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At Resolute Grid, we believe humanity should be limited only by its creativity, not by its access to power. The American electric grid is one of the greatest engineering achievements in history: a machine spanning a continent that powers every home, hospital, factory and data center. Now we’re asking more of it than ever. Renewable energy, electric vehicles, and the push to electrify everything all depend on a strained grid.
Multi-year lead times don’t have to be the status quo. Resolute Grid is answering the critical demand of the American grid by rethinking power transformers from first principles and improving them in innovative ways that raise the bar for quality and reliability. By manufacturing American-made transformers in weeks rather than years, we are securing a stronger grid and more accessible power across the country. Our team of industry veterans works side by side to take ideas from paper to product. We are the pointy end of the spear: the people who turn creativity into the hardware that makes the grid resilient and affordable.
Hard problems. Real hardware.
FEA Mechanical EngineerSan Francisco, CA · Hybrid
We are seeking a FEA Mechanical Engineer to lead the structural analysis of our power transformers, making sure our designs can handle short-circuit forces, seismic events and decades of service.
What to expect
You will be part of the founding research and development engineering team. We’re looking for creative, hardworking engineers who want to grow fast, take on hard problems and see their work make a real difference. We also believe the best engineering comes from people who have room to think. That means a life with balance, and a team where people look out for each other, share what they know and lift the people around them. If you want to do the most meaningful work of your career with people you’ll be proud to work alongside, we’d love to meet you.
This is a hybrid role, with regular time onsite and opportunities to work from home.
What you’ll do
- Own structural analysis for our power transformers, from tanks and core clamping to winding supports, with direct visibility to senior leadership.
- Analyze short-circuit force response using inputs from the magnetics team.
- Run seismic, transportation, modal, vibration and fatigue analyses.
- Run thermal-stress analyses with the thermal team.
- Validate models with strain gauge and vibration testing.
- Recommend design changes that make our hardware stronger, lighter and easier to build.
What you bring
- BS or MS in Mechanical Engineering, Structural Engineering or a related field.
- Strong experience with structural and dynamic finite element analysis.
- Strong fundamentals in mechanics of materials, including nonlinear and contact analysis.
- Ability to check simulation results with hand calculations.
- Experience with 3D CAD.
- Experience correlating analysis with test data.
Lab TechnicianSan Francisco, CA · Hybrid
We are seeking a Lab Technician to own our lab space and help our engineering team build and test new ideas fast.
What to expect
You will be part of the founding research and development engineering team. We’re looking for creative, hardworking engineers who want to grow fast, take on hard problems and see their work make a real difference. We also believe the best engineering comes from people who have room to think. That means a life with balance, and a team where people look out for each other, share what they know and lift the people around them. If you want to do the most meaningful work of your career with people you’ll be proud to work alongside, we’d love to meet you.
This is a hybrid role, with regular time onsite in our lab working hands-on with hardware.
What you’ll do
- Own our lab space, keeping it organized, stocked and ready for work.
- Own the lab’s material inventory, including ordering and tracking supplies.
- Build test setups, fixtures and wiring harnesses with the engineering team.
- Help build prototypes and other hardware for our R&D programs.
- Run regular safety checks and help improve our safety practices.
- Support the engineering team with sample prep, testing and data collection.
- Maintain lab equipment and calibration schedules.
What you bring
- Hands-on experience working in an electrical or mechanical lab.
- Experience using multimeters, oscilloscopes, power supplies and similar instruments.
- Skill with hand and power tools, soldering and crimping.
- Ability to read drawings and schematics.
- Experience managing inventory and supplies.
- A strong safety mindset.
- Careful attention to detail and documentation.
Lead Electrical EngineerSan Francisco, CA · Hybrid
We are seeking a Lead Electrical Engineer to build the sensors, instrumentation and novel equipment that detect quality issues in our transformers and their components. This is a hands-on generalist role: you’ll move between sensor design, fast transient measurement, protection circuitry and pulsed high-voltage design.
