Sr.Staff Engineer, System Engineering

Engineering Bangalore, India


Description

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 are designing, developing, and manufacturing next-generation energy technologies and our work environment is fast-paced, fun and full of exciting new projects.

If you are passionate about advancing a more sustainable future, this is the perfect time to join Enphase!

 

About the role

As a Sr. Staff Systems Engineer, the successful candidate will be part of the systems engineering team that is responsible for defining, integrating, and testing the systems behaviour for Enphase’s energy management solution. Enphase’s energy management system consists of our own Solar Inverters, Lithium Ion based energy storage, Homeowner application/monitoring web and Mobile tools, Mobile commissioning tool.

 

What you will be doing 

  • Energy Management system design and development, design verification, debugging and troubleshooting the design issues, project execution, releasing the design through Alpha, Beta and then to the Market.
  • Energy management system architecture, modelling and simulating the different sub systems of Enphase’s energy management system.
  • Derive system design requirements from Marketing requirement documents.
  • Perform grid code compliance studies (Steady state, transients, power quality) for grid tied and grid agnostic systems.
  • Perform Failure Analysis, troubleshoot and identify the root cause of complex system level issues with no supervision.
  • Guide commissioning tool development.
  • Reproduce Field failures in the lab for identifying the root cause, work with cross functional team to identify right solutions to the issue.
  • Identify continuous improvements in the design to improve customer experience and reliability of the system
  • Collaboratively work with all stakeholders to design and develop HW, FW and SW for the Energy storage system.
  • Review HW, FW, Mechanical, SW design of Energy storage system products.
  • Mentor and train the Junior Engineers in the team.

Who you are and what you bring 

  • ME/MTech or PhD in electrical engineering with 10+ years of experience in Power Electronics or power system design.
  • Hands-on experience with electrical and electronics systems.
  • Good understanding of basic electrical engineering concepts, including circuit theory and power systems
  • Excellent communication skills.
  • Analytical, decision making and leadership skills.
  • Ability to work effectively and collaboratively with cross functional teams.
  • Desire and passion to change the world.
  • Familiar with energy storage, microgrid and renewable energy systems
  • Experience in Modelling and simulation of Power Electronics or power system components.
  • Experience in MATLAB Simulink modelling, integration, and debug skills.
  • Experience in Frequency Domain analysis, such as bode, Nyquist Plots and Time domain analysis.
  • Good in understanding and analysing the complex controls algorithms, also Root cause analysis for unstable systems.
  • Experience in Inverter, Power Electronic circuits design.
  • Hands on experience with wired and wireless communication protocols
  • Experience in Inverter, UPS, Power Electronic circuits design and troubleshooting.
  • Hands-on Experience in handling the lab electronic equipment.
  • Knowledge in Lithium Ion based Energy storage systems, Battery management system.
  • Experience in grid tied inverter validation and advance grid profile functions.