for a self-starting, highly motivated data scientist or researcher who is not afraid of getting into the details of battery modeling problems. This person will help us refine and improve algorithms for internal state estimation of batteries and predictive algorithms for performance. Their skills should include method and algorithm development, with a strong emphasis on drawing conclusions from experimental data and being able to communicate those conclusions to a technical, non-expert audience. In particular, this person should have a strong grasp of data analysis methods, model optimization approaches and be able to independently evaluate and determine the appropriate tools for measuring error, variance, sensitivity, etc.
Additionally, this person will be partially responsible for designing data curation and analysis as part of the modeling and training workflow. Experience with visualization and data pipelines is a plus.

Senior Data Scientist

<h2>The Company</h2>
In order to keep climate change to 1.5°C, we’ll need 30% of global GDP (all of the energy generation and transportation) to run on batteries by 2035.
Zitara Technologies (YCombinator S20) builds predictive battery management software for transportation and energy customers with large deployments. Their customers operate &gt;$100M deployments of batteries in satellites, EVs, and renewable energy storage installations.
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 Toyota, Exponent, Proterra, Tesla, Gogoro, Google, and Facebook, and a passion for technologies that can have an immediate impact on the climate crisis.
<h2>The Role</h2>
Zitara's operation team’s software spans several domains:
<ul>
<li>large-scale data infrastructure</li>
<li>automation of our in-house battery lab</li>
<li>scaling battery lab operations profitably to keep up with ever growing customer demands.</li>
</ul>
Our operational tools and processes impact all our product lines and are integral to Zitara’s success and bottom line.
We're looking for a data engineer who is committed to delivering robust, scalable tools for our operations team. You'll contribute to Zitara's success by creating custom solutions to address operational needs, from test automation and monitoring, to data collection, validation and visualization. To succeed, you'll collaborate with both operations and engineering team members to build tools that support existing and future processes to create a smooth pipeline from data to machine learning to product.
In this role, you'll be expected to jump into at least one or two specific well-defined projects immediately, and help define future projects to streamline our operations as we grow.
<h2>Responsibilities</h2>
<ul>
<li>Understand complex problems across multiple disciplines and apply software engineering methodology to attack them</li>
<li>Make data engineering choices in the face of evolving product requirements</li>
<li>Work with project management team members to scope and schedule work</li>
<li>Work with team members to ensure features meet operational needs</li>
<li>Write robust, tested code to solve challenges at every scale</li>
<li>Contribute to design, code, and internal documentation</li>
</ul>
<h2>Minimum Qualification</h2>
<ul>
<li>Bachelors' in technical subject or equivalent proficiency</li>
<li>2+ years experience in industry data engineering</li>
<li>1+ year experience in one or more of the following specialties:
<ul>
<li>Proficiency in SQL and relational databases</li>
<li>Automating data collection, storage, and validation</li>
<li>Organizing and managing large, complex data sets</li>
<li>AWS or other cloud services</li>
<li>Networking test equipment</li>
<li>Creating data and operations dashboards</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Proficiency in Python</li>
<li>Experience shipping robust internal tools</li>
<li>Basic software development workflow processes with git</li>
<li>Experience with project management and agile development</li>
<li>Clear and effective written and interpersonal communication skills</li>
<li>Creative problem solving with limited resources and engineering constraints</li>
</ul>
<h2>Preferred Additional Qualifications</h2>
<ul>
<li>Experience in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, chemistry, or physics</li>
<li>Experience writing software tools to automate physical processes</li>
</ul>
<h2>What We Offer</h2>
<ul>
<li>Full-time position: 3 days in office in San Francisco, CA as possible; 2 optionally remote days per week</li>
<li>Competitive pay</li>
<li>Health, Dental, and Vision care for you and your family</li>
<li>401K savings plan</li>
<li>“Unlimited PTO” vacation policy</li>
<li>Excellent colleagues that are interested in your happiness and growth</li>
</ul>
<h2>Why you should join Zitara Technologies, Inc.</h2>
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.
Zitara Technologies (YCombinator S20) builds predictive battery management software for transportation and energy customers with large deployments. Their customers operate &gt;$100M deployments of batteries in satellites, EVs, and renewable energy storage installations.

