Senior Hardware Engineer - Product Engineering

Enphase Energy, Inc.; India; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Enphase Energy, a global leader in solar and energy storage tech, seeks a Sr. Engineer, Hardware-Product Engineering to own HW activities for IQ Gateway and related systems.

You will drive New Product Design, fixes, and design improvements, collaborating with FW, Reliability, Quality, Mfg., and Supply Chain to deploy field-ready solutions. Ideal candidates have 5+ years in hardware design, MCU-based HW, RF, and power electronics, with strong lab skills and knowledge of EMI/EMC and safety

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Electronics engineering.
• Minimum 5 years of hardware design experience.
• Hands-on with MCU-based hardware designs and RF/power electronics.

Responsibilities

• Lead hardware product engineering activities including New Product Design, Root Cause Analysis, design verification and validation.
• Coordinate with FW, reliability, quality, manufacturing and supply chain to deploy solutions.
• Write Engineering Requirements, Test Plans and Validation Reports to fill gaps.
• Collaborate with PCB design, compliance and DVT teams for pre- and post-compliance testing.

Skills

Microcontroller HW design

RF Design (LTE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth)

Power Electronics (Converters)

Analogue & Digital Design

Firmware fundamentals

HW/FW/SW co-design

CAD tools for schematic/PCB layout

Bench testing & V&V

EMI/EMC, Safety testing concepts

UL/IEC safety standards familiarity

Lab equipment experience

Modelling & simulation tools

Education

BE/BTech/MTech - Electrical or Electronics Engineering

Tools

LTSpice

TiNA

PSpice

Job description

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!

About the role:

As a Sr.Engineer, Hardware-Product Engineering, the candidate will be responsible for owning the HW Engineering activities of the IQ Gateway, IQ System Controllers, Cellular Connect Devices and IQ Combiners. This includes New Product Design, proposing solutions, Design improvements, Design root cause analysis for mitigating failures, Alternate component qualification and compliance support. Work closely with all cross functional teams like FW, Reliability, Quality, Mfg. and Supply Chain and drive towards solution deployment into the field.

Must be available to work on-site at our Bangalore office5days per week.

What you will doing

• Technically lead activities in Product Engineering which includes New Product Design, Root cause analysis, Design Analysis and recommending solutions, Design verification & validation, functional testing
• Fair idea about FW algorithms required on embedded systems.
• Able to handle various stages of the life cycle of a product with ownership and accountability.
• Work closely with cross functional teams like PCB design team, compliance team, various DVTs team to ensure design meets all requirements. Co-ordinate with the team on pre-compliance, final compliance tests and with reliability team on reliability tests.
• Write Engineering Requirements, Test Plans and Validation Reports to fill the gaps.
• Good verbal and written communication, presentation skills, Team Player

Who you are and what you bring

• BE/BTech/MTech- Electrical or Electronics Engineering a minimum of 5 years’ experience in Hardware New Product Design and design upgrades to meet quality.
• Handson experience in Microcontroller based HW designs, RF Designs like Cellular LTE, Wi-Fi & Bluetooth, Mixed signal processing and Power Electronics design like Converters (AC-DC, DC-DC, SMPS)
• Deep knowledge on Electrical fundamentals, Analog & Digital design, should have basic understanding of firmware
• Experience HW/FW/SW co-design which includes relay controls, Gateway designs and ASIC
• Preferred experience from industries working in Power Electronics products, Energy Storage, Renewables HW, Switchgears or Electric Vehicles.
• Experience in using CAD tools for schematic capture and review PCB Placement and layouts
• Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Practical experience of in-depth bench testing, V&V testing, and debugging of hardware designs
• Understanding and application of EMI-EMC, Safety & Performance Test concepts into design solutions
• Familiaritywith the UL & IEC standards on safety & EMI/EMC –IEC61010, 61000-4, 61326-1 etc.
• Must have Hands-on and familiar with Lab equipment like oscilloscope, Power sources, Electronic Loads etc.
• Familiar withModelling& simulation tools likeLTSpice,TiNA, PSpice etc.