Senior Engineer, System DVT Test
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 System DVT Engineer, the successful candidate will be part of the systems DVT team that is responsible for integrating and testing the systems behaviour for Enphase’s energy solutions.
What you will do
- Oversee the DVT execution plan and provide technical direction to the DVT Engineers.
- Conduct Design verification test (DVT) to assure full coverage of Ensemble grid agnostic system design that includes micro inverter, AC batteries, Smart Switch and IOT Gateway with Could and mobile app support.
- Troubleshoot the system failures encountered during DVT and analyze root cause for the failures.
- Work with development team to aid fixing the failures encountered during system DVT.
- Developing automation scripts using Python that controls lab instruments like Grid simulator, Power Analyser, Oscilloscope, SAS, Programmable loads and enphase product through CAN protocal.
- Responsible for documentation of test plan and test reports
- Read system DVT plan and test cases as well as system documents to aid troubleshooting during system DVT.
- Database management for test results, test data analysis either manually or using python-based data analysis script.
Who you are and what you bring
- BE/BTech or ME/MTech in Electrical/Electronics engineering with 12+ years of experience in Power Electronics or power system design verification test.
- Hands-on experience with electrical and electronics systems.
- Good understanding of basic electrical engineering concepts, including circuit theory and Electrical system.
- Hands-on experince in Python based automation framework including lab instruments
- Experience on TCP/IP, Serial ( RS485, USB) and CAN communciation protocal scripts.
- Good communication skills.
- Analytical, decision making and leadership skills
- Ability to work effectively within a team.
- Desire and passion to change the world.
- Understanding of energy storage, micro grid and renewable energy systems
- 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.
- Electrical system automation using Python scritps
- Communication protocal (TCP/IP, RS485, USB and CAN)