
Research Engineer, Electrical
Gridware
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $150,000 - $165,000 per year
Tech Stack
About the role
- Contribute to the development of measurement performance requirements. Evaluate new sensors for current and new sensing capabilities.
- Design and execute benchtop and full-scale experiments to characterize sensor and system performance.
- Support investigations from fleet observations through exploratory data analysis of fleet telemetry, bench reproduction, simulation, and test execution. Investigate signal behavior and communicate findings.
- Contribute to research of new sensing capabilities.
- Help develop validation methods and implementation-ready technical recommendations.
- Collaborate closely with product managers, data scientists, and SW/HW/FW engineers
Requirements
- MS in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a closely related field and 2+ years of relevant industry experience.
- Strong fundamentals in electromagnetics, signal processing, or circuits.
- Hands-on experience contributing to physical experiments, measurement setups, hardware validation, or bench investigations.
- Scientific computing: comfortable writing analysis pipelines in Python, MATLAB, or equivalent.
- Experience collecting high-quality electrical measurements: have built and run custom measurement setups using standard lab instrumentation (scope/DAQ and related tools).
- Clear technical communication and documentation skills.
- Comfortable working on ambiguous technical problems and learning new domains quickly.
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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
electromagneticssignal processingcircuitsscientific computingPythonMATLABhardware validationmeasurement setupsdata analysisexperimental design
Soft Skills
technical communicationdocumentationproblem-solvingcollaborationadaptability