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Software Engineer Intern

Electric Era Technologies

Electric Era Technologies

Software Engineering
Seattle, WA, USA
Posted on Thursday, October 3, 2024

Electric Era was founded to revolutionize the world's electric vehicle charging infrastructure. We have developed PowerNode, a high performance and autonomous EV fast charging station that can be deployed anywhere on the grid to provide the necessary charging infrastructure needed for the affordable and timely electrification of transportation. Electric Era is building the future of car refill for the next generation of drivers. Come build the future of car refill with our dynamic, energetic and passionate team in our beautiful offices overlooking the Seattle skyline.

Software Engineering Intern:

Electric Era is designing, building, and testing high power battery-enabled charging stations to provide the necessary infrastructure needed for the affordable and timely electrification of transportation. Our high-power charging stations and the software platform built around them will become critical components of the electrical grid and complement the deployment of fast-charging infrastructure with low operational and capital costs across the U.S.

Electric Era’s software team redefines “full-stack” - we write everything from low-level firmware to cloud-hosted backend software to factory test infrastructure to artificial intelligence and simulation tooling. We believe in first-principles engineering with rapid iteration towards success.

As an intern, you will have the opportunity to join us in this mission, take ownership of a variety of components of the Electric Era software stack, and execute from ideation to in-field operation. Your contributions will be critical to the long-term success of the company.

Responsibilities:

  1. You will work with your mentor on end-to-end development of a sub-component of the PowerNode software stack
  2. Source requirements cross-functionally to produce optimal first principles designs
  3. Present and defend design decisions
  4. Develop and maintain software in production
  5. You will collaborate with our software and hardware partners to ensure optimal system-level design for mission-critical problems for the company
  6. You will be responsible for operational success of the software you write, in real world environments
  7. You will have a direct impact on our company’s success in making EV fast charging ubiquitous and affordable

Qualifications & Preferred Skills:

  1. Rising Sophomore or above with 3.5+ GPA in Computer Science or related course of study
  2. Strong personal project portfolio demonstrating academic and practical capabilities (team experience such as FSAE is highly valued)
  3. Development experience in one or more of these languages: C, C++, Rust, Go, or TypeScript
  4. Previous internship, research, or other business experience
  5. Strong verbal and written communication skills

Compensation

$30-42.5/hr depending on experience