Data Engineer

<h1>The Company</h1>
In order to keep climate change to 1.5&deg;C, we&rsquo;ll need 30% of global GDP to run on batteries by 2035. We&rsquo;ll need to electrify entire core infrastructures, decarbonizing transportation and energy generation writ large.
Zitara Technologies (YCombinator S20) builds battery design and battery 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.
&nbsp;
<h1>The Role</h1>
We are looking for experienced, generalist battery systems engineers to drive the successful integration of Zitara&rsquo;s battery design and management software into customer applications.
At Zitara, battery systems engineers are our &ldquo;power users&rdquo;. 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.
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.
<h1>Responsibilities</h1>
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.
 - Drive the successful integration of Zitara software in customer battery systems:
<ul>
<li style="list-style-type: none;">
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2">Design battery test and instrumentation strategies.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2">Perform analyses on battery data collected in both the lab and field.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2">Create battery system simulations using Zitara design tools.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2">Integrate Zitara software into new compute platforms embedded within customer battery systems.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2">Help customers optimize battery design choices.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Guide and mentor customers as they adopt Zitara products, helping them maximize the value of Zitara software when integrated in their applications.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Write externally-facing technical documentation, and provide direct technical support to customers when they encounter difficulty.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Support Zitara non-battery-expert engineering staff in making technical product development and operational decisions requiring battery expertise.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">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 style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Author technical materials for public consumption, such as white papers and blog entries, that demonstrate Zitara&rsquo;s capabilities and technical leadership.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Directly participate in Zitara&rsquo;s product planning and development process. </li>
</ul>
<h1>Minimum Qualifications</h1>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Bachelors' in technical subject or equivalent proficiency.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Technical experience with lithium ion battery systems, such as:</li>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2">Battery hardware engineering.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2">Battery software engineering.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2">Battery test engineering.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2">Battery algorithms design.</li>
</ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Project management skills.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Clear and effective communication abilities.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Willingness to travel to meet customers in-person. </li>
</ul>
<h1>Preferred Additional Qualifications</h1>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Comfortable programming in Python and/or C.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Practical experience in customer-facing roles. </li>
</ul>
<h1>What We Offer</h1>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">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).</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Competitive pay.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Health, Dental, and Vision care for you and your family.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">A 401k savings plan.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">&ldquo;Unlimited PTO&rdquo; vacation policy.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Excellent colleagues that are interested in your happiness and growth.</li>
</ul>

Battery Systems Engineer 

The Company
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.
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.
The Role
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.
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.
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.
Responsibilities
<ul>
<li>Generate and develop new customer leads by building professional networks within key industries and contributing to marketing initiatives.</li>
<li>Determine customer qualifications and qualify incoming leads.</li>
<li>Pitch Zitara products and services to prospective customers, maintain deal momentum, and manage deals to completion.</li>
<li>Thoroughly understand the needs of prospective customers, and author compelling proposals for business engagements that address those needs, collaborating with internal technical teams.</li>
<li>Work with Zitara legal resources to negotiate, revise, and close contracts.</li>
<li>Directly report to business leadership on the status and progress of deals, and collaborate on company-level go-to-market strategies.</li>
<li>Collaborate with account management, applications engineering, and operations teams to smoothly hand-off newly won deals for product delivery.</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>
Directly participate in Zitara’s product planning process. 
</li>
</ul>
Minimum Qualifications 
<ul>
<li>Bachelors' degree or equivalent proficiency.</li>
<li>Minimum three years of technical sales experience.</li>
<li>Clear and effective communication abilities.</li>
<li>High attention to detail.</li>
<li>
Willingness to travel to attend industry events and meet prospective customers. 
</li>
</ul>
Preferred Additional Qualifications
<ul>
<li>Familiarity with lithium-ion batteries.</li>
<li>
Familiarity with industries deploying energy storage assets, such as:
<ul>
<li>Electric vehicles</li>
<li>Renewable energy / utilities / stationary energy storage</li>
<li>Construction / industrial equipment / power tools</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
What We Offer 
<ul>
<li>A full-time position, working from our office in San Francisco 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>

