Sr. Electric Home Designer

About Zero Homes 

At Zero Homes, our mission is to electrify the world’s homes for healthy and sustainable living. With residential buildings responsible for 20% of national climate emissions, there is an extraordinary opportunity to get homes off fossil fuels, help homeowners save money, and impact decarbonization at scale. Zero Homes is pioneering a frictionless, digital sales and install experience to accelerate the transition to an all-electric future with a category defining software product. We enable homeowners everywhere, with a commodity smartphone, to get high quality advice, actionable quotes, and affordable installations without a single home visit.

Our focus is to make electrifying homes accessible, affordable, and delightful. Join our team to help lead the charge and accelerate the energy transition.

About the Role & Your Impact

We are hiring a Sr. Electric Home Designer to be our in-house technical expert. This role will involve completing Manual J/S with HVAC design software, scoping electrical requirements and upgrades to NEC 220.83 standards, specifying water heater and battery upgrades, and scoping weatherization projects.The Electric Home Design Specialist will work closely with home comfort advisors, sales teams, and installation managers to ensure systems are designed according to customer specifications, building codes, and energy efficiency standards. This role will also support the development of design documents, plans, specifications, and quotes, ensuring that high-quality solutions are delivered by our Field Operations team. Ultimately, the Electric Home Design Specialist will be responsible for establishing quality control processes that ensure all designs and heat pump solutions going to customers meet Zero Homes’ rigorous standards. 

• 5+ years of system design experience and/or relevant deep technical experience, including load calculations, equipment selection, and/or energy modeling
• Deep understanding of residential buildings (i.e., Building Science, residential mechanical, electrical, plumbing (MEP), heat pump technology, and heat pump products
• Fluency in data-driven tooling and software, such as spreadsheets, python, etc.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills; we're looking for team players
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field preferred but not required

• BPI-Analyst/Professional
• HVAC sales experience or home energy assessment experience
• Ability to speak Spanish or other languages to support customers or partners whose native language is not English

Zero Homes is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible experience for all candidates. We encourage you to apply even if you believe that you do not meet all of the above criteria!