Senior Mechanical Product Design Engineer

Gridware is on a mission to create a future without deadly wildfires. We’re a startup building hardware and software that monitors the power grid to prevent and detect faults that lead to wildfire ignition. (More about Gridware below).

To make that happen, we’re currently looking for a Senior Mechanical Product Design Engineer to join our growing team.

Your challenge

• Help Gridware overcome key engineering problems surrounding product reliability, assembly, manufacturing, and environmental susceptibility
• Build scalable design, analysis, and cross-disciplinary collaboration processes to enable rapid iteration on full-stack systems

Roles & Responsibilities

• Translate product and hardware requirements into robust mechanical designs that elegantly integrate electrical subsystems
• Lead decision-making around selection and procurement of mechanical components
• Define and help in executing the manufacturing process for assembly, integration, and quality control
• Thrive in agile, fast-paced environments
• Collaborates well with enthusiastic, collaborative, mission-driven individuals.

Requirements

• Strong fundamentals and 2+ years of professional experience in product design, Computer Aided Design (CAD) (Solidworks/Fusion360), and Design for Manufacturing/Assembly (DFM/DFA)
• Experience in designing/manufacturing plastic and metal parts
• Demonstrated ability to design for integration of electrical subsystems (batteries, camera, PCBAs, wiring harnesses, etc.)
• Bonus: Experience with designing for long-term outdoor use (e.g., weather sealing, UV-resistance, insulating equipment, etc.)
• Bonus: Experience with environmental testing of assemblies (e.g., TVAC, vibration testing, field testing, etc.)

Most relevant to people with degrees in:

• Mechanical Engineering
• Mechatronics Engineering

Benefits

We offer competitive benefits that help employees to thrive and grow. These benefits include:

• An attractive salary with bonus plan
• Health insurance
• Flexible working hours
• Stock option plan

About Gridware

Our Culture

We are a mission-driven team passionate about saving lives and creating a future without wildfires.

Our Vision

Save Lives Everyday, Everywhere

Our Mission

Prevent catastrophic failures by building a highly adaptable platform capable of answering any question about critical infrastructure.

What we do

We provide a full-stack (hardware + firmware + software) solution for real-time monitoring of America's power distribution grid. Our low-cost hardware platforms are deployed to power poles, where they

• detect and predict faults that lead to wildfire ignition or outages
• expedite repairs during power outages

Gridware’s technology is designed to unlock essential values for other adjacent verticals. Our unique positioning allows us to solve some of the world’s most burning challenges - from helping policy makers make data-driven infrastructure decisions to helping farmers overcome micro-climate challenges. While others turn a blind eye to these aged and highly-regulated industries, we at Gridware believe it’s our duty to find win-for-all scenarios that lead to a prosperous future for coming generations.

Our investors

Gridware is a privately-held company with funding from major investors such as

• True Ventures
• Fifty Years
• Y Combinator

Gridware is an equal opportunity employer. We want applicants of diverse backgrounds and hire without regard to color, gender, religion, national origin, citizenship, disability, age, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Gridware is located in Walnut Creek, California.

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