Sales Engineer

In order to keep climate change to 1.5°C, we’ll need 30% of global GDP (all of the energy generation and transportation) to run on batteries by 2035.
Zitara Technologies (YCombinator S20) builds predictive battery management software for transportation and energy customers with large deployments. Their customers operate &gt;$100M deployments of batteries in satellites, EVs, and renewable energy storage installations.
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 Toyota, Exponent, Proterra, Tesla, Gogoro, Google, and Facebook. 
We're looking for a Battery Test Engineer to work closely with our R&amp;D, engineering, and operations team members to drive and execute the entire process of battery testing. This includes physical setup, electrical testing, documentation, and ensuring that the test data flows through all data validation and processing steps. The ideal candidate will be 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.
Responsibilities
<ul>
<li>Execute test setup, instrumentation, data collection, and documentation</li>
<li>Manage, maintain, and research upgrades to our lab equipment (battery cyclers, thermal chambers, and electronics) and supplies/consumables</li>
<li>Develop and enforce lab safety and workflow practices</li>
<li>Lead the continuous organization, tidiness, and safety compliance of lab spaces</li>
<li>Design, fabricate, assemble, and document test fixtures</li>
<li>Validate the end result of the lab work, working with other team members to determine pass/fail criteria</li>
<li>Communicate technical matters, schedule considerations, deliverables, and needs</li>
<li>Manage and streamline customer onboarding from the perspective of laboratory testing</li>
</ul>
Minimum Qualifications
<ul>
<li>BS in EE, ME, or related field</li>
<li>2-5 years experience in electrical, data, or mechanical engineering roles</li>
<li>Capable of performing required battery lab tasks</li>
<li>Clear and effective written and interpersonal communication skills</li>
<li>Working knowledge of basic software, spreadsheets, etc.</li>
<li>Experience with basic fabrication tools (soldering, hand tools, small power tools, etc.)</li>
<li>Experience with basic electrical test tools (power supplies, multimeters, battery testers, etc.)</li>
<li>High attention to detail and self-motivation</li>
</ul>
Preferred Additional Qualifications
<ul>
<li>Electrical and/or Mechanical CAD proficiency</li>
<li>Electrical safety and high voltage lab experience</li>
<li>Running, crimping, and organizing wires and wiring harnesses</li>
<li>Basic knowledge of python, writing scripts, networking, etc.</li>
</ul>
What We Offer
<ul>
<li>Full-time position, standard hours subject to time zones</li>
<li>Competitive compensation, equity incentive, and benefits package</li>
<li>Casual work culture</li>
<li>Excellent colleagues that are interested in your happiness and growth</li>
</ul>

Battery Test Engineer

We're looking for a software engineer experienced with building robust numerical codes in firmware and resource-constrained environments.
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 an embedded software engineer who can work in a broad, multidisciplinary environment.
In this role, you will work closely with our controls engineers to adapt algorithms for managing the state and health of battery systems in resource constrained environments. You will collaborate with our team of embedded software engineers to ensure these algorithms can recover from upsets, detect anomalies, and operate reliably in the field.
<h1>Responsibilities</h1>
<ul>
<li>Work with our battery scientists and controls engineers to adapt high-level estimation and control algorithms to resource constrained embedded environments.</li>
<li>Write robust, well-tested control logic and numerical codes in C.</li>
<li>Implement quality processes using MIL, SIL, and HIL tooling. </li>
<li>Help analyze failure modes, identify detection and mitigation strategies, and write software to implement these strategies.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Minimum Qualifications</h2>
<ul>
<li>BS  in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or other related engineering discipline.</li>
<li>Experience with real-time  or software real-time control systems.</li>
<li>3-5 years experience writing production quality C / C++ in low resource or high-performance environements.</li>
<li>Basic software development workflow processes with git.</li>
<li>Experience with project management and agile development.</li>
<li>Clear and effective written and interpersonal communication skills.</li>
<li>Creative problem solving with limited resources and engineering constraints.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Preferred Additional Qualifications </h2>
<ul>
<li>Prior experience writing firmware for battery management systems.</li>
<li>Experience with safety critical systems and certification (e.g. automotive, medical devices, avionics, etc.).</li>
<li>Experience with designing fault detection and fault tolerant systems.</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>“Unlimited PTO” vacation policy.</li>
<li>Excellent colleagues that are interested in your happiness and growth.</li>
</ul>

