Senior Embedded Firmware Engineer – Power Electronics

We empower smarter business operations by connecting equipment, software, and services to protect, control and optimize assets within electrical infrastructures. The business provides customers, across various industries, with end-to-end product and service solutions ensuring the reliability and protection of their electrical infrastructure. We provide the latest industry insights and technology to develop solutions needed to meet customers evolving challenges, including innovative critical power solutions designed for high reliability and performance. Our culture is one of quality and operational excellence fueled and supported by talented people, tools and processes, and expertise.

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Senior Embedded Firmware Engineer Power Electronics

Job Overview

The Senior Embedded Firmware Engineer will be responsible for executing projects and initiatives on AC-DC Rectifier and DC-DC converter products. These projects will include New Product Introduction, Direct Material Productivity, resolving customer issues, and sustaining engineering of existing products. The Embedded Firmware Engineer will work with systems engineering and other technology functions to design, evaluate, code, integrate, and validate firmware for smart electrical protection systems.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Embedded Firmware Engineer, you will:

• Design and develop embedded firmware on a Digital Signal Processor (DSP) in C language for real-time control of single and three phase power factor correction (PFC), phase shifted full bridge, DC/DC and LLC resonant power converter topologies.
• Model and implement closed loop digital control (PI, PID, PR, etc.) for same. Assembly language as required for critical speed fault detection and protection.
• Design and develop inter-processor communication protocols and poll/response serial protocols.
• Perform lab-setting debug on functional high power / high voltage circuits.
• Adhere to coding standards and software engineering best practices including code maintenance in common code revision control system, such as CVS, Azure or Git.
• Analyze results and present findings at technical design reviews to ensure design robustness, efficiency, future maintainability and supportability.
• Work with the power electronics hardware team on optimizing/ debugging the product designs.
• Support the global development team by ensuring that firmware maintains compatibility with other systems/products.
• Assure proper documentation of technical data generated for the assigned projects and/or tasks consistent with engineering policies and procedures.
• Demonstrate competency in an Integrated Development Environment (Visual Studio, Eclipse).

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering or Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from an accredited college or university
• Minimum experience of 3 years as an Embedded Firmware Engineer

Desired Characteristics

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in building real-time embedded systems using object-oriented programming in C and C# language
• Master of Science in Electrical Engineering or in Computer Science
• Have experience with Freescale-NXP, Microchip or Texas Instruments Microcontrollers / DSP
• Familiarity with communication protocols (I2C, SPI, ModBus, CANbus)
• Familiarity with Secure Development Lifecycle and Agile Development
• Understanding of Data Acquisition and Digital Signal Processing theory
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to think creatively
• Strong oral and written communication skills; strong interpersonal and leadership skills
• Ability to drive projects to completion for production

About Us

We are a customer-first provider of innovative critical power solutions. Our product portfolio is designed for high reliability and performance, and our services team is a trusted partner with exceptional domain expertise backed by a proven track record.

Our customers rely on us to provide the latest industry insights and technology, to develop solutions needed to meet their evolving challenges.

We are looking for passionate and talented people who are interested in helping our customers realize the full potential of 5G, support expansive data center demands, and power Industry 4.0.

Our culture is one that we have fostered over many years; one of quality and operational excellence which is fueled and supported by our talented people, tools and processes, and our know how. Our customers value and recognize these attributes and because of it, have maintained deep and long-standing relationships with us.

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