Principal Embedded Software Engineer
Apply NowCompany: Enphase Energy
Location: Austin, TX 78745
Description:
Description
About Enphase:
Enphase Energy is a global energy technology company and leading provider of solar, battery, and electric vehicle charging products. Founded in 2006, Enphase transformed the solar industry with our revolutionary microinverter technology, which turns sunlight into a safe, reliable, resilient, and scalable source of energy to power our lives. Today, the Enphase Energy System helps people make, use, save, and sell their own power. Enphase is also one of the fastest growing and innovative clean energy companies in the world, with approximately 68 million products installed across more than 145 countries.
We are building teams that design, develop, and manufacture next-generation energy technologies and our work environment is fast-paced, fun and full of exciting new projects.
About the role:
Enphase is seeking a Senior Level Embedded Software Engineer to be a member of our world-class, Storage Innovation team in the office of the CTO.
What you will do:
Designing and implementing embedded software for battery system control and management and for microinverter operation and control.
Simulating new algorithms for power control and management.
Developing unit and system test software.
Hands-on bring up and debugging of battery and inverter hardware with embedded firmware
Validating algorithms using system simulation tools.
Working with hardware engineers to test and troubleshoot prototype designs.
Firmware testing
Mentor Junior Engineers
Who you are and What you bring:
MS/MS/PhD Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering or Computer Science
BS and 15+ years / MS and 12+ years / PhD and 8+ Years' experience in a similar (non-academic) role as an embedded software or firmware engineer
Expertise in C++, C, and Assembly for real-time applications
Significant experience with battery management and related algorithms, including protection, cell balancing, state of charge estimation, and state of health estimation
Expertise in both bare metal and small real-time operating systems - designing and architecting firmware using both state-machines and RTOS threads for time-critical applications
Familiarity with designing power-efficient code - using state-machines and threads to maximum time when a processor is asleep
Able to understand and implement digital signal processing (DSP) concepts in a microcontroller environment
Familiarity with ARM Cortex-M4/7 architectures
Familiarity with evaluating CPU versus hardware processing requirements and trade-offs for cost-effective designs
Ability to troubleshoot firmware related issues within complex systems
Ability to test code and hardware both with and without external test equipment such as oscilloscopes, power meters, etc.
Familiarity with software development processes. E.g. Agile, Structured, Object Oriented, etc.
Familiarity with development tools such as GCC, GDB, Eclipse, GNU Make, etc.
Familiarity with software code management tools such as GIT, Mercurial, etc.
Familiarity with unit test frameworks such as, cmock, CPPUTEST, etc.
Ability to carry a design task from concept to implementation
Ability to document engineering requirements, document solutions, and test new firmware designs
Familiarity with developing functional safety firmware and related standards such as UL1998
Additional Experience:
STM32 Cortex-M family development experience
Zephyr or FreeRTOS development experience
AWS IoT experience
Desktop and embedded Linux experience
In depth knowledge of relevant worldwide standards such as UL1973, IEC 61508, ISO 26262, IEC62133 and IEC62619
Knowledge in worldwide electrical advanced grid functions and fault conditions
The base pay range for this position is $130,000 to $183,000 per year. This salary range may be modified in the future. The successful candidate's starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, education or training, work location, and market conditions. This position is also eligible for bonus, equity, and benefits.
About Enphase:
Enphase Energy is a global energy technology company and leading provider of solar, battery, and electric vehicle charging products. Founded in 2006, Enphase transformed the solar industry with our revolutionary microinverter technology, which turns sunlight into a safe, reliable, resilient, and scalable source of energy to power our lives. Today, the Enphase Energy System helps people make, use, save, and sell their own power. Enphase is also one of the fastest growing and innovative clean energy companies in the world, with approximately 68 million products installed across more than 145 countries.
We are building teams that design, develop, and manufacture next-generation energy technologies and our work environment is fast-paced, fun and full of exciting new projects.
About the role:
Enphase is seeking a Senior Level Embedded Software Engineer to be a member of our world-class, Storage Innovation team in the office of the CTO.
What you will do:
Designing and implementing embedded software for battery system control and management and for microinverter operation and control.
Simulating new algorithms for power control and management.
Developing unit and system test software.
Hands-on bring up and debugging of battery and inverter hardware with embedded firmware
Validating algorithms using system simulation tools.
Working with hardware engineers to test and troubleshoot prototype designs.
Firmware testing
Mentor Junior Engineers
Who you are and What you bring:
MS/MS/PhD Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering or Computer Science
BS and 15+ years / MS and 12+ years / PhD and 8+ Years' experience in a similar (non-academic) role as an embedded software or firmware engineer
Expertise in C++, C, and Assembly for real-time applications
Significant experience with battery management and related algorithms, including protection, cell balancing, state of charge estimation, and state of health estimation
Expertise in both bare metal and small real-time operating systems - designing and architecting firmware using both state-machines and RTOS threads for time-critical applications
Familiarity with designing power-efficient code - using state-machines and threads to maximum time when a processor is asleep
Able to understand and implement digital signal processing (DSP) concepts in a microcontroller environment
Familiarity with ARM Cortex-M4/7 architectures
Familiarity with evaluating CPU versus hardware processing requirements and trade-offs for cost-effective designs
Ability to troubleshoot firmware related issues within complex systems
Ability to test code and hardware both with and without external test equipment such as oscilloscopes, power meters, etc.
Familiarity with software development processes. E.g. Agile, Structured, Object Oriented, etc.
Familiarity with development tools such as GCC, GDB, Eclipse, GNU Make, etc.
Familiarity with software code management tools such as GIT, Mercurial, etc.
Familiarity with unit test frameworks such as, cmock, CPPUTEST, etc.
Ability to carry a design task from concept to implementation
Ability to document engineering requirements, document solutions, and test new firmware designs
Familiarity with developing functional safety firmware and related standards such as UL1998
Additional Experience:
STM32 Cortex-M family development experience
Zephyr or FreeRTOS development experience
AWS IoT experience
Desktop and embedded Linux experience
In depth knowledge of relevant worldwide standards such as UL1973, IEC 61508, ISO 26262, IEC62133 and IEC62619
Knowledge in worldwide electrical advanced grid functions and fault conditions
The base pay range for this position is $130,000 to $183,000 per year. This salary range may be modified in the future. The successful candidate's starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, education or training, work location, and market conditions. This position is also eligible for bonus, equity, and benefits.