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# Vice President, Electrical Engineering

- **Company:** Mainspring Energy
- **Location:** Menlo Park, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Firmware, Hardware Design, Rapid Prototyping Process
- **Published:** October 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.thejobnetwork.com/job/333041f5-94da-44cb-addc-4d9a078553c0/vice-president-electrical-engineering

## About the Role

They must also have significant practical experience bringing power electronics to market, with a good understanding of high volume manufacturing and attaining high quality and reliability at low cost.

This person must be an excellent leader who personifies our core values and can grow the team to accomplish our goals. This position reports to the SVP of Engineering, and is expected to be onsite at least 60% of the time., * Degree electrical engineering with 16+ years of experience, including 10+ years managing multi-disciplinary engineering teams

 * Proven track record of commercializing heavy industrial power hardware, e.g. utility-scale generators, inverters, or microgrid systems, from initial topology and rapid prototyping through DFM, DFT, and high-volume utility-grade scaling
 * Proven success growing and managing technical teams
 * Experience designing complex systems that require complex engineering, risk, cost, and requirements tradeoffs to co-optimize across a wide variety of disciplines, e.g. firmware/software, thermal, mechanical, electrical, supply chain, reliability, systems, etc.
 * Thrives in a fast-paced startup environment - building the company while building the product

This position is onsite at our Menlo Park HQ. The salary will be adjusted to reflect local market conditions based on employee location as well as the experience of the employee. Along with the base salary, Mainspring offers pre-IPO RSU's + benefits.

## Description

* Lead all electrical hardware development for complex power electronics and controls boards, both inside the Linear Generator and also all of the grid integration equipment
 * Manage the development systems and processes, product deliverables and roadmap, strategy and goals
 * Manage a high-performing electrical team and work in close coordination with the controls and software teams
 * Partner with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Quality to optimize products for DFM and cost
 * Drive the compliance strategy to secure all critical regulatory certifications