What to expect
You will be part of the founding research and development engineering team. We’re looking for creative, hardworking engineers who want to grow fast, take on hard problems and see their work make a real difference. We also believe the best engineering comes from people who have room to think. That means a life with balance, and a team where people look out for each other, share what they know and lift the people around them. If you want to do the most meaningful work of your career with people you’ll be proud to work alongside, we’d love to meet you.
As a lead, you’ll set the technical direction for your discipline and help build and mentor the team around you.
This is a hybrid role, with regular time onsite and opportunities to work from home.
What you’ll do
- Lead electrical design of sensors, instrumentation and test equipment across the company, with direct visibility to senior leadership.
- Develop novel quality detection tools and equipment for our transformers and their components.
- Design the excitation, analog front ends, data acquisition and signal processing that pull small signals out of the noise.
- Design sensors that measure high-energy, fast-rise-time transients.
- Design hardening for electronics and equipment, including surge suppression, filtering, shielding and grounding.
- Size and specify capacitors for high-voltage and pulsed applications.
- Build and mentor the electrical engineering team.
What you bring
- BS, MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
- Broad electrical engineering skills across sensors, analog and mixed-signal circuits, PCB design and power electronics.
- Experience with inductive or eddy-current sensing, electromagnetic non-destructive testing, or similar signal processing.
- Experience measuring high-energy, fast-rise-time transients with high-bandwidth sensors and instrumentation.
- Experience with surge protection, shielding, grounding and EMC design for electronics.
- Experience with pulsed power, including selecting and sizing capacitors for high-voltage, high-energy applications.
- Hands-on lab skills with oscilloscopes, impedance analyzers, high-voltage probes and similar equipment.
- Scripting skills for data analysis and test automation.
- A track record of leading technical work from concept through working hardware.
Lead Mechanical EngineerSan Francisco, CA · Hybrid
We are seeking a Lead Mechanical Engineer to lead mechanical design across our R&D programs, from high-voltage transformer accessories and components to shielded enclosures and the fixtures and equipment behind our quality detection tools.
What to expect
You will be part of the founding research and development engineering team. We’re looking for creative, hardworking engineers who want to grow fast, take on hard problems and see their work make a real difference. We also believe the best engineering comes from people who have room to think. That means a life with balance, and a team where people look out for each other, share what they know and lift the people around them. If you want to do the most meaningful work of your career with people you’ll be proud to work alongside, we’d love to meet you.
As a lead, you’ll set the technical direction for your discipline and help build and mentor the team around you.
This is a hybrid role, with regular time onsite and opportunities to work from home.
What you’ll do
- Lead mechanical design across our R&D programs, with direct visibility to senior leadership.
- Design high-voltage transformer accessories and components, balancing dielectric clearances, sealing, mechanical loads and manufacturability.
- Design high-voltage interconnects and terminations.
- Design shielded enclosures that protect sensitive electronics, including seams, gaskets, penetrations and grounding.
- Design fixtures and mechanical systems for our quality detection tools.
- Build and test prototypes quickly, working with our FEA engineer to validate designs.
- Lead design reviews, tolerance analysis and drawing release.
- Get designs ready to scale, partnering with our in-house automation and manufacturing team on the handoff to production.
- Build and mentor the mechanical engineering team.
What you bring
- BS or MS in Mechanical Engineering or a related field.
- Experience designing mechanical systems for high-voltage electrical equipment and components.
- Experience designing electromechanical mechanisms with moving parts.
- Experience designing shielded or sealed enclosures, including gaskets, seams and penetrations.
- Experience designing test fixtures and precision mechanical equipment.
- Proficiency with GD&T, tolerance stack-ups, 3D CAD and drawing release.
- Experience with machining, sheet metal, castings, molded insulation and welded fabrication.
- Proven experience taking hardware from concept through prototype and getting it ready for production.
