Full-Time
Senior RF Engineer
Devices
Updated on 8/21/2026
Gridware
51-200 employees
Real-time grid monitoring and predictive maintenance
Compensation Overview
$195k - $210k/yr
No H1B Sponsorship
San Francisco, CA, USA
Hybrid
Bachelor's, Master's, PhD
 Electrical Engineering (1) |
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- Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering or higher with 5+ years of experience in radio-frequency systems design and debugging.
- Strong hands-on experience in laboratory environments, including radio-frequency conducted measurements, over-the-air testing, and rework.
- Experience with cellular and/or low-power mesh networks.
- Proven experience with radio-frequency manufacturing line testing, fixture development, and validation.
- Strong understanding of radio desense and coexistence testing.
- Experience in radio-frequency certification and compliance, including PTCRB, electromagnetic interference, Federal Communications Commission, and CTIA requirements.
- Ability to script in Python or a similar language for radio-frequency test automation and data analysis.
- Proven collaboration experience with radio-frequency silicon vendors and internal electrical, mechanical, and firmware teams.
- Lead bring-up and production of state-of-the-art physical-layer wireless communication systems.
- Design and simulate wireless systems optimized for ultra-low-power applications.
- Perform link-budget modeling and system-level performance analysis.
- Integrate and validate wireless technologies including cellular, low-power mesh networking, non-terrestrial networks, GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth Low Energy, and LoRa.
- Collaborate across electrical, firmware, software, and mechanical teams to analyze radio-frequency telemetry data and optimize wireless network performance.
- Drive cross-functional alignment with antenna vendors, certification laboratories, and manufacturing partners.
- Direct experience partnering with radio-frequency silicon vendors.
- Deep cross-disciplinary collaboration across hardware, firmware, and mechanical engineering.
- Experience resolving radio-frequency coexistence issues in sensors.
- Experience in antenna design.
Gridware provides a sensor-based platform that monitors electrical grid assets in real time by placing sensors on power poles. Real-time data from pole-mounted sensors is sent to analytics that detect imminent faults and wildfire hazards, enabling preventive maintenance. It differentiates itself with pole-mounted hardware and predictive analytics aimed specifically at reducing wildfire risk in wildfire-prone regions. Its goal is to improve public safety and grid reliability while lowering outages and wildfire-related liabilities for utilities.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Series B
Total Funding
$97.3M
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
2020
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- November 17, 2025 Series B raised $55 million from Tiger Global and Generation.
- February 4, 2026 study showed AGR reduced wildfire ignitions and improved reliability.
- UK and Europe expansion aligns with Ofgem's 2026-2031 grid upgrades and data-center demand.
What critics are saying
- Hardware deployments require pole access and manufacturing scale; delays choke 2026 revenue.
- Utilities buy slowly; Gridware's 118 employees and zero 2026 hires signal execution strain.
- Siemens, Schneider, and utility-owned sensor programs can commoditize hazard detection and squeeze margins.
What makes Gridware unique
- Gridscope multi-sensors measure physical, electrical, structural, environmental signals on utility poles.
- Active Grid Response removes hazard-awareness delay with edge and network-level analysis.
- PG&E and Duquesne Light deployments prove utility-grade adoption across thousands of poles.
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Health Insurance
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Unlimited Paid Time Off
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Company-paid training
Growth & Insights and Company News
6 month growth
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↓ -1%Gridware, which makes sensors to evaluate electrical grid integrity and monitor power line hazards, has raised $55 million in a Series B round led by Al Gore's Generation Investment Management. The startup, which emerged from the CITRIS Foundry in spring 2020, plans to expand into Europe, beginning with the United Kingdom. The company's technology has reduced outages by up to 70% in some cases by preventing failures in advance or accelerating restoration after storms, according to CEO Tim Barat. The expansion comes as Ofgem, Great Britain's energy regulator, pursues an £80 billion network upgrade to accommodate increasing renewable power sources and surging data centre demand. Gridware's operational efficiency improvements aim to offset rising network expenses associated with the infrastructure upgrades.
Gridware raises $55M in Growth funding. Gridware, a San Francisco, CA-based grid-technology company, raised $55M in Growth funding. The round was led by Tiger Global and Generation Investment Management with participation from Sequoia Capital, Convective Capital, Fifty Years, True Ventures, Lowercarbon, and Y Combinator. The company intends to use the funds to expand its manufacturing capacity and scale deployment operations. Led by CEO Tim Barat, Gridware is a grid-technology company dedicated to improving safety and reliability on the electrical transmission and distribution systems. Its technology monitors the physical, mechanical, and environmental conditions of utility infrastructure to identify issues early, reduce outages, and support faster restoration. Its pole-mounted Gridscope system enables Active Grid Response (AGR) by measuring mechanical, electrical, and environmental signals and enabling real-time understanding of grid conditions, identifying hazards as they emerge.
Ventiva, developer of a thermal management technology designed to bridge the gap between active and passive thermal management in a solid-state form factor, raised $24.34 million through a combination of debt, Series C1 and Series C2 venture funding in a deal led by IAG Capital Partners.
Gridware last week raised $26.4 million in Series A financing, led by Seqoia Capital, with participation from existing backers Fifty Years, Lowercarbon Capital, True Ventures, and Convective Capital.
Gridware, a continuous power grid monitoring solution provider, today announced its Series A funding of $26.4 million led by Sequoia Capital.