Director of Engineering, Data

🏢 Gridware · 📍 San Francisco, CA · 💼 hybrid · ⏰ Full-Time 💰 $260,000 - $280,000 / yr

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Position Summary & Responsibilities

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.

Role Overview

We’re looking for a Director of Engineering to lead Gridware’s company-wide data platforms. This is a hands-on, engineering leadership role: you’ll set the architecture, drive the roadmap, and build the team for a platform that’s live and in production today, with real customers, a legacy migration in flight, and a federated ownership model across a large number of business domains.

You’ll be working with novel, never-before-seen data: high-frequency mechanical, acoustic, electrical, and environmental signals from tens of thousands of power-constrained edge devices with intermittent connectivity, where ground truth comes from line crews in the field rather than a labeling vendor. This role will define new data problems that can be solved and change what the rest of the organization believes is possible with Gridware data.

🎯 Candidate Preparation Guide For Gridware Applicants

Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

Gridware evaluates candidates on hardware-software integration resilience and the ability to design ruggedized, low-power IoT systems that survive extreme field conditions.

📋 Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):

1. Designing solely for ideal laboratory conditions without accounting for thermal swings, moisture, and power loss
2. Showing impatience or lack of appreciation for utility-grade compliance and safety regulations
3. Lack of end-to-end debugging experience spanning firmware, enclosure, and cloud backend

✨ Recommended Role Alignment Hook:

I build resilient, low-power edge systems designed to survive extreme environments and deliver zero-failure telemetry to critical infrastructure operators.

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