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Senior Systems Engineer, Sensors

Gridware· R&D
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA)$185k - $210kFull-timePosted 7mo ago

About the role

Senior Systems Engineer role focused on sensing and measurement problems for Gridware's active grid response platform. Responsible for measurement-chain improvements, sensing requirements, hardware-in-the-loop testing, and collaboration across HW, FW, data science, and product management.

Responsibilities

  • Develop measurement performance requirements. Select and evaluate new sensors for current and new sensing capabilities.
  • Root-cause sensor signal issues from fleet to bench: use fleet telemetry to isolate cohorts and failure signatures, test hypotheses via circuit simulation and benchtop reproduction, drive fixes design solutions, and partner with HW and FW engineering to implement them.
  • Design and validate measurement chain changes to improve physical phenomena observability.
  • Downsize on-device data. Develop signal compression techniques, selective data storage decisions, and sampling rate reduction strategies.
  • Develop and own test methods to characterize and validate sensor performance.
  • Develop hardware-in-the-loop test infrastructure to reproduce the real-world physical phenomena Gridware technology detects. Run hardware-in-the-loop tests to validate changes to our tech stack (HW, phenomena detection algorithms).
  • Mentor team members. Raise the technical rigor of experiments, analysis, and validation work.
  • Collaborate closely with product managers, data scientists, and SW/HW/FW engineers.

Qualifications

  • MS in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a related field with 4+ years of relevant industry experience, or PhD with 1+ year of relevant industry experience.
  • Track record of owning ambiguous sensing, signal-quality, or measurement-performance problems from framing through validation.
  • Scientific computing: comfortable writing analysis pipelines in Python, MATLAB, or equivalent to investigate and report system performance.
  • Experience collecting high-quality electrical measurements: have built and run custom measurement setups using standard lab instrumentation (scope/DAQ and related tools).
  • Strong technical judgment, communication, and cross-functional collaboration.
  • Experience leading technically complex work with multiple stakeholders and deadlines.
  • Strong fundamentals in electromagnetics.
  • Relevant Depth Areas: Sensing & measurement; Signal processing & embedded systems; Modeling & experimentation.

Skills

Required:Measurement performance requirementsSensor selection and evaluationPython/MATLABCircuit simulation

Benefits

  • Health, Dental & Vision (Gold and Platinum with some providers plans fully covered)
  • Paid parental leave
  • Alternating day off (every other Monday)
  • Off the Grid, a two week per year paid break for all employees.
  • Commuter allowance
  • Company-paid training
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Protecting the grid today, preparing the grid for tomorrow

Gridware exists to enhance and protect the mother of all networks: the electrical grid. The grid touches everyone and makes our modern economy possible. But it’s also fragile. When the grid is compromised, everything grinds to a halt, and the consequences can be dire: wildfires burn, land is destroyed, property is damaged, progress stops, and lives are lost. Our team builds smart sensors that help utility companies to immediately detect, find, and fix outages and take steps to prevent new outages, and other related disasters, from happening at all. The need for power will only increase. We protect the grid of today while we build the grid of tomorrow. Gridware is privately held and backed by the best climate-tech and Silicon Valley investors. We are headquartered in the Bay Area in northern California.

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