Product Testing and Reliability Engineer
Product Testing and Reliability Engineer
Gridware
San Francisco, CA
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Gridware exists to enhance and protect the mother of all networks: the electrical grid. The grid touches everyone and makes our modern economy possible. But it's also fragile. When the grid goes down, 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.
Our team builds smart sensors that help utility companies to immediately detect, find, and fix outages and take steps to prevent new outages from happening. The need for power will only increase. We 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 in the world. We are headquartered in the Bay Area in northern California.
About The Role
As a product testing and reliability engineer at Gridware, you will be responsible for quantifying the longevity of our product and helping simulate real-world events to advance our detection capabilities. You'll help us meet the challenge of getting to three and four nines of reliability we need to protect the power grid and prevent the next big blaze, and validate the performance of the 12 different sensors in our devices across a wide variety of environmental conditions. You'll work side-by-side with a friendly but driven team of mechanical, electrical, software, and firmware engineers and data scientists that have built technologies from satellites to novel batteries and ultra-precise cooking devices to secure OS's and industrial-scale logistics software.
Responsibilities
Our team builds smart sensors that help utility companies to immediately detect, find, and fix outages and take steps to prevent new outages from happening. The need for power will only increase. We 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 in the world. We are headquartered in the Bay Area in northern California.
About The Role
As a product testing and reliability engineer at Gridware, you will be responsible for quantifying the longevity of our product and helping simulate real-world events to advance our detection capabilities. You'll help us meet the challenge of getting to three and four nines of reliability we need to protect the power grid and prevent the next big blaze, and validate the performance of the 12 different sensors in our devices across a wide variety of environmental conditions. You'll work side-by-side with a friendly but driven team of mechanical, electrical, software, and firmware engineers and data scientists that have built technologies from satellites to novel batteries and ultra-precise cooking devices to secure OS's and industrial-scale logistics software.
Responsibilities
- Oversee reliability testing and analysis through the entire product lifecycle
- Develop and execute realistic environmental stress tests
- Lead and document FMEA (Failure Mode Effects Analysis) and root cause analysis
- Develop acceleration models and accelerated tests for electrical and mechanical systems
- Develop new reliability test specifications and procedures
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement mitigations for reliability risks
- Study and document how nature (animals, atmospheric conditions/composition, sunlight and weather) affects our products
- Build and/or procure prototype measurement equipment capable of detecting and simulating various physical quantities within a complex system
- Design and execute experiments to demonstrate proof-of-concept detection methods
- Collaborate across the organization to create short- and long-term development plans to efficiently evaluate a plethora of research concepts
- Have good common sense, hands-on practical experience and the ability to work independently without heavy supervision
- 5+ years experience in technical industry, especially research & development environment or product validation and verification/reliability testing
- Direct experience developing and implementing measurement systems, preferably with experience procuring and working with 3rd party devices for research purposes
- Demonstrated experience developing research plans and rapidly eliminating non-viable paths
- Good network of test labs and sources of test equipment and fabricators of custom test fixtures
- Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, or equivalent discipline
- Some Python development experience, including statistical analysis and data science tools
- Knowledge of industry test standards including ASTM, MIL, JEDEC, and IEC
- Electromechanical background designing things with moving components
- Strong background and understanding of physics/mechanics (ex. vibrations, elastic theory, spectroscopy, electricity and magnetism background a bonus)
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Seniority level
Associate -
Employment type
Full-time -
Job function
Engineering and Information Technology -
Industries
IT Services and IT Consulting and Software Development
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