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Staff Reliability Engineer

SPAN · San Francisco, CA · 3 wk ago
On-siteEngineeringFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We must not repeat job title. Must not include Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate. We need to parse the posting. First part: "Our Mission SPAN is enabling electrification for all ⚡ ..." This is mission statement, not needed as a section? Could be part of About the role? Probably not. The role description starts after "The Role". So we can treat "About the role" as the description of the role (the paragraph after The Role). Then responsibilities: bullet list of duties. Requirements: maybe "About You Required Qualifications". Qualifications: maybe "Bonus Qualifications". Skills: maybe combine required qualifications? But we need to follow instruction: Use headings for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to decide what content goes where. We have: - About the role: description of role (the paragraph after "The Role"). - Responsibilities: list of duties (the bullet points after "In This Role, You Will"). - Requirements: maybe the "About You Required Qualifications" (the required qualifications list). - Qualifications: maybe the "Bonus Qualifications" list. - Skills: maybe the abilities like "Ability to speak fluently across engineering domains", "Strong written and verbal communication skills", etc. Could be part of required qualifications but we can separate. - Benefits: The "Life at SPAN" and "The Perks" sections contain benefits: competitive compensation + equity, comprehensive benefits, parental leave, office space, team building, flexible hours, etc. Also "Headquartered in San Francisco’s vibrant SoMa neighborhood..." is more about culture. We'll extract benefits. - Pay: Not explicitly stated; only "Competitive compensation + equity grants". That is compensation info but not specific numbers. The instruction says: never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. It does state "Competitive compensation + equity grants". That is compensation info, albeit not specific. Is that enough to create a Pay section? It says "Competitive compensation + equity grants at a well-funded, venture-backed company". That's a statement about compensation. Likely we can include Pay section with that statement. However we must avoid filler like "commensurate with experience". This is not filler; it's a statement. So we can include Pay. - Schedule: Not mentioned explicitly. There's "Flexible hours, one holiday per month, and flexible time off". That's schedule info. So we can include Schedule section with that. Thus we will have sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must ensure we don't create sections with filler. All have content. Now we need to format: - Use

for section headings. - Use
  • for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. - Use

    for prose. We must preserve ALL substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include all details from the posting, but we can condense into lists but must keep all info. Must not omit any substantive detail. We need to be careful: The posting includes many details; we need to capture them all. Let's extract: Mission statement: "Our Mission SPAN is enabling electrification for all ⚡ We are a mission-driven company designing, building, and deploying products that electrify the built environment, reduce carbon emissions, and slow the effects of climate change. Decarbonization is the process to reduce or remove greenhouse gas emissions, especially carbon dioxide, from entering our atmosphere. Electrification is the process of replacing fossil fuel appliances that run on gas or oil with all-electric upgrades for a cleaner way to power our lives. At SPAN, We Believe In Enabling homes and vehicles powered by clean energy Making electrification upgrades possible Building more resilient homes with reliable backup Designing a flexible and distributed electrical grid" This is mission/vision. Not required as a section but could be part of About the role? Probably not needed. The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information". Does that mean we must include mission statement somewhere? It is substantive. But we have no section for mission. Could we include it as a

    before any headings? The instruction says output only HTML fragment, no /. We can include a

