We hire people who would have built this anyway.
We design and operate measurement systems for the electricity grid. We are based in Lagos and Abuja. We are looking for engineers, scientists, and operators who recognize this work as the work they were already trying to do.
THE WORK
The grid is unreliable. So is the work that keeps it honest.
We build hardware that survives a Lagos summer, firmware that updates over an LTE link that disappears for an hour, and software that turns a stream of voltage samples into something an operations director can act on at three in the morning.
The technical surface ranges from analog signal conditioning at the meter, through embedded networking and time-series storage, up to dashboards that have to be readable on a phone, in sunlight, by someone whose generator just shut down.
Most of our customers are utilities, distribution companies, mini-grid operators, and industrial complexes across West Africa. They are not the kind of customer that forgives a bad week. They are also the kind of customer who buys software that works.
Pick work by its consequences
We choose problems whose answers matter to someone who is not us. Novelty is a tiebreaker, not a starting point. Most of what is worth building is unfashionable on the day you start it.
Ship in places with consequences
We deploy in environments where the grid is unreliable, the supply chain is contested, and the customer feels the failure within the hour. The product gets honest fast, or it does not survive.
Measurement, not opinion
We resolve technical disagreements by writing the test and reading the data. The answer is in the meter, the log, the trace, the regression. Anyone in the company can pull rank on bad data.
Long horizons
Hardware certification takes nine months. Customer trust takes years. We hire people who can hold a thread for that long without losing the plot, and who notice when a quarter-deep idea is being asked to do a year-deep job.
The job is the perk
We pay competitively for the market we work in, and we resource the work properly. We do not run the kind of company that confuses ping pong tables with reasons to stay.
OPEN ROLES
No openings right now.
We are not actively hiring against a posted role at the moment. If your work would obviously belong here, write to us anyway.
There are no openings posted right now. We still read every speculative application — if your work would obviously belong here, send it through.
careers@electra.systemsA laundry list of perks
Most of what makes a company good to work at is invisible from the outside, and impossible to copy from a Notion template.
A four-day workweek
We work hard, on purpose, and we are honest about it during the interview rather than after the offer.
The newest tools because they are new
We use the boring stack on purpose. The interesting work is upstream of the framework choice.
Apply.
Send a CV and a paragraph on what you would want to work on at Electra and why. If you have one piece of work you are proud of, link it. We read every application and reply within two weeks.
careers@electra.systems- →A CV (PDF, no template restrictions)
- →A paragraph on what you want to work on at Electra
- →One piece of work you are proud of, with a sentence on why
- →The role title in the subject line, if applying for a posted role