Sr. Embedded FW Engineer (Contract)
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 is seeking Embedded Firmware Engineers to join our engineering and technology teams. These engineers will be responsible for firmware development for Enphase Ensemble series of energy generation and storage products. This engineer will create intellectual property and demonstrate it with prototype designs. This engineer will transition work from conception to engineering to production, while collaborating with teams in California, Texas, India, and New Zealand.
This position is within our Firmware Engineering group, where you will work with a small team to develop fully functional prototypes to demonstrate new advanced operation and control for autonomous grid connection, management and regulation. You will be working in a multi-site team and expected to interface across multiple functions.
What you will be doing:
- Design and implement embedded firmware on an RTOS or bare-metal, for the Enpower™ smart switch and a new combiner product in the Ensemble™ eco-system.
- Work with the marketing and hardware teams to specify the requirements of new products.
- Design and implement algorithms and state machines for the smart switch (to select power sources) or the load controller (to manage loads).
- Ability to carry a design task from concept to implementation.
- Working with cross functional teams to test and troubleshoot issues.
- Self-motivated individual with the ability to work under minimal supervision
Who you are and what you bring:
- BE/BTech/MS/MTech in electrical engineering, electronics and communication, Instrumentation, computer engineering, or computer science
- Minimum 3 to 8 years of hands-on experience in firmware development and debugging in ARM based microcontrollers.
- Good understanding of C/C++ programming, RTOS concepts and microcontroller internals required.
- Experience in working on large embedded systems with communication interfaces like CAN, SPI, I2C, UART desired.
- Familiarity with functional safety analysis, or control theory (such as PLLs, PID, distributed control, stability analysis) desired.
- Familiarity with development tools such as Keil, GCC, GDB, Eclipse, GNU Make, etc desired.
- Familiarity with git, Jira and Confluence desired.
- Good written and verbal communication skills required.
- Basic knowledge of Solar, energy storage, and microgrid products desired.