Senior Engineering Manager, Hardware

Number of employees

85

San Francisco, CA, United States

Posted on: 2025-06-13

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 
As a Senior Manager on the Hardware team you will be responsible for leading all ofhte Hardware Engineering functions for a project (EE, ME, FW, and REL).  The ideal candidate is a proactive problem solver who thrives in ambiguity, brings clarity through structured and creative thinking, and isn’t afraid to roll up their sleeves. They communicate with empathy and precision, tailoring messages to resonate across audiences and disciplines. A strong sense of ownership, a product-first mentality, and a collaborative spirit are essential. You should be someone who can identify opportunities others may miss, form compelling ideas, and drive them into action—whether that means hands-on technical work, thoughtful cross-functional alignment, or shaping the future direction of the product. 

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 

Your background might look like

  • Understands and deals well with rapid development cycles; remains flexible when faced with uncertainty and changes in direction 
  • Ability to be influential on a highly integrated team of technical and non-technical members. 
  • Manage product development programs by defining milestones and success criteria, resource allocation, and successful on-time delivery. 
  • Use technical judgment while working with large, cross-functional teams. 
  • Develop tools and processes to improve hardware engineering productivity. 
  • Ownership of schedules, budgets, priorities for hardware projects. 
  • Identify and highlight technical risk areas and mitigation strategies in partnership with impacted teams to own driving them to closure 
  • Define best practices and be a coach/mentor to develop people on your team 
  • Required skills

  • Bachelor’s degree inElectrical Engineering or Computer Science or equivalent practical experience. 
  • 10 years of professional experience in hardware product development with 3 yrs managing a team. 
  • Bonus Skills

  • Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Scienceor a related technical field. 
  • 15 years of professional experience in hardware product development with 5 yrs managing a team. 
  • Experience partnering with cross-functional leadership 
  • Experience building highly effective engineering organizations, partnering closely with cross-functional teams and influencing without authority. 
  • Experience with developing product for high volume mass production 
  • Experience collaborating with factories and/or supply chain to coordinate NPI development activities 
  • Experience contributing to the creation or evolution of Product Development Processes (PDP) 
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    Number of employees

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