Sr Staff Hardware Engineer

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

Enphase Energy is the fastest growing inverter company in the world.  By combining the power of solar energy and the proven advantages of communications technology, Enphase Energy makes solar power systems productive, reliable, smart and safe increasing the energy harvest of solar panels by up to 25 percent. Our microinverter system is profoundly changing the way solar systems function, and as a result, changing the solar industry itself. As we continue our exciting growth, we are building teams with highly talented individual contributors and leaders who design, develop, and manufacture next generation solar technologies.  Our work environment is fastpaced, fun, and full of exciting new projects.

What you will be doing

 

  • Develop new products and variants through the product lifecycle.
  • Work in cross-functional teams of hardware, firmware, test automation and mechanical engineers.
  • Specify, design, verify and debug complex circuits for our inverters.
  • Performance test products and sub-systems
  • Design support for cost reduction proposals, Failure root-cause analysis and alternative part qualification.
  • Assist product compliance engineers to achieve global certifications for our products.
  • Specify engineering requirements, create test plans, and generate test reports.
  • Provide technical mentoring to manufacturing and field application engineers.
  • Mentor junior engineers and supervise lab work.
  • Raise the bar for technical excellence, accurate documentation, and scientific rigor.
  • Provide subject matter expertise at an advanced level.

 

Who you are and what you bring

 

  • B.E. and 12+ years’ experience outside of university or
  • Masters and 10+ years. 
  • Developing electronic products from the concept stage to market launch in a commercial environment.
  • Extensive knowledge of circuit schematic, PCB layout and simulation tools
  • Practical experience of in-depth bench testing, V&V testing, and debugging of hardware designs.
  • Strong Troubleshooting and problem-solving skillset.
  • Some experience of using Python, Embedded software development, and working in a Test Automation environment.
  • Power Electronics circuits
  • End to end electronics design development for high-volume manufacturing.
  • End to end electronics design development in regulated industry.
  • Power supply and inverter topologies
  • Field Quality Improvement and Cost reduction through VAVE.