Automotive Embedded Power Electronics Software Engineer

Jobtailor; Milford (MO); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor seeks an embedded C/C++ software engineer to develop and maintain firmware for automotive power-electronics and energy-transfer systems. You will design software for charging, regulation, and fault handling, translating requirements into robust, testable designs and working with cross-functional teams including hardware, validation, and suppliers.

The role involves MISRA-aligned development, CAN interfaces, unit/integration/HIL testing, and contribution to EV charging features in a

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in software engineering, computer science, electrical/controls engineering, or related field.
• 2+ years in automotive embedded software development or power-electronics controls.
• Hands-on production-oriented C/C++ software development experience.
• Understanding real-time embedded design, interfaces, state machines, diagnostics, and HW/SW integration.
• Experience translating requirements into design, implementation, and verification activities.
• Experience with debugging, integration, root-cause analysis, and automated/bench testing.
• Ability to collaborate across software, systems, controls, hardware, validation, and other cross-functional teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, analytical ability, and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain embedded C/C++ software for automotive power-electronics and energy-transfer applications.
• Design software for AC/DC charging, DC/DC conversion, voltage/current regulation, power-flow control, state machines, diagnostics, protection, and fault handling.
• Translate system requirements into maintainable and testable software designs and implementations.
• Collaborate with software architects, system engineers, SSLEs, hardware teams, calibration, validation, and suppliers.
• Support software architecture, interface definition, feature decomposition, and requirements traceability.
• Develop and review software with MISRA-aligned practices where applicable.
• Use CAN and other vehicle communications for interfaces, diagnostics, and feature integration.
• Perform unit, integration, HIL, system, and vehicle testing; investigate failures and root causes.
• Support automated build, test and CI workflows.
• Apply behavior-driven and test-driven development with Given/When/Then criteria.
• Participate in design/code reviews and process improvement.
• Contribute to EV charging and bidirectional energy-transfer features.

Skills

Embedded C/C++ development

Real-time embedded design

Software debugging/testing

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering/CS/EE

Tools

CAN Communication

Hardware-in-the-Loop

Continuous Integration

Behavior-Driven Development

Test-Driven Development

Job description

Jobtailor seeks an embedded C/C++ software engineer to develop and maintain firmware for automotive power-electronics and energy-transfer systems. You will design software for charging, regulation, and fault handling, translating requirements into robust, testable designs and working with cross-functional teams including hardware, validation, and suppliers.

The role involves MISRA-aligned development, CAN interfaces, unit/integration/HIL testing, and contribution to EV charging features in a