Senior Experimental Research Engineer, Electromagnetics
Gridware
San Francisco, CA, USA
Posted on Mar 26, 2025
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.
About the Role
We are seeking a creative, fast-paced experimentalist to join our growing Physical R&D team. You will be responsible for leading early-stage research of novel sensing technologies to expand our product offerings. The ideal candidate will be an expert in electromagnetic theory, experimental design, and hands-on development of novel experimental methods involving kW-level power electronics.
This is not a product development role. All project work is focused on early-stage research to de-risk potential, future products. The work focuses on iterative physical experimentation to discover novel technology.
Responsibilities
- Lead early-stage cross-functional research projects to expand Gridware’s product offerings.
- Independently conduct experiments to invent measurement technology. Build your experimental infrastructure, including measurement equipment implementation, hardware prototypes, and novel methods to emulate the physical phenomena you're trying to measure.
- Write clean code to analyze experimental results, perform exploratory data analysis, and model physical phenomena.
- Conduct literature reviews and research on novel sensing technology.
- Work closely with cross-functional teams, including data scientists, product development engineers, and product managers.
- Serve as the physics SME for high power, electromagnetic systems..
Required Skills
- 4+ years of developing novel experimental methods and executing physical experiments to answer research questions. Note: this does not include evaluating PCB performance using standard EE benchtop test methods.
- 4+ years of quantitative modeling and analysis experience in a scientific computing language like MATLAB or Python.
- 4+ years of experience with kW-level power electronics.
- Experience using data acquisition systems to acquire time-series measurements of dynamical systems.
- Strong fundamentals in Electromagnetics (E&M).
Bonus Skills
- Project leadership: can lead and deliver on complex, abstract, cross-functional problems with strict deadlines.
- Hands-on experience with high power AC/DC-AC/DC converters, custom magnetics, ionizing voltages, and breakdown dielectrics.
- Strong fundamentals in applied mathematics (linear algebra, ODEs, PDEs, numerical analysis, dynamical systems).
This role is most relevant to people with degrees in
- Physics
- Electrical Engineering
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