Embedded Firmware Design Engineers Wanted!
Design and implement embedded software for real time operation and control.
Summary about this job
Engineering - Software
Company: Enphase Energy
Location: Canterbury
Work type: Full Time
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Phone: +64-3-495-1779
Fax: +64-7-853-7675
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Detail information about job Embedded Firmware Design Engineers Wanted!. Terms and conditions vacancy
- Two positions available - entry level and experienced
- World class R&D facility
- Fantastic team environment
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 fast-paced, fun, and full of exciting new projects.
Our microinverters control the flow of power from millions of solar panels and counting. As distributed renewable energy resources proliferate, our microinverters will need more advanced high-speed controls in order to manage the voltage and frequency of the next generation smart grids.
These positions are 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.
Qualifications:
Entry Level Engineer: recent graduate with BE/BSc required, ME/MSc, internship, and/or 1+ year of experience is highly desirable.
Experienced Engineer: BE/BSc required, ME/MSc, and/or 5+ years of experience is highly desirable.
Skills required for both roles;
- Expertise in C++, C, and Assembly for real time applications with exposure to interrupt service and drivers in embedded software control highly desirable.
- Able to understand and implement digital signal processing (DSP) concepts in a microprocessor environment.
- Familiar with evaluating CPU versus hardware processing requirements and tradeoffs 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 oscilloscope, power meter, 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.
- 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.
No relocation allowance available, must hold current New Zealand Work Visa (no sponsorship available)