Senior Mechanical Engineer

Number of employees

85

San Francisco, CA, United States

Posted on: 2025-02-10

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 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.

Team Overview 
The Hardware Engineering team is responsible for designing and testing all of our devices, from mechanicals and electronics to the firmware and protocols they run. Our devices save lives, but doing this means supporting a diverse set of continuously-sampling sensors and we need tens of thousands of units to run super-reliably for 10 years in extremely challenging environments, ranging from snowy mountaintops to forests and deserts. 

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 mechanical components and systems, ensuring they meet performance, reliability, and safety standards. 
  • Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including electrical and software engineering, to integrate designs into complete systems. 
  • Conduct simulations, prototyping, and testing to validate designs. 
  • Oversee manufacturing processes and ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations. 
  • Contribute to the continuous improvement of the product design and development p
  • Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related field. 
  • 5+ years of experience in mechanical engineering, preferably in a startup or technology-driven environment. 
  • Proficiency in CAD software (ideally SolidWorks) and simulation tools (e.g., FEA, CFD).  
  • Strongexperience in designing for mass manufacturing of plastic and sheet metal components 
  • Strong knowledge of GD&T principles, mechanical QA and tolerance stackup analysis 
  • Experience designing for outdoor environments, dealing with waterproofing, wide temperature ranges, high humidities, freeze-thaw and similar challenges. 
  • Strong knowledge of materials science, manufacturing processes, and DFM/DFA principles. 
  • Experience with hands on prototyping, testing, and validation of mechanical designs. 
  • Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail. 
  • Effective communication and collaboration skills. 
  • Familiarity with industry standards and compliance requirements. 
  • Bonus Skills

  • Familiarity with IoT systems or integrating mechanical designs with embedded hardware. 
  • Understanding of environmental testing (e.g., vibration, shock, temperature cycling). 
  • Background in sustainability-focused design or materials selection. 
  • Experience defining/challenging product requirements 
  • Thermal modeling experience 
  • Experience with opto-mechanical components and assemblies 
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