Senior Research Engineer, Electrical

Gridware

Senior Research Engineer leading ambiguous sensing and measurement problems impacting grid technology. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to develop and validate sensing capabilities.

Posted 5/29/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $185,000 - $200,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Python

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Develop measurement performance requirements. Select and evaluate new sensors for current and new sensing capabilities.
Root-cause sensor signal issues from fleet to bench: use fleet telemetry (time-series + metadata) to isolate cohorts and failure signatures, test hypotheses via circuit simulation and benchtop reproduction, drive fixes design solutions, and partner with HW and FW engineering to implement them.
Design and validate measurement chain changes to improve physical phenomena observability.
Downsize on-device data. Develop signal compression techniques, selective data storage decisions, and sampling rate reduction strategies.
Develop and own test methods to characterize and validate sensor performance.
Develop hardware-in-the-loop test infrastructure to reproduce the real-world physical phenomena Gridware technology detects. Run hardware-in-the-loop tests to validate changes to our tech stack (HW, phenomena detection algorithms).
Mentor team members. Raise the technical rigor of experiments, analysis, and validation work.
Collaborate closely with product managers, data scientists, and SW/HW/FW engineers.

Requirements

What you’ll need

MS in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a closely related field plus 5+ years of relevant industry experience owning ambiguous sensing / signal-quality problems end-to-end, or PhD in one of those fields plus 2+ years of relevant industry experience.
Strong fundamentals in electromagnetics.
Track record of owning ambiguous sensing, signal-quality, or measurement-performance problems from framing through validation.
Scientific computing: comfortable writing analysis pipelines in Python, MATLAB, or equivalent to investigate and report system performance.
Experience collecting high-quality electrical measurements: have built and run custom measurement setups using standard lab instrumentation (scope/DAQ and related tools).
Strong technical judgment, communication, and cross-functional collaboration.
Experience leading technically complex work with multiple stakeholders and deadlines.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

sensor performancesignal compression techniquesdata storage decisionssampling rate reductiontest methods developmenthardware-in-the-loop testingcircuit simulationelectromagneticsscientific computinganalysis pipelines

Soft Skills

technical judgmentcommunicationcross-functional collaborationmentoringleadershipproblem-solvinganalytical thinkingteamworkstakeholder managementtime management