Lead Thermal Design EngineerSan Francisco, CA · Hybrid
We are seeking a Lead Thermal Design Engineer to own the thermal design of our power transformers, from winding hot spots to oil flow and cooling systems, and make sure our equipment runs cooler, lasts longer and carries more load.
What to expect
You will be part of the founding research and development engineering team. We’re looking for creative, hardworking engineers who want to grow fast, take on hard problems and see their work make a real difference. We also believe the best engineering comes from people who have room to think. That means a life with balance, and a team where people look out for each other, share what they know and lift the people around them. If you want to do the most meaningful work of your career with people you’ll be proud to work alongside, we’d love to meet you.
As a lead, you’ll set the technical direction for your discipline and help build and mentor the team around you.
This is a hybrid role, with regular time onsite and opportunities to work from home.
What you’ll do
- Own thermal design for our power transformers, from windings and oil flow to radiators, fans and pumps, with direct visibility to senior leadership.
- Build analytical and CFD models that predict temperature rise and winding hot spots.
- Design cooling systems that let our equipment carry more load and last longer.
- Trade off cooling approaches on performance, cost, size and noise.
- Define thermal requirements and loading capability for new designs.
- Plan thermal tests and correlate models with measured data.
- Build and mentor the thermal engineering team.
What you bring
- BS, MS or PhD in Mechanical Engineering or a related field, with a focus on heat transfer and fluid mechanics.
- Experience leading thermal design of power equipment or other high heat-load hardware.
- Strong fundamentals in conjugate heat transfer and natural and forced convection.
- Experience with CFD and thermal simulation, and with correlating simulations to test data.
- Experience planning and running thermal tests.
- Clear communication and the ability to lead cross-functional decisions.
Magnetics Modeling EngineerSan Francisco, CA · Hybrid
We are seeking a Magnetics Modeling Engineer to turn new transformer concepts into proven designs through electromagnetic modeling and simulation.
What to expect
You will be part of the founding research and development engineering team. We’re looking for creative, hardworking engineers who want to grow fast, take on hard problems and see their work make a real difference. We also believe the best engineering comes from people who have room to think. That means a life with balance, and a team where people look out for each other, share what they know and lift the people around them. If you want to do the most meaningful work of your career with people you’ll be proud to work alongside, we’d love to meet you.
This is a hybrid role, with regular time onsite and opportunities to work from home.
What you’ll do
- Own electromagnetic design for our power transformers, with direct visibility to senior leadership and a path to leading our modeling team.
- Develop electromagnetic models that predict flux, losses, leakage reactance and impedance before hardware exists.
- Explore novel geometries and next-generation materials that could change how transformers are designed.
- Build lightning and switching impulse models of winding voltage distribution to guide insulation design and de-risk impulse testing.
- Calculate short-circuit forces and work with mechanical and FEA engineers to design windings that withstand them.
- Run coupled electromagnetic-thermal analyses with the thermal team to find hot spots and increase capacity.
- Partner with our internal design tools team to cut design iteration from weeks to hours.
What you bring
- BS, MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Physics or a related field.
- Strong fundamentals in electromagnetics.
- Experience with electromagnetic finite element simulation.
- Experience with lightning and switching impulse transient modeling.
- Scripting skills for modeling, automation and data analysis.
- Experience with transformer, inductor or electric machine design.
- Experience validating models against measurements.
Material ScientistSan Francisco, CA · Hybrid
We are seeking a Material Scientist to bring deep polymer expertise to our R&D team, developing the materials that set a new standard for quality and reliability in our high-voltage equipment.
What to expect
You will be part of the founding research and development engineering team. We’re looking for creative, hardworking engineers who want to grow fast, take on hard problems and see their work make a real difference. We also believe the best engineering comes from people who have room to think. That means a life with balance, and a team where people look out for each other, share what they know and lift the people around them. If you want to do the most meaningful work of your career with people you’ll be proud to work alongside, we’d love to meet you.
This is a hybrid role, with regular time onsite and opportunities to work from home.
