Senior Engineer II, Control Firmware Engineer

Schneider Electric; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Schneider Electric in Bengaluru seeks a control firmware engineer with 10-14 years of embedded power control expertise. You will architect control firmware for PFC, DC/DC, chargers, and inverters, and lead board bring-up and driver development.

Responsibilities include design reviews, unit testing, and modeling/simulation in Matlab/Simulink. The role requires strong knowledge in power electronics and FPGA/RTOS experience, with a focus on reliability and safety in grid-tied and storage

Qualifications

• Proficient in embedded C/C++ for 32-bit controllers/DSPs.
• Experience with RTOS environments and real-time interrupt handling.
• Strong knowledge of control system design and modeling/simulation in Matlab/Simulink.

Responsibilities

• Architect control firmware for PFC, DC/DC, chargers and inverters.
• Lead board bring-up and device-driver development (CAN/I2C/SPI).
• Mentor teammates, review designs and perform unit testing.

Skills

C/C++

Python

RTOS

Matlab/Simulink

Power Electronics

FPGA

CAN/I2C/SPI

Board bring-up

Job description

We are looking for a control firmware engineer with 10 to 14 years of experience in embedded power control firmware development with expertise in

Control Engineering and Power Electronics, for the application of Grid-tied Solar Inverter, Online UPS and Li-ion based Storage solutions.

Essential Functions:

• Architecting embedded control strategy, formulating specifications and implementation control firmware for PFC, Chargers, DC/DC and inverter etc.
• Board bring up experience, Device driver development for CAN, I2C, SPI etc..
• Participating and leading the specification, design reviews and executing unit tests
• Proves design concepts through a combination of computer simulation and physical laboratory implementation/testing.
• Develops automated test cases for Hardware-In-Loop modeling/Testing. (Preferable)
• Develops engineering models and test plans to verify electrical, environmental, and functional compliance of the design to its specification
• Remains abreast of the latest technology in Digital control/Controllers
• 5+ years proven experience developing Power Electronics products

Knowledge and Skills (PFC, Chargers, DC/DC and inverter etc..):

• Programming experience in Assembly/C/Python/C++ for 32 bit controllers/DSP’s
• Programming experience in RTOS environments like UC OS-II or other platforms (Preferable)
• Experience in developing control systems for Power inverters/Converters.
• Knowledge in Control system design/ Modeling/simulation in Matlab/ Simulink or other similar tools Writing lean code for real time interrupt driven applications (Preferable)
• Proficient in understanding the schematics and debugging hardware issues
• Knowledge in Python scripting language is preferable
• Understanding on Safety regulatory requirements in power converters for use with PV modules,

Grid-tie inverter systems is preferable.

• Experience is FPGA programming and Simulation techniques is preferable.

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