Sr. Product Engineer

BoxPower Sr. Product Engineer 

About BoxPower: 

BoxPower is on a mission to provide clean, reliable, affordable energy ANYWHERE. BoxPower’s ecosystem of software and hardware solutions optimize the performance and accelerate the deployment of microgrids. BoxPower’s hybrid solar microgrids offer immediate savings over line hardening, upgrades, and maintenance in remote areas. Our fire-safe systems provide a permanent energy supply to replace traditional utility lines.  We work with community groups and public utilities to ensure everyone has access to safe, clean, reliable energy.  

About the Role: 

Supports the product engineering department through designing, documenting, commissioning. Provide product support to other BoxPower departments: Project Engineering, Sales/Marketing, Field Services, Testing and Commissioning. 

This role reports to the Director of Engineering. This role has no direct reports. The salary range for this role is $90,000-$120,000 depending on experience and extended responsibilities.  This role can be performed remotely or at BoxPower HQ in Grass Valley, CA. Travel expectations to site or Grass Valley HQ as required. 

Responsibilities:  

• Will be responsible for owning or supporting our product. This includes development of upgrades to our products and/or future products. 

• Create, update, own documentation of specific product requirements, constraints, specification, manuals. 
• Independently determining code/standard requirements and creating solutions for our designs to meet them. 
• Specifying, identifying, and approving equipment. 
• Create, update, and own product electrical plans, controls, sequence of operations, cable/conduit schedules, etc. 
• Supporting in product standardizing electrical plans, controls, sequence of operations, cable/conduit schedules, etc 

• Ensuring subs and vendors provide a complete and operational product. Includes in-house testing of vendor products and potentially Factory Acceptance Testing. 
• Ensuring BoxPower product meets quality and functional requirements via developing testing plans and confirming testing was successful. 
• Support integration, testing, (factory/field) commissioning, and field service. 
• Support production via technical support and removing roadblocks. 
• Major player in architecture of our future products. 

• Managing and implementing product development roadmaps, which includes conduction cost and feasibility analysis based on product requirements and expectations as it applies to products. 
• Provide documentation, design updates, and solutions to support manfacturing schedule 
• Working with project engineering and production to track product development and iteration and apply changes to the product documentation 
• Providing technical support to sales and marketing teams for questions pertaining to the products 
• Becoming a subject matter expert on our business’ products 

• Support field service with commissioning, troubleshooting & servicing energy storage systems 
• Manages vendor relationships for the product development for energy systems, including outsourced engineering and OEM manufactures 
• Acting as project engineer and applications engineer for custom projects. 
• Train engineers. May manage more junior product engineers. 
• Provide technical support to sales and marketing for product questions. 

• Potentially lead R&D efforts and applying for R&D grants including conceptual designs of energy storage systems 
• Potentially lead patent application and IP protection efforts for energy storage system products 

Skills and Qualifications: 

• BS in Electrical, Software, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience (min) 

• 5+ years of experience developing energy storage, photovoltaic, generator, and microgrid products/systems 
• Must be proficient in technical drawing (AutoCAD preferred) 
• Familiarity with solar, inverter, battery, and generator technologies. Systems in 15-250kW range a plus. 
• Strong experience with controls: architecture, equipment and protocol specification, networking configurations, sequence of operations for microgrids, integration, PLCs, industrial computers, etc. 
• Strong experience working with 1000-1500VDC a plus. 

• Proven track record of successfully designing and overseeing manufacturing of products 
• Ability to clearly define product requirements and solutions 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills 
• Working knowledge of specific process technologies, procedures, products and applications 

Working at BoxPower: 

BoxPower is a dynamic start-up entering its 7th year of operations, located in beautiful Grass Valley, California. We provide a casual workplace with flexible work options. Our Headquarters office is a dog-friendly office and located in the gateway to the Sierra. We provide health, vision and dental insurance or an entirely employer sponsored Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) that provides employees with $500 per month for the employee (as well as an additional $100 monthly per dependent) to use towards qualifying medical expenses and health insurance premiums. Employees have the opportunity to contribute to a CalSavers Simple IRA retirement account. BoxPower offers all employees unlimited PTO and has events from open mic nights to company rafting trips