Senior Electrical Design Engineer

Gridware

San Francisco, CA, United States

Posted on: 2025-09-16

Category: energy

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Employment type:

Full time

Experience required:

Senior

Salary

Salary not provided

About the company:

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.

About Gridware

Gridware is a San Francisco-based technology company dedicated to 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 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 backed by climate-tech and Silicon Valley investors. For more information, please visit www.Gridware.io.

Role Description

The Senior Electrical Design Engineer is responsible for designing, testing, and optimizing hardware systems for grid monitoring devices. This role involves developing and troubleshooting electrical circuits, collaborating with firmware engineers, and ensuring compliance with industry standards. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience in electrical engineering, strong problem-solving skills, and a passion for hardware development.

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

Design and develop electrical circuits and components for sensor devices and grid monitoring systems.

Conduct testing and validation of hardware prototypes to ensure performance and reliability.

Collaborate with firmware engineers to integrate hardware components with embedded systems.

Troubleshoot and resolve hardware issues in prototypes and deployed devices.

Ensure compliance with industry standards and certifications for electrical systems.

Required Skills

3-7 years of experience in electrical engineering, with a focus on hardware design and development.

Strong understanding of analog and digital circuits, signal processing, and power systems, and experience with relevant simulation software (e.g.LTSpice)

Proficiency with laboratory tools for electronics prototyping and troubleshooting (i.e. oscilloscopes, logic analyzers)

Experience with schematic capture and PCB layout software (i.e. Altium, KiCAD)Degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.