At Bloom Energy, our vision for a world powered by clean, reliable, and affordable energy is more than just a dream—we’re making it reality.

For over two decades, we’ve been at the forefront of the global energy transition, pioneering solutions that empower critical industries to thrive in a rapidly digitizing, energy-intensive world. From revolutionizing power for AI-driven data centers to ensuring resilience for hospitals, electric grids, manufacturing facilities, and utilities, our solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) and solid oxide electrolyzer (SOEC) technologies are redefining what’s possible by delivering energy abundance for all. With more than 30,000 fuel cell modules deployed worldwide, we are the trusted partner for Fortune 100 companies and innovators alike. Our cutting-edge solutions enable unparalleled “time-to-power” capabilities, reliability, and sustainability, ensuring our customers remain ahead in a world where soaring energy demand and intensifying energy scarcity are rapidly becoming the new norm.

At Bloom, we thrive on collaboration, bold thinking, and relentless innovation. We believe that, together, we can create a brighter, more sustainable future while tackling the most pressing challenges of the 21st century.

We are looking for a Sr. Staff Engineer, Automation to join our team in one of today’s most exciting technologies.

Location: This position will be fully Onsite based in San Jose, CA

Job Description:

• Develop automated design failure modes & effects analysis (DFMEA) tool.
• Automate reliability program plan for new products.
• Develop expertise in automation and calculation of load following and cycling behavior at microgrid sites to correlate with system degradation
• Develop a fault management knowledge database with search capability to optimize fault information.
• Develop capability to track the effectiveness of product reliability to support system & field reliability decisions working together with other reliability engineers on the team.
• Identify opportunities for automation within reliability & test processes.
• Automate reliability & functional tests using scripts that automatically test functionality.
• Automate reliability modeling process in collaboration with cross functional teams.
• Collaborate cross functionally to understand how automation can improve test workflow.
• Gather requirements from hardware & software teams to develop the best automation solutions.
• Reliability test equipment monitoring & reporting automation.
• Develop automated control scripts to accelerate stress tests where applicable.
• Build SW to automate & transform the current test & field infrastructure analytical data pipeline, calculating & reporting reliability on actual systems against allocated goals.
• Install applications and databases relevant to automation. Gather requirements from cross functional teams to develop the best automation solutions.
• Design, develop and document the reliability test automation framework.
• Develop and expand existing Automation framework with open source tools.

Skills and Education:

• 6+ years of experience working on automation for systems.
• Proficiency in Python, scripting, build and test software/tools.
• BS/MS in a technical field with data science, AI and ML competence
  • Desired technical degrees in computer engineering.
• Experience with project management and independently manage multiple tasks while meeting deadlines and maintaining a strong attention to detail.
• Passion for building automation environment.
• Ability to communicate, collaborate, and coordinate with hardware/software engineers, reliability/test engineers & data scientists to maintain reliability & validation test schedules.
• Creative/Critical thinking skills.
• A desire to continually upgrade technical knowledge.
• Proven ability to design database schemas.
• Attention to detail and self-motivated.

About Bloom Energy:

Bloom Energy is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We are committed to compliance with all applicable laws providing equal employment opportunities. All qualified applicants, will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability. Bloom Energy makes reasonable accommodations, consistent with applicable laws, for the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified applicant or employee with a disability, who can perform the essential job functions, unless undue hardship would result.

Bloom Energy is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The total compensation for this position includes standard company benefits and is based on various factors including, but not limited to, relevant skills and experience.

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