    with mission statement before headings. That would preserve it. It's not a heading, just prose. That seems acceptable. Then "The Role SPAN is seeking a Staff Reliability Engineer to be the technical leader for our reliability team, improve lab organization, standardize reliability test suites, improve the visibility of reliability test reports, and mentor a small team of dedicated reliability engineers. You'll set the technical direction for reliability testing across the entire suite of SPAN products—spanning electrical, mechanical, environmental, and systems-level considerations—while managing the day-to-day work of the entire team. You'll be the closed-loop-feedback function between test results and product requirements and design decisions, translating product data into clear, actionable input for design engineering teams across all disciplines. This is a role for someone who can operate at both altitudes: hands-on enough to dig into a failure mode with an oscilloscope or X-ray machine, and strategic enough to standardize reliability test suites, prioritize conflicting test programs, and mentor junior engineers on sound reliability judgment and organizational escalation." That's the About the role prose. Then "In This Role, You Will" list: - Mentor and develop a small, agile reliability team—setting weekly, monthly, and annual priorities, creating and reviewing proposed test plans and results, and helping the team improve their independent capabilities with both technical depth and judgment. - Own Span's DFR (Design for Reliability) program: Setting reliability targets, establishing mission profiles / usage models, creating and maintaining DFMEAs, writing reliability test plans, and creating test plans across the full suite of SPAN products. - Define reliability test strategy with program management across all domains (electrical, mechanical, thermal, environmental, and systems-level) while balancing product risk, DFMEA-based mitigations, team bandwidth, and program schedules. - Analyze reliability test results with statistical tools and translate those findings into tangible impacts that executives can understand while making clear recommendations on what levers are available to change the results. - Serve as the primary link between the reliability organization, program management, and product design in order to ensure reliability test results are integrated into programmatic continuous improvement plans - Guide root cause analysis on test failures and partnering closely with the certification and design teams to drive corrective and preventative actions (CAPAs) into product with formal engineering change orders and/or recertification (when necessary). - Collaborate with electrical, mechanical, and systems teams to grow in-house testing capabilities and determine when to engage outside labs. - Manage relationships with all third-party testing facilities used for reliability test evaluations that cannot be performed in house. - Redefine how the reliability team functions as the company scales to faster product launches that iterate on existing design and test history, including the definition of new processes, tooling, and technical standards that the Reliability group can use to expedite evaluations of new product launches. - Stay hands-on where it matters—operating tests, using Linux command line and Python for logging test data, performing statistical and reliability analysis on all data collected, summarizing and publicizing the results to appropriate teams, and getting into the lab when a problem needs a second set of hands. That's responsibilities. Then "About You Required Qualifications" list: - BS or MS in Materials Science, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Statistics or a related engineering field. - 8+ years of experience in reliability engineering, with demonstrated ownership of reliability programs that evaluate products with multiple product discipline inputs (electrical, mechanical, manufacturing, sourcing and/or environmental). - Deep experience with XFMEA, reliability test planning and execution, and translating lab data into product requirements. - Strong background in statistical analysis of DOE tests and reliability test data using common reliability predictive models. - Proficiency with Python or similar scripting languages for test automation, data logging, and analysis. - Hands-on experience designing and building test rigs, using metrological instrumentation, and running reliability tests in both large and small environmental control chambers. - Ability to speak fluently across engineering domains: electromagnetism, electronics, mechanical/material physics, and how they intersect with hardware reliability and safety. - Strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience presenting technical findings to both engineers and leadership. - Able and willing to perform all the physical activities required as part of the job, including but not limited to: opening and closing large environmental test chambers, independently installing and removing large electronic equipment weighing as much as 50lbs, installing and removing large electronic equipment weight as much as 100lbs with an installation partner. That's required qualifications. Then "Bonus Qualifications" list: - Experience mentoring or organizing the work of several engineers and technicians on a project or program basis. - Experience working safely with high voltage equipment (up to 600–1000V) and AC/DC power systems. - Knowledge of national and international safety and regulatory standards (UL, NEC, IEC, ISO). - Experience creating or scaling an in-house reliability lab to expand capabilities and capacity. - Experience in connected home, energy, or IoT hardware products. - Experience in corrosion mechanics and how they relate to material plating. - Experience in IC degradation mechanics and how they relate to thermal and environmental factors. - Experience in defining product mission profiles, writing test procedures and scripts to automate mission profile testing, and interpreting test results of mission profiles in reliability metrics that can be communicated with leadership. That's bonus qualifications. Then "Life at SPAN" paragraph: - 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. - 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. - 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. Then "The Perks" list: - Competitive compensation + equity grants at a well-funded, venture-backed company - Comprehensive benefits: 100% employee premiums for base plans on medical, dental, vision with options for additional coverage. Parental leave up to twenty four (24) weeks depending on eligibility - Comfortable, sunny office space located near BART and Caltrain public transit - Strong focus on team building and company culture: Employee Resource Groups, monthly social events, SPANcakes recognition breakfast, lunch, and learns - Flexible hours, one holiday per month, and flexible time off Thus we can map: Benefits: The perks list (excluding compensation? but compensation is pay). We'll put benefits as the list items about comprehensive benefits, office space, team building, etc. Pay: Competitive compensation + equity grants. Schedule: Flexible hours, one holiday per month, flexible time off. We also have "Life at SPAN" paragraph about mission, culture, etc. Could be part of Benefits? Or we could add a separate section like "About SPAN" but not in allowed headings. We could incorporate into Benefits or maybe into About the role? But we must preserve all substantive info. We could include a

    before headings for mission and life at SPAN. That's okay. Thus final HTML:

    Our Mission SPAN is enabling electrification for all ⚡ We are a mission-driven company designing, building, and deploying products that electrify the built environment, reduce carbon emissions, and slow the effects of climate change. Decarbonization is the process to reduce or remove greenhouse gas emissions, especially carbon dioxide, from entering our atmosphere. Electrification is the process of replacing fossil fuel appliances that run on gas or oil with all-electric upgrades for a cleaner way to power our lives. At SPAN, We Believe In Enabling homes and vehicles powered

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