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Staff Embedded Software Engineer

Peak Energy · Burlingame, California · On-site

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About Peak Energy

Peak Energy designs and deploys grid-scale sodium-ion energy storage systems for reliable, lower-cost energy infrastructure. Backed by Eclipse Ventures.

About the role

As Peak grows from pilot deployments to gigawatt-scale production, our software infrastructure must scale alongside our products. You'll help establish the foundation that enables our engineering teams to develop, test, and deploy software efficiently and reliably. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Extensive experience writing firmware and software code in C++ or at least one similar systems programming language
  • Have shipped at least one commercial or industrial hardware product
  • A degree in science, engineering, or a related field
  • 8+ years of professional engineering experience
  • Experience writing firmware for real-time embedded systems
  • Experience designing complex software that coordinates several disparate functions
More about this role

Staff Embedded Software Engineer, ESS

Position Type: Full-time

About the Company

Peak Energy is the first American venture to advance globally proven sodium-ion battery systems as the storage standard for the new era of renewable energy on a resilient grid.

Sodium-ion is cheap, readily available, and safe — making it the leading contender in a rapidly evolving market.

Our leadership team is powered by decades of expertise in scaling gigawatt-level innovation at world-class companies such as Tesla, Northvolt, Apple, Powin, Enovix, Zipline, Solid Power, SunPower, and Fluence. We are backed by strategic investment and product partners including TDK Ventures, Eclipse Ventures, and GM Ventures.

We recently announced America's first sodium-ion grid storage factory in Sacramento with production starting Q1 2027, and over $1B in signed customer commitments including Jupiter Power and Energy Vault.

About the Role

Peak Energy is looking for a DevOps Engineer to build and scale the cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and automation systems supporting our grid-scale battery storage technology.

As Peak grows from pilot deployments to gigawatt-scale production, our software...

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