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. Gridware’s advanced Active Grid Response platform uses high-precision sensors to detect potential issues early, enabling proactive maintenance and fault mitigation. This comprehensive approach helps improve safety, reduce outages, and ensure the grid operates efficiently. The company is backed by climate-tech and Silicon Valley investors. For more information, please visit www.Gridware.io.

About the Role

Gridware is hiring a Senior Electronics Reliability Engineer to drive reliability and failure analysis for our outdoor electronic systems. This role focuses on PCBAs and electronic components, ensuring our products perform reliably in real-world environments over time.

You’ll work closely with hardware, firmware, and manufacturing teams to identify, debug, and prevent failures at the board and component level. This role emphasizes practical reliability—understanding how electronics fail in the field and using that insight to improve design.

Responsibilities

Analyze and debug board-level failures, identify root causes, and drive corrective actions across design and manufacturing
Review PCBA designs, layouts, and component selections to identify reliability risks early in development
Develop and execute reliability and validation plans for PCBAs and electronic assemblies
Apply reliability methodologies (e.g., DFMEA, DFR, accelerated testing) to identify and mitigate risks
Investigate field failures and test data to understand failure mechanisms and improve product robustness
Partner with hardware, firmware, and manufacturing teams to drive reliability improvements from design through production
Work with external partners (CMs/ODMs, test labs) to validate designs and improve system reliability

Required Skills

6+ years of experience in electrical, hardware, or reliability engineering
Strong experience working with PCBAs, including board-level debugging, bring-up, or design collaboration
Hands-on experience with failure analysis and root cause investigation of electronic systems
Understanding of common failure mechanisms in PCBAs and electronic components (e.g., solder joints, interconnects, capacitors, semiconductors)
Familiarity with reliability principles such as DFMEA, DFR, or accelerated testing
Experience working cross-functionally with hardware, manufacturing, and suppliers
Ability to operate in a fast-paced, hands-on, and collaborative environment

Bonus Skills

Experience working with contract manufacturers (CMs/ODMs) and production environments
Experience analyzing field data or identifying failure trends
Experience with environmental or outdoor electronics systems
Familiarity with reliability or statistical analysis tools (e.g., Excel, JMP, MATLAB)
Experience with lifetime modeling and reliability prediction

$145,000 - $185,000 a year

This describes the ideal candidate; many of us have picked up this expertise along the way. Even if you meet only part of this list, we encourage you to apply!

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

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