Reliability Test Engineer

The Linear Generator is a sophisticated, automated, and integrated system spanning a wide range of engineering disciplines including thermodynamics, mechanical, electrical, software, and controls. This position will lead the operation and execution of experiments on our Linear Generators as part of Mainspring’s test engineering team. This includes hands-on work and remote operation of our Linear Generator qualification units, debugging, and data analysis aimed at qualifying new changes and reliability of our product. This position will require travel up to 30% time to our testing site in Houston, Texas.

We are looking for an open-minded, curious, and highly motivated Test Engineer to join our dynamic test engineering team. You will lead critical sub-system and system-level validation and reliability tests on new releases of our product. This role will require strong collaboration across the entire engineering and business organization., * Operate our Linear Generator units

• Perform hands-on troubleshooting working in close collaboration with other engineering disciplines such as Mechanical, Electrical and Software & Controls.
• Work directly with technicians to coordinate repairs and retrofits
• Review test plans and provide expert guidance on test setup and execution plan
• Setup and maintain instrumentation to collect critical data
• Manage test priorities on a daily basis to meet higher level deadlines with a focus on throughput and maintaining high uptime
• Analyze data, generate reports and communicate results with engineering teams to facilitate learnings and design releases
• Develop & improve processes and infrastructure to support testing on our next generation products
• Interface with external stakeholders at our testing site in Houston, Texas to coordinate service and resolve other issues impacting testing at the site

• Master’s degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, physics, or equivalent with 3+ years of applicable experience
• Proven experience of conducting experimental hardware projects in industrial environment in the context of product qualification or reliability testing
• Strong organizational and communication skills
• Demonstrated proficiency in complex project management in context of product development
• Proficiency in programming with Python/ MatLab/ C++ (at least one)
• Advanced data analysis
• Proficiency with root cause analysis methods
• Proficiency with safety protocols / LOTO procedures for high voltage equipment (and other safety critical systems)
• Proficiency with programming DAQ devices / working with a wide variety of instrumentation/sensors
• Experience communicating with customers/external stakeholders is a plus

Mainspring Energy manufactures and delivers fuel-flexible, low-emissions local power solutions that rapidly add new capacity and deliver reliable, affordable, and sustainable electric power. The company began commercial shipments of its Mainspring Linear Generators in 2020 and today has hundreds of megawatts in advanced development and field operations for leading Fortune 500 companies, data centers, and utilities. Mainspring also partners with global energy leaders including AEP, NextEra Energy Resources, Schneider Electric, and more.

The core values that ground our work, guide our decisions, and connect us together:

• Pragmatic Optimism
• Excellence without Ego
• Proactive Collaboration