Mission

SPAN develops innovative technologies that support an electrified future and give homeowners unprecedented levels of control over their home energy usage.

The SPAN Panel—our flagship product—is a “smart” replacement for the 100-year-old electrical panel found in most homes, allowing for circuit-level monitoring and control from any iOS or Android device. When combined with solar and battery storage, our panel offers the best home backup solution available on the market.

SPAN Drive—our newest accessory—is the fastest universal EV charger currently available and a monumental achievement in the residential tech space.

The Role

**Team Mission: ** The quality team is a key enabler to ensuring the design, manufacturing, and operations of SPAN products deliver an amazing customer experience. This comes through fostering a culture of proactive quality improvement by implementing methods and systems for promoting early failure detection in both the design and manufacturing process coupled with a robust RCCA process that drives improvement early in the product life cycle.

Specific Areas of Focus: Supplier hardware quality, developing and maintaining quality standards for SPAN products, supporting new product development and transfers, engaging with engineering to establish methods for ensuring product archives design and functional specifications.

Role & Team Responsibilities:

• Drive improvements to product and manufacturing quality.
• Develop and maintain key performance indicators and supporting data systems for trending and on-going analysis of product performance.
• Utilize problem solving methodologies to determine root cause of problems and implement effective and sustainable solutions.
• Perform process audits to assess compliance, capability, and supplier effectiveness.
• Develop, Manage, Audit, Improve and Correct supplier planning and execution of component manufacturing and assembly techniques and quality control processes from the advanced development phase to mass production qualification
• Provide leadership for New Product Introduction (NPI) at Suppliers
• Lead supplier improvements in scalability, cost, and quality.
• Facilitate communication and clarification of technical requirements between Suppliers and Span Purchasing, Quality, and Design teams.
• Accountable for supplier audits to ensure their ability to meet part performance, delivery, and reliability expectations.
• Collaborate with Span Design, Quality, and Manufacturing to determine the ideal performance specifications and supplier metrics.
• Accountable for leading, tracking and improving supplier manufacturing process development and launch readiness for new products and design changes.
• Guide suppliers in developing exceptionally robust processes and procedures to promote efficient and seamless production of high quality products.
• Validate supplier corrective actions involving design and/or process changes to ensure they are robust, sustainable, and implemented for similar potential concerns across manufacturing lines and/or suppliers.
• Provide input on new or alternative materials for improved design, manufacturability, or cost reduction.

**About You **

Required Qualifications

• BS or MS in engineering and 4+ years of experience in Quality engineering, Supplier Quality, Manufacturing engineering environments.
• Experience developing process quality plans, supplier quality audits, and driving corrective actions
• Experience in Quality System core tools including Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), Statistical Process Control (SPC), Measurement System Analysis (MSA), Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), and Production Part Approval Process (PPAP)
• In-depth knowledge of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) and inspection.
• High proficiency with reporting and publishing routine quality reports, and presenting to executives.
• Ability to thrive in a fast paced, dynamic environment. Excellent team building skills in dealing with suppliers, peers and other functional areas.
• Strong technical writing ability and an ability to explain complex issues in a concise and plain manner. Must be familiar with SPC and data analysis.

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience working at a startup and in new product launch environments.
• Experience in the Semiconductor, Electrical or Electronics industry is preferred
• ASQ CQE or Six Sigma like accredited certifications
• Arena PLM experience
• SolidWorks and Agile
• Confluence and Jira user experience
• JMP Statistical tool

Life at SPAN

SPAN embraces diversity and equal opportunity in a serious way. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills.

Headquartered in San Francisco’s vibrant SoMa neighborhood, we are an eclectic group of creative thinkers who value open communication, teamwork, and a ‘make it happen’ approach to addressing complex challenges.

Our CEO, Arch Rao⁠—former head of the Tesla Powerwall team⁠—fosters an energetic and collaborative environment, with a strong emphasis on maintaining work-life-balance across the organization

We’re hiring talented individuals who are driven by success and are passionate about shaping the future of renewable energy. If that sounds like you, we’d love for you to consider joining the rapidly growing team at SPAN.

The Perks:

⚡ Competitive compensation + equity grants at a well-funded, venture-backed company
⚡ Comprehensive benefits (including medical; dental, vision, life and disability insurance)
⚡ Comfortable, sunny office space located near BART and Caltrain public transit
⚡ Strong focus on teambuilding and company culture (events, meet-ups, clubs)
⚡ Flexible hours and unlimited PTO

Our Mission & Values:

At SPAN, we believe that powering your home with clean energy should be a simple and delightful experience that is at its essence human-centered and technology-forward.

Our core values include:

• Making home energy more accessible, intuitive, and convenient.
• Enabling homes and vehicles to be powered by the sun.
• Building resilient homes with reliable power.
• All-electric everything.
• A more flexible & distributed grid.

Interested in joining our team? Submit an application today and we’ll be in touch with next steps!