Failure Analysis Engineer

Number of employees

120

San Francisco, CA, United States

Posted on: 2025-04-30

Category: energy

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Employment type:

Full time

Experience required:

Intermediate

Salary

Salary not provided

About the company:

Gridware is a technology company focused on protecting and enhancing the electrical grid. We pioneered a groundbreaking new class of grid management called active grid response (AGR), focused on monitoring the electrical, physical, and environmental aspects of the grid that affect reliability and safety. Gridware’s advanced active grid response platform uses high-precision mechanical sensors to detect potential issues early, enabling proactive maintenance and fault mitigation. This comprehensive approach helps improve safety, reduce outages, and ensure the grid operates efficiently. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and is backed by climate-tech and Silicon Valley investors. For more information, please visit www.Gridware.io.

About Gridware
Gridware exists to enhance and protect the mother of all networks: the electrical grid. The grid touches everything and the consequences can be dire when it fails: wildfires burn, land is destroyed, property is damaged, and lives are lost.

Our team created an advanced sensing system to continuously analyze critical grid behavior. Utilizing high-precision sensor arrays and intelligence, our system identifies and preemptively mitigates faults. The technology has been proven with utilities to bolster safety, enhance reliability, and reduce outages. The demand 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 San Francisco, California.

Role Description
As a Failure Analysis Engineer, you will be responsible for testing, troubleshooting, diagnosing, and determining the root cause of failures of Gridware products.  These failing products will include field failures, manufacturing failures, and reliability test failures.  You will work closely with field operations, fleet management, manufacturing engineering, contract manufacturing engineering, reliability engineering, hardware engineering, and firmware engineering. 
You will play a key role in investigating failures, determining root cause, contributing to corrective action plans, and helping drive continuous product improvement.

This describes the ideal candidate; many of us have picked up this expertise along the way. Even if you meet only part of this list, we encourage you to apply!

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 

Responsibilities

  • Tracking failed units from the field, manufacturing, and reliability testing, and documenting findings.
  • Independently performing failure analysis and identifying root causes of failing products.
  • Work closely with manufacturing, quality, and engineering teams to provide feedback and drive corrective actions.
  • Develop and maintain reports, tracking trends in failures and identifying areas for improvement.
  • Improve and optimize failure analysis workflows to enhance efficiency and reduce turnaround times.
  • Ensure compliance with product return policies and communicate findings to customers, suppliers, and internal stakeholders.
  • Independently perform failure analysis and debugging of hardware and firmware issues.
  • Maintain proper records and documentation of failure description, test results, internal & external visual findings, failure isolation, photos, and root cause analysis.
  • Work with component suppliers on component-level failure analysis when required.
  • Provide technical insights to help improve product designs and manufacturing processes.
  • Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related equivalent.
  • 3+ years of experience in electronics testing, troubleshooting, and failure analysis, within hardware, electronics, or embedded systems industries.
  • Strong understanding of electronic circuits and components, printed circuit boards, electromechanical components, mechanical components, and troubleshooting techniques.
  • Proficiency in using electronic test equipment (multimeters, oscilloscopes, etc.), including automatic test equipment.
  • Ability to read and interpret schematics, mechanical drawings, and technical documentation.
  • Excellent soldering / desoldering and component-level repair skills.
  • Software programming skills including Python and LabView. 
  • Knowledge of firmware and embedded systems is a plus.
  • Strong organizational skills and ability to handle multiple analyses simultaneously.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills for cross-functional collaboration, documentation, and record keeping.
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