Mainspring Energy

Senior Sales Engineer - Data Center Markets

LocationMenlo Park, CA
Job Typefull_time
Salary$127,000-$150,000

About This Job


Company Overview

Mainspring Energy is revolutionizing power generation with the world’s most flexible and adaptable onsite power generator, the Mainspring Linear Generator. Commercial, industrial, and utility leaders are choosing Mainspring over traditional options like engines, turbines, and fuel cells to quickly and reliably deliver local power for EV charging, commercial facilities, data centers, and grid-scale operations. The Mainspring Linear Generator is fuel flexible, ramps up and down to meet demand, and utilizes a flameless technology with near-zero NOx emissions.

Backed by top-tier investors such as Khosla Ventures, Bill Gates, American Electric Power, and Lightrock, Mainspring designs, manufactures and delivers its products to customers across the U.S. today, and we’re quickly scaling for international expansion.

Inspired by our vision of the affordable, reliable, net-zero carbon grid, Mainspring is rapidly expanding within the $816B global electricity equipment market, and we’re hiring the best talent to meet growing customer demand around the globe. We welcome a broad range of backgrounds, experiences, and talents to bring fresh perspectives and ongoing innovation to our customers.

We are looking to build relationships with people who share our values:


Pragmatic Optimism.

Building a new category of world-class power generation requires the optimism of ambition and creativity, balanced with practicality to solve problems efficiently. The challenges that arise are opportunities for growth.


Excellence without Ego.

We bring expertise and commitment to creating the best customer experience, from sales to deployment and service, just as we apply deep technical rigor to building and delivering world-class products. We strive for excellence and behave as leaders with the humility to acknowledge our challenges, both collectively and as individual contributors.


Proactive Collaboration.

The integration and cross-disciplinary nature of Mainspring’s business requires intentionally seeking out others who bring different skills, perspectives, and priorities. Our culture of inclusion and respect extends beyond our team to interactions with our partners and customers.


More information can be found at

www.mainspringenergy.com


Job Overview

The Sr. Sales Engineer- Data Center Markets, reports to the Senior Sales Engineering Manager. This role is expected to serve as the technical expert for developing cost estimates, preliminary designs, and system architecture. The Sales Engineering team is a subset of the Project Delivery team. A key enabler of Mainspring’s mission is the ability of this team to deliver solutions based on our linear generator technology that solve customer problems in the cross-section of resiliency and clean power supply.


Responsibilities

Deliver the highest value solution to customers optimizing cost-effective and robust design solutions

Assist sales team in customer calls, on an as need basis, be a key contributor for customer interactions during sales cycle
Travel to customer sites to perform site walks to determine site conditions and challenges for estimation and installation
Collaborate with internal technical teams to create proposal documentation package (site/equipment layout diagrams, sales and estimating single line diagrams, etc.), thereby supporting the sales cycle
Interface with internal cross-functional teams to understand and communicate technical requirements to customer
Present turn keys project solutions with pricing estimates assumptions and exclusions
Pivot and problem solve and identify solutions based on the customer requirements
Deliver cost estimates and supporting documentation for multiple projects (5+) at a time, to project stakeholders
Collect market data (BOM cost, commodity cost, wire and concrete market conditions ) and present to projects, sales and business development leads.
Support the business development team during contract negotiations
Be available as a consult for the project management during execution and installation
Demonstrate an understanding of the datacenter market segment and industry as a whole:
Understand datacenter operations, building power generation blocks, availability & reliability of datacenter power
Have an understanding of combustion turbines & medium speed engines


Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Electrical or Mechanical preferred)
Over 7 years of experience with sales engineering, front-end engineering and design (FEED), applications engineering, cost estimating, in electrical power systems or related industry
Experience in distributed energy, solar, batteries, fuel cells, microgrids, a plus
Ability to problem-solve, think creatively, and timely resolve personnel and project related issues
Excellent organization, documentation, and communication skills
Demonstrated experience with and full understanding of the following:
System and component level solutions
Proposal development
EPC construction practices
Bill of materials
Electrical interconnection process/gas upgrade process with utilities (plus but not critical)
Estimating
Ability to travel nationally 25% max and be the face of Mainspring for site visits and sales presentations.


Does your experience not meet all of our posted requirements? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to positions unless they meet every listed requirement. At Mainspring, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, flexible, and collaborative environment, so if you want to help us transition the world to clean and affordable electricity, and don’t meet all posted requirements for a particular role, we’d still love to hear from you. Mainspring can sometimes be flexible enough to shift responsibilities for the right person, or otherwise identify open or upcoming roles that may better fit your professional background.

In more traditional words, Mainspring Energy, Inc is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

This compensation and benefits information is based on Mainspring Energy's estimate as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future. We generally do not negotiate on salary once we have made an offer. The level of pay within the range will depend on a variety of job-related factors that may include location, relevant prior experience and/or education, or particular skills and expertise. New hires joining the company tend to be paid within the starting base pay range noted above, with opportunities to increase pay over time based on development of additional skills, competencies, and company-specific knowledge.



This position is  remote

. 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 stock options + benefits.

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