Staff Firmware Engineer

Enphase Energy is a global energy technology company and a leading provider of solar, battery, and electric vehicle charging products. Founded in 2006, our innovative microinverter technology revolutionized solar power, making it a safer, more reliable, and scalable energy source. Today, the Enphase Energy System enables users to make, use, save, and sell their own power. Enphase is also one of the most successful and innovative clean energy companies in the world, with more than 80 million products shipped across 160 countries. 

Join our dynamic teams designing and developing next-gen energy technologies and help drive a sustainable future!

Must be available to work on-site at our Bangalore office 5 days per week.

About the role:

As a Staff Firmware Engineer, you will be part of the Product Engineering team, who are responsible for maintaining and improving existing products throughout their lifecycle, including firmware fixes and performance enhancements. Essentially ensuring a product remains functional, meets customer needs by troubleshooting customer issues, and implementing continuous improvement strategies to optimize product performance and ensure products remain compliant with relevant industry regulations and standards.

What you will do:

• Designing and implementing Power Electronics and Embedded firmware for real-time operation and control.
• Simulating new algorithms for autonomous microgrid power flow management.
• Developing unit and system test software.
• Own, Support and maintain the firmware for legacy inverters in the field.
• Power electronics and embedded firmware bug fix and corrective actions implementations.
• Validating algorithms using system simulation tools.
• Working with hardware engineers to test and troubleshoot prototype designs.
• Firmware testing (DVT).
• Passionate in field quality improvement and cost reduction through VAVE (Value Analysis and Value Engineering) through firmware.
• Performance test products and sub-systems
• Assist product compliance engineers to achieve global certifications for our products.
• Specify engineering requirements, create test plans and generate test reports
• Raise the bar for technical excellence, accurate documentation and scientific rigor
• Provide subject matter expertise at an advanced level
• Keen to work in product enhancement and support team for power electronics products

Who you are and what you bring:

• B.E. and 8+ years’ experience outside of university or Masters and 6+ years.

 Candidates must have:

• Expertise in C++, C, and Assembly (8051) for real-time applications.
• Able to understand and implement digital signal processing (DSP) concepts in a microprocessor environment.
• Ability to technically lead the team & mentor junior engineers.
• Familiarity 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 test code and hardware both with and without external test equipment such as oscilloscopes, power meters, etc.
• Familiarity with software development processes. E.g., Agile, Structured, Object Oriented, etc.
• Familiarity with development tools such as GCC, GDB, Eclipse, GNU Make, etc.
• Familiarity with software code management tools such as GIT, Mercurial, etc.
• Ability to carry a design task from concept to implementation.
• Ability to document engineering requirements, document solutions, and test new firmware designs.
• Good to have knowledge on RTOS (FreeRTOS, Zephyr)