Company Generac Power Systems
Name Firmware Engineer III
Req # 64114
Employment Type Full Time
Shift 1st
Generac Clean Energy is looking for a motivated Firmware Engineer with insatiable curiosity to help create next generation energy storage products. The successful applicant will join a team of highly knowledgeable and collaborative engineers. You will have the opportunity to solve challenging problems that unlock residential PV and energy storage systems at mass scale.
Generac Clean Energy combines the speed and excitement of a technology startup with the resources and market power of an S&P 500 industry leader. Our careers offer boundless opportunity for growth for energetic, mission-driven applicants who seek challenge and impact in a fast-paced culture of teaching, learning.
The position is available in Reno, NV.
- Drive power electronics, communications, and battery design architecture with a firmware focus.
- Lead functional safety architecture and processes including FMEA driven development for adherence and validation to meet UL1998 and related functional safety standards.
- Drive firmware development for performance, scalability, robustness, and tight integration with the hardware.
- Improve team resiliency and capacity through hiring and building internal leadership and technical depth.
- Hands-on hardware bring up, build and execute component validation to deliver robust, functional code.
- Develop, enhance and debug new and existing real-time firmware in C. Deliver high-quality code in a real-time embedded environment.
- BS in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics.
- 15 years of engineering experience with demonstrated expertise in firmware, power electronics, communications, or battery product development.
- Demonstrated delivery of firmware for products at scale and quality.
- Expert knowledge of architecture through low level firmware for battery, communications, and functional safety areas.
- Experience with CAN bus, DBC file management and CAN bus tools like PCAN Explorer, Vector Canalyzer or CANApe is desired
- Demonstrated success implementing and improving firmware development processes.
- Demonstrated success with firmware quality initiatives development (for example unit testing, MISRA, UL1998, FMEA driven firmware design).
- Demonstrated success leading firmware validation development (unit test, smoke tests, automated regression, SIL/HIL approaches).
- Excellent software fundamentals including architectural design, algorithm development, data structures, code modularity, and maintainability
- Experience with test driven development, Experience using unit testing, SIL, or HIL. Our developers participate significantly in firmware testing, so a validation mindset is required.
- Ability to collaborate and communicate complex technical concepts.