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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 Description

We’re looking for a Senior Firmware Engineer with deep expertise in wireless communications to help shape the future of Gridware’s connected devices. In this role, you’ll design and optimize firmware that powers resilient, low-power networks—leveraging peer-to-peer, mesh (802.15.4, Zigbee, Thread), Matter, and emerging NTN protocols. Your work will expand device connectivity while reducing dependency on costly gateways, directly impacting performance, reliability, and uptime across a rapidly scaling fleet.

What You’ll Do

Design and implement firmware for next-gen wireless communication protocols.
Build and customize mesh networking solutions to extend device coverage and resilience.
Optimize communication stacks for maximum efficiency under real-world constraints.
Prototype, test, and iterate quickly with hardware in the loop.
Partner with hardware and systems teams on protocol design and integration.
Debug, validate, and tune performance across diverse environments.

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 is compromised, 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, and other related disasters, from happening at all. 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. We are headquartered in San Francisco

Senior Firmware Engineer, Wireless Communications

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