What you’ll do
- Lead polymer materials development across our R&D programs, with direct visibility to senior leadership.
- Select, formulate and develop polymer materials for high-voltage applications.
- Characterize electrical, thermal and mechanical properties, from dielectric strength to long-term stability.
- Define the aging mechanisms and material limits that guide our life testing.
- Lead failure analysis and root cause investigations.
- Write material specifications and qualify suppliers.
- Work with the electrical team to support the development of our quality detection tools.
What you bring
- MS or PhD in Polymer Science, Materials Science, Chemical Engineering or a related field.
- Deep expertise in polymer chemistry, processing and structure-property relationships.
- Experience with polymers for electrical insulation or other demanding applications.
- Hands-on experience with polymer characterization techniques such as DSC, TGA and dielectric spectroscopy.
- Experience with polymer aging and degradation mechanisms.
- Strong skills in design of experiments and statistical analysis.
- Clear technical writing and communication.
MetallurgistSan Francisco, CA · Hybrid
We are seeking a Metallurgist to help us push the performance of the copper and electrical steel at the heart of our equipment.
What to expect
You will be part of the founding research and development engineering team. We’re looking for creative, hardworking engineers who want to grow fast, take on hard problems and see their work make a real difference. We also believe the best engineering comes from people who have room to think. That means a life with balance, and a team where people look out for each other, share what they know and lift the people around them. If you want to do the most meaningful work of your career with people you’ll be proud to work alongside, we’d love to meet you.
This is a hybrid role, with regular time onsite and opportunities to work from home.
What you’ll do
- Own metals selection and qualification across our R&D programs, with direct visibility to senior leadership.
- Evaluate grain-oriented electrical steel and next-generation core materials to reduce core loss.
- Characterize conductivity, magnetic losses, mechanical properties and microstructure.
- Study how annealing, cutting and mechanical stress affect core loss and copper conductor performance.
- Lead failure analysis and root cause investigations on metal components.
- Write material specifications and qualify suppliers.
- Work with the magnetics team to build accurate material models.
What you bring
- BS, MS or PhD in Metallurgy, Materials Science or a related field.
- Strong background in physical metallurgy.
- Hands-on experience with metallography, SEM/EDS, hardness and tensile testing.
- Experience with electrical steel or copper conductors.
- Experience leading failure analysis.
- Clear technical writing and communication.
Test EngineerSan Francisco, CA · Hybrid
We are seeking a Test Engineer to design and build the test stands that prove out our technology, and run the materials and component tests that turn new ideas into data we can trust.
What to expect
You will be part of the founding research and development engineering team. We’re looking for creative, hardworking engineers who want to grow fast, take on hard problems and see their work make a real difference. We also believe the best engineering comes from people who have room to think. That means a life with balance, and a team where people look out for each other, share what they know and lift the people around them. If you want to do the most meaningful work of your career with people you’ll be proud to work alongside, we’d love to meet you.
This is a hybrid role, with regular time onsite in our lab working hands-on with hardware.
What you’ll do
- Own our R&D test capability, with direct visibility to senior leadership.
- Design test stands, fixtures and data acquisition systems, and build the setups yourself when needed.
- Plan and run tests on material and component samples.
- Design and run accelerated life and reliability tests, and analyze the results to predict service life.
- Automate test execution and data collection.
- Validate our quality detection tools with the electrical team.
- Write test procedures, analyze results and report findings.
- Write safety procedures for the tests you design and guide the work of our lab technicians.
What you bring
- BS in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or a related field.
- Experience designing and building test equipment and fixtures.
- Comfortable building test setups hands-on, including wiring, assembly and basic fabrication.
- Experience with data acquisition, sensors and instrumentation.
- Scripting skills for test automation and data analysis.
- Experience testing materials or components.
- Experience with reliability test design and life data analysis, such as accelerated life testing and Weibull analysis.
- A strong safety mindset and hands-on problem-solving skills.
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