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Mainspring Energy manufactures fuel-flexible, low-emissions local power solutions, delivering reliable and sustainable electric power to Fortune 500 companies, data centers, and utilities. The company's proprietary Linear Generator technology couples chemical reactions and thermally-driven expansion directly to a linear motor, placing controls and power electronics at the center of the design.
As Vice President of Electrical Engineering, you will lead all electrical hardware development for complex power electronics and controls boards, both within the Linear Generator and across grid integration equipment. You will manage the electrical engineering team, development systems, product deliverables, roadmap, strategy, and goals. This role requires close coordination with controls and software teams, as well as partnership with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Quality to optimize products for design-for-manufacturability (DFM) and cost efficiency. You will drive the compliance strategy to secure critical regulatory certifications.
This position reports to the SVP of Engineering and requires on-site presence at least 60% of the time. You will thrive in a dynamic startup environment balancing many systems-level tradeoffs across power electronics, motors, inverters, PCBA designs, mixed-signal routing, low-noise analog signal conditioning, and high-EMI environments.
Mainspring values Pragmatic Optimism, Excellence without Ego, and Proactive Collaboration. The ideal candidate personifies these values and can grow the team to accomplish ambitious goals in the clean energy transition.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering with 16+ years of experience, including 10+ years managing multi-disciplinary engineering teams
- Proven track record commercializing heavy industrial power hardware (utility-scale generators, inverters, microgrid systems) from initial topology and rapid prototyping through DFM, DFT, and high-volume utility-grade scaling
- Demonstrated success growing and managing technical teams
- Experience designing complex systems requiring engineering, risk, cost, and requirements tradeoffs across firmware/software, thermal, mechanical, electrical, supply chain, reliability, and systems disciplines
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced startup environment while building both company and product
