Senior Systems Engineer, Sensors

San Francisco, CA

Full Time

Posted March 20, 2026

$185k - $210k

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Gridware is a San Francisco-based technology company dedicated to protecting and enhancing the electrical grid.

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.

MS in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a related field with 4+ years of relevant industry experience, or PhD with 1+ year of relevant industry experience.
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.
Strong fundamentals in electromagnetics.
Sensing & measurement: Sensor characterization, performance requirements, signal/noise investigation, test development, and validation of sensing systems.
Signal processing & embedded systems: DSP on real-world sensor signals, including sampling, filtering, compression, and embedded implementation.
Modeling & experimentation: First-principles modeling, circuit simulation (SPICE or similar), and hands-on experiments to understand physical phenomena and improve sensing performance.