The Company

We are excited to partner with Gridware, a fast-growing grid-resiliency company in San Francisco. They exist to enhance and protect the mother of all networks: the electrical grid. The grid touches everything grinds to a halt, and the consequences can be dire: wildfires burn, land is destroyed, property is damaged, progress stops, and lives are lost.  

Their team of engineers has built an advanced sensing system to continuously analyze both the electrical and mechanical behavior of grid assets. Utilizing high precision sensor arrays, the system identifies and allows preemptive mitigation of faults. The technology has been proven with utilities to bolster safety, reliability, and reduce customer outage durations. The demand for power will only increase. They 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. They are headquartered in the Bay Area in northern California.

Your Impact (Responsibilities)

Our goal is to stop grid-ignited wildfires. To do that, our devices need to run robust, well-tested, and power-efficient firmware. We are looking for you to help us develop that firmware. You will solve power consumption, communications, and signal processing challenges, enabling our devices to detect subtle faults in increasingly remote regions.

• Develop C++ firmware for our microcontroller platform
• Implement C++ drivers for microcontroller peripherals and external sensors
• Work with our backend codebase to develop and test device communications
• Maintain and extend our build system to support various embedded hardware platforms
• Develop efficient data processing and collection algorithms in a resource-constrained environment
• Develop hardware in the loop (HITL) testing infrastructure
  

About You

• 5+ years embedded software engineering experience (RTOS’s or bare metal)
• Comfortable working across multiple domains (hardware, firmware, software)
• Strong C and/or C++ knowledge
• Python or another scripting language
• Comfortable using Git
• Comfortable in a Linux development environment
• Comfortable debugging with an oscilloscope and/or logic analyzer