Staff Firmware Engineer — Embedded Inverter Controls

Enphase Energy, Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 151,000; Full time

Job summary

Enphase Energy, Inc. in Austin, TX is seeking a Staff Firmware Engineer to join the Modeling and Controls team. You will develop, integrate, and validate inverter control firmware at the SST platform core, solving power-conversion challenges and collaborating with power electronics and firmware engineers.

You will design firmware in C/C++, perform real-time testing, build CI/CD pipelines, and assist with hardware bring-up on inverter prototypes, influencing future data center power solutions.

Qualifications

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
• Experience as an embedded software or firmware engineer with 8+ years (MS 6+, PhD 3+).
• Expert-level C and C++ proficiency including memory management and bootloader concepts.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement firmware in C/C++ for real-time operation.
• Validate firmware via simulations, hardware-in-the-loop, and prototypes.
• Bench test to ensure functionality and performance.

Skills

Embedded software

C/C++

RTOS

ARM Cortex‑M

Debugger tools

Multithreading

Git

Python scripts

CI/CD

AI-assisted tools

Education

BS in CS/CE/EE or related

MS or PhD preferred

Tools

GCC

CMake

GNU Make

Python

J-Link

Bitbucket Pipelines

Docker

Job description

Enphase Energy, Inc. in Austin, TX is seeking a Staff Firmware Engineer to join the Modeling and Controls team. You will develop, integrate, and validate inverter control firmware at the SST platform core, solving power-conversion challenges and collaborating with power electronics and firmware engineers.

You will design firmware in C/C++, perform real-time testing, build CI/CD pipelines, and assist with hardware bring-up on inverter prototypes, influencing future data center power solutions.