Battery Management System Controls Engineer

We're looking for a multidisciplinary software and algorithms engineer who can draw from academic literature, practical engineering tools, and domain-specific data and models to design, analyze, and improve control algorithms in battery management.
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.
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.
<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</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>
<li>Collaborate with embedded developers to design and test resource constrained implementations of your algorithms </li>
</ul>
<h2>Minimum Qualifications</h2>
<ul>
<li>BS, MS, or Ph.D in Computer Science, Chemistry / Chemical Engineering, Physics or other related engineering discipline.</li>
<li>Experience modeling and simulating dynamical systems</li>
<li>Experience with writing efficient numerical algorithms (optimization, controls, simulation, or similar).</li>
<li>3-5 years experience writing production quality Python.</li>
<li>Basic software development workflow processes with git</li>
<li>Clear and effective written and interpersonal communication skills</li>
<li>Enthusiasm for learning more about batteries and battery management systems</li>
</ul>
<h2>Preferred Additional Qualifications </h2>
<ul>
<li>Experience with Kalman filtering</li>
<li>Experience with statistical analysis and knowledge of statistical methods</li>
<li>Experience writing production quality C / 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.</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>

Controls Algorithm Engineer 

We are looking for a field applications engineer who will ensure successful integration of Zitara’s battery design and management software in customer applications.
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.
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.
<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.</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>

Field Applications Engineer

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 an embedded systems software engineer who can work in a broad, multidisciplinary environment.
In this role, you'll be expected to work across technical areas comfortably and learn quickly from team members. You can expect Zitara to provide you opportunities to grow your technical breadth as well as mentor colleagues across functions.
<h2>Responsibilities</h2>
<ul>
<li>Understand complex problems across multiple disciplines and apply software engineering methodology to attack them</li>
<li>Architect software to robustly manage complex technical product challenges</li>
<li>Work with project management to scope and schedule work</li>
<li>Work with product management to ensure features meet customer needs</li>
<li>Write robust, tested code</li>
<li>Help develop engineering process</li>
<li>Contribute to design, code, and customer facing documentation</li>
</ul>
<h2>Minimum Qualifications</h2>
<ul>
<li>Bachelors' in CS, or EE, or similar field</li>
<li>3+ years experience in industry software development in systems level C</li>
<li>Experience shipping an embedded product to customers</li>
<li>Basic software development workflow processes with git</li>
<li>Experience with project management and agile development</li>
<li>Clear and effective written and interpersonal communication skills</li>
<li>Creative problem solving with limited resources and engineering constraints</li>
</ul>
<h2>Preferred Additional Qualifications</h2>
<ul>
<li>Experience in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, chemistry, or physics</li>
<li>Working knowledge of control systems (eg PID control or state estimation)</li>
<li>Data analysis or statistical computing with Pandas or similar tools</li>
</ul>


<h2>Why you should join Zitara Technologies, Inc.</h2>

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.
Zitara Technologies (YCombinator S20) builds predictive battery management software for transportation and energy customers with large deployments. Their customers operate &gt;$100M deployments of batteries in satellites, EVs, and renewable energy storage installations.

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