Senior Engineer, Embedded Firmware Design Enphase Energy
Austin, TX

Job Description

This position is within our Software 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.

Responsibilities include:

* Design and implement embedded software for real time operation and control.
* Simulating new algorithms for autonomous micro grid power flow management
* Develop unit and system test software
* Validate algorithms using system simulation tools
* Working with hardware engineers to test and troubleshoot prototype designs.

Skills and Qualifications

* BSCE/BSEE required.
* 5+ yrs experience developing high volume production firmware
* Expertise in C++, C, and Assembly for real time applications with exposure to interrupt service and drivers in embedded software control highly desirable.
* Experience in developing, testing, and debugging bank switched 8051 assembly projects highly desired.
* Able to understand and implement digital signal processing (DSP) concepts in a microprocessor environment.
* Familiar 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 unit test code and hardware both with and without external test equipment such as oscilloscope, power meter, etc.
* Familiarity with software development processes. E.g. Agile, Structured, Object Oriented, etc.
* Familiarity with development tools such as Keil, GCC, GDB, Eclipse, GNU Make, etc.
* Familiarity with software code management tools such as GIT, Mercurial, etc.
* Able to carry a design task from concept to implementation.
* Ability to document engineering requirements, document solutions, and test new firmware designs.
* Experience with power electronic systems would be an advantage.
* Experience with solar inverters would be an advantage.
* Familiarity with Python for test automation would be an advantage.
* Experience with 32-bit ARM processors and 8-bit 8051processors would be an advantage.
* Experience with UL1741, IEEE1547 and other solar related standards would be a definite advantage.