Automation Engineer
Span
| Company | Span |
| Category | Engineering |
| Location | Bangalore |
| Remote | On-site (inferred) |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Not stated |
| Salary | Not stated by the employer |
| Posted | 20 Mar 2026 |
| Last verified | 30 Jul 2026 |
| Source | Employer career page (ashby) |
Description
OUR MISSION
SPAN IS ENABLING ELECTRIFICATION FOR ALL ⚡
WE ARE A MISSION-DRIVEN COMPANY DESIGNING, BUILDING, AND DEPLOYING PRODUCTS THAT ELECTRIFY THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT, REDUCE CARBON EMISSIONS, AND SLOW THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE.
- Decarbonization is the process to reduce or remove greenhouse gas emissions, especially carbon dioxide, from entering our atmosphere.
- Electrification is the process of replacing fossil fuel appliances that run on gas or oil with all-electric upgrades for a cleaner way to power our lives.
AT SPAN, WE BELIEVE IN:
- Enabling homes and vehicles powered by clean energy
- Making electrification upgrades possible
- Building more resilient homes with reliable backup
- Designing a flexible and distributed electrical grid
Help Redefine Automation for the Modern Energy Grid
At SPAN, we’re not just building smart panels — we’re engineering the infrastructure for a distributed, intelligent, resilient energy future. That demands zero-compromise validation and automation engineering across firmware, cloud services, hardware, and control logic.
We’re looking for a Senior-level automation engineer who builds like a software engineer — someone who thrives on infrastructure-as-code, self-healing test systems, observable pipelines, and scalable developer tools and is ready to lead project-level initiatives and mentor junior teammates.
This is not a QA role. This is systems engineering through the lens of automation.
WHAT YOU’LL BUILD & OWN
- Architect and evolve a modern, Python-based automation platform that enables deterministic testing for embedded devices and cloud-integrated energy systems.
- Drive declarative and event-driven test orchestration using frameworks like Pydantic, Typer, and Click.
- Design real-time diagnostics, telemetry, and fault-injection strategies powered by Datadog, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.
- Integrate deeply into CI/CD systems (Buildkite, GitHub Actions, Docker Compose) and lead optimizations for speed and reliability.
- Own embedded-firmware validation pipelines leveraging HITL simulators, CAN bus, and OTA update frameworks (Mender, U-Boot scripting).
- Define self-describing test metadata schemas and automate dynamic test generation from manifest files.
- Develop code-first interfaces to signal generators, sensors, and power systems — keeping everything modular, reusable, and version-controlled.
- Expose metrics-driven insights through APIs and dashboards and champion their adoption across engineering.
- Mentor and guide junior engineers, sharing best practices in Python, test design, and systems thinking.
CORE TOOLS & TECHNOLOGIES YOU’LL USE
- Python 3.11+, pytestDocker/Compose, Artifactory, OCI registries
- GitHub Actions, Buildkite, Terraform, AWS CDK, Ansible
- Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Grafana
- AWS (S3, EC2, IoT Core, EventBridge), MQTT
- Protocol Buffers (betterproto), YAML configuration
- UV, Poetry, Black, Flake8, Ruff
- CAN bus, PyOCD, PySerial, PyVISA
- FastAPI, optional GraphQL exposure
AI & INTELLIGENT AUTOMATION
- LangChain, OpenAI API, Hugging Face Transformers
- FAISS / ChromaDB for embedding search
- Time-series anomaly detection integrated with Datadog / Grafana
WHAT WE VALUE
- You design test frameworks like production services — composable, observable, scalable.
- You think in invariants, fault domains, and edge cases and communicate that mindset to the team.
- You have a strong command of Python, embedded debugging, and cloud observability — and you enjoy teaching others.
- You treat automation as a first-class catalyst for engineering velocity and product quality, not a safety net.
- You’re motivated by measurable outcomes: reduced MTTR, higher release confidence, and faster developer feedback loops.
BONUS POINTS
- Leading contributions to open-source test frameworks or infrastructure tools.
- Experience exposing tests via FastAPI or GraphQL.
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