# Senior Systems Engineer, Sensors at Gridware

- Company: Gridware
- What the company does: With more than 90 million field hours and counting, Gridware is already detecting the small changes that lead to big problems.Together with utility companies, we’re preventing hazards from causing harm. We’re helping crews restore power quickly and safely.... Backed by Sequoia and Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://www.gridware.io/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Work setup: Hybrid
- Pay: $185K to $210K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-03-20
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/gridware/c89f6642-62ee-437a-8812-c39a4aa092d6
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/gridware-senior-systems-engineer-sensors/

## About the role

You will become an expert in how our grid sensor signals behave in the real world. You will investigate sensing issues and performance via exploratory data analysis, hardware simulation, and bench debugging, design improvements, and validate improvements using test infrastructure you develop. You will define sensing requirements, develop measurement-chain improvements, and help mature new sensing capabilities.

## What they're looking for

- 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

Tags: R&D