Software Engineer (Data Infrastructure)

In-person - Walnut Creek, CA (Bay Area)

Gridware is on a mission to create a future without wildland fires. 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 an excellent software engineer who is action oriented with a deep understanding of data as a resource.

Why do we need you?

We’re at an exciting point where we are ramping up field deployments of our power grid monitoring devices as well as cutting-edge physical experiments to generate large quantities of time-series data in answering critical questions about the grid. We rely on robust infrastructure and software tools to conduct analyes and build inference models that can predict or detect catastrophic grid faults. Insights extracted from data resrouces directly inform our core product and the quality of services delivered to end customers. As an early team member you will have the opportunity to set the foundation for how we work with large-scale data harvested by at-edge systems. You’ll work side-by-side with a highly driven team of mechanical/electrical/software engineers, researchers, and data scientists that have built technologies from satellites and 3D printers to secure operating systems and industrial-scale logistics software.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement software systems that support day-to-day data operations
• Design and productionize tools used by the entire company to ingest and query high-frequency time series data
• Bring up and maintain cloud infrastructure to supercharge compute-heavy analysis campaigns
• Collaborate closely with data scientists to build best-practice workflows for managing data resources

Requirements

• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience
• B.S. in computer science or equivalent
• Experience with standard tooling, environments, and languages such as pytorch, tensorflow, git, linux, SQL, python, etc.
• Strong underestanding of available off-the-shelf data platforms, tools, and technologies
• Experience building cloud infrastructure and data pipelines
• Highly motivated, self-starting, and able to perform duties without supervision

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.