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Burlingame, California, United States
Onsite
Peak Energy
Job Title: Manufacturing Software Engineer
Location: Burlingame, CA or Sacramento, CA
Department: Manufacturing Engineering
Reports To: Software Engineering Manager
Position Type: Full-time
About Peak Energy
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, and Fluence. We are backed by strategic investment and product partners such as TDK Ventures and Eclipse Ventures.
We are a team of engineers, operators, entrepreneurs, and partners driven by a shared ambition to set the new performance standard for renewable energy and grid resilience.
About the Role - Manufacturing Software Engineer
We're hiring a mid-level software engineer to build the distributed systems that connect our production equipment to MES and our enterprise stack. You'll work on the SCADA/equipment-integration layer — acquiring data over OPC-UA and other industrial protocols, normalizing it, and delivering it reliably into MES under real-world floor conditions — as well as the microservices that integrate our ERP and PLM systems.
This is a hands-on engineering role on a small team. You'll design and implement services, care about concurrency and performance, and stand behind your code on a live production floor. You'll work closely with senior engineers who own the broader architecture, contributing strong distributed-systems engineering to it.
What You'll Do (Responsibilities)
Build Go services in a microservice architecture that acquire equipment data (OPC-UA and other industrial protocols), normalize it, and publish it to MES and downstream consumers
Engineer for high concurrency and high throughput — many stations and signals streaming simultaneously, with low-latency, backpressure-aware processing
Build and maintain the ERP/PLM integration microservices that sync work orders, BOMs, routings, part/revision data, and as-built/genealogy records between the floor and enterprise systems
Build event-driven data pipelines feeding a cloud data lake for production and quality analytics
Add observability — metrics, tracing, alerting — so service health and equipment connectivity are visible, not silent
Contribute to internal tooling and dashboards that surface production and quality data
What You'll Bring (Qualifications)
2–3 years of professional software engineering experience building production backend / systems software
Strong distributed systems fundamentals — concurrency, consistency models, idempotency, message delivery semantics, fault tolerance
Experience designing and operating microservice architectures in production
Proficiency in Go (or a strong systems-language background with demonstrated ability to ship in Go)
Comfortable engineering for high concurrency and high performance — profiling, contention, throughput/latency trade-offs
Hands-on manufacturing / shop floor software experience — you've worked on or adjacent to production lines
ERP and/or PLM background — you've integrated with systems like SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, Dynamics, Teamcenter, Windchill, Arena, etc.
Working knowledge of SCADA / MES concepts and industrial communication, especially OPC-UA (Modbus, MQTT, PLC interfaces a plus)
Self-directed, communicative, and effective in a fast-moving startup environment
Preferred Qualifications
Direct experience with OPC-UA client/server implementations and industrial data acquisition at scale
Experience with event streaming infrastructure (Kafka, Kinesis, NATS, etc.) and time-series data
Experience building or operating a data lake / lakehouse and modern ELT pipelines
Familiarity with traceability/genealogy systems in a quality-driven manufacturing context
AWS / Kubernetes (EKS) operational experience
Background in batteries, energy storage, or other hardware-adjacent manufacturing
Peak Energy is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We strongly encourage women, people of color, and individuals from underrepresented groups to apply. We value skills, potential, and perspective over specific credentials. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t look perfect on paper, we still want to hear from you.
Our Core Values
Compensation & Benefits
The salary range for this role is $130,000-$180,000, with actual pay varying based on work location, experience, and skills. Our competitive benefits package includes:
Join us to thrive in a supportive environment while making a meaningful impact in the energy sector!
At Peak Energy Technologies Inc., we believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace makes us a more capable, innovative, and competitive company. We welcome people who represent diversity in their backgrounds, ethnicities, cultures, and experiences. Peak Energy Technologies Inc. is an equal opportunity employer, aiming to reach our company’s full potential by cultivating an inclusive workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, citizenship, marital or family status, disability, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other legally protected status.
