Gridware
Senior Research Engineer, Structural Dynamics & Vibrations
San Francisco, CA · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$175k-$200kDetected 161 days ago
PythonMATLABData AnalysisCustomer SuccessMechanical DesignAerospace EngineeringSignal ProcessingSensorsResearchCommunication
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About the role
- About Gridware Gridware is a San Francisco-based technology company dedicated to protecting and enhancing the electrical grid.
- We pioneered a groundbreaking new class of grid management called active grid response (AGR), focused on monitoring the electrical, physical, and environmental aspects of the grid that affect reliability and safety.
- This comprehensive approach helps improve safety, reduce outages, and ensure the grid operates efficiently.
Responsibilities
- Develop mechanical sensing performance requirements. Select and evaluate new sensors for current and new mechanical sensing capabilities.
- Root-cause mechanical sensor signal issues from fleet to bench: use fleet telemetry (time-series + metadata) to isolate failure patterns, modes and signatures, test hypotheses via dynamics modeling and benchtop reproduction, contribute to design solutions, and partner with HW, FW, and SW engineering to implement them.
- Characterize and validate how diverse infrastructure types - different pole materials, geometries, and equipment configurations - affect mechanical signal behavior.
- Translate findings into design guidance, device installation requirements, monitoring and data aggregation methods.
- Develop and own test methods to characterize and validate mechanical sensor performance across diverse and variable operating conditions.
- Develop hardware-in-the-loop test infrastructure to reproduce real-world mechanical phenomena Gridware technology detects. Run hardware-in-the-loop tests to validate changes to our tech stack (from phenomena → hardware → automation → customer).
- Develop signal quality observability for mechanical sensors: sensor trust metrics, quality scoring, and gating criteria for downstream uses of data.
- Collaborate closely with product managers, data scientists, automation engineers, SW / HW / FW engineers, as well as non-technical teams such as customer success, field teams, and manufacturing.
- Develop mechanical sensing performance requirements.
- Develop hardware-in-the-loop test infrastructure to reproduce real-world mechanical phenomena Gridware technology detects.
Requirements
- Experience collecting high-quality mechanical measurements: have built and run custom measurement setups using accelerometers, IMUs, force/strain transducers, and standard lab instrumentation ( DAQ and related tools).
- Experience leading technically complex work with multiple stakeholders and deadlines.
- Strong candidates will usually bring deep experience in several of these areas.
- Root-cause sensor signal issues: track record investigating and solving signal/noise issues - identifying issues through exploratory data analysis, reproducing in simulation and on the bench, and implementing solutions.
Nice to have
- Track record of owning ambiguous sensing, signal-quality, or measurement-performance problems from characterizing through validation.
- Scientific computing:
- comfortable writing analysis pipelines in Python, MATLAB, or equivalent to investigate and report system performance to broad audiences.
Compensation
- 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.
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
- Experience with deployed IoT fleets (tens of thousands of devices) and developing observability for long-term sensor performance - telemetry design, health metrics, calibration drift monitoring.
Company info
- Even if you meet only part of this list, we encourage you to apply!
- Role Description We are seeking a creative, hands-on Senior Mechanical Research Engineer with significant vibration and dynamics experience to lead complex mechanical sensing problems on edge grid intelligence products with real-world impact.
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