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As a Lead Firmware Engineer, you will play a key role in the design, development, and deployment of embedded firmware for Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) systems. You will collaborate with global engineering teams to drive innovation, ensure product quality, and deliver robust technical solutions for power electronics applications. This role also requires strong system engineering and requirement management capabilities to ensure alignment between product architecture and customer needs.
Key Responsibilities:
• Lead global embedded firmware development for UPS platforms from design → implementation → verification → release, working closely with cross-functional teams.
• Own the firmware technical direction, architecture and subsystem requirements
• Drive global alignment and collaboration: define global development priorities/targets (short- and long-term) and communicate status, risks, and issues to stakeholders
• Own the firmware roadmap and backlog, including maintaining the global sustaining backlog and ensuring effective intake/triage and prioritization
• Plan and execute quarterly releases (scope, schedule, readiness) in partnership with PM/EM and relevant stakeholders.
• Provide execution leadership: day-to-day prioritization and cross-functional coordination, including field issue escalation and stakeholder management.
• Own release governance and enforce quality: defect triage, risk management, technical gatekeeping, and test plan approval / release readiness.
• Serve as a technical leader across the organization: lead design reviews, mentor engineers, and make timely technical trade-offs with clear decision authority.
• Own firmware development processes/methodologies, including sustaining firmware SOPs, and lead cybersecurity within firmware scope to support compliance and product integrity.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field
- 8+ years of embedded firmware development experience
Required skills:
- Proven experience in control systems for power electronics.
- Strong proficiency in C/C++ programming, especially for digital signal processors (fixed and floating point).
- Experience in Real-Time Operating Systems (e.g., FreeRTOS).
- Solid understanding of software development processes and tools, including version control systems (e.g., Git).
- Expertise in state machine design and closed-loop control systems.
- Familiarity with communication protocols such as CAN, SPI, Modbus, REST.
- Proficient with lab equipment such as oscilloscopes and multimeters.
- Comfortable working in high-voltage lab environments with strong safety awareness.
- Ability to perform as a technical leader, mentoring others, making technical decisions and owning the technical direction
- Solid understanding of system engineering principles, including interface definition, system integration, and verification.
Preferred skills:
- Experience with MATLAB/Simulink or equivalent simulation tools.
- Ability to read schematics and interpret electronic system behavior.
- Ability to analyze and troubleshoot analog/digital circuitry; hands-on experience with PCB bring-up.
- Skilled in interpreting datasheets, including timing and interface specifications.
- Experience creating firmware architecture documentation using UML or similar techniques.
- Knowledge of unit testing, test-driven development, and Hardware-In-the-Loop (HIL) testing.
- Experience with embedded Linux
- Experience with PLD/FPGA programming using hardware description languages (e.g., VHDL, Verilog).
- Exposure to Agile development methodologies, such as Scrum.
- Experience with Assembly language programming.
- Understanding of electrical safety standards and best practices.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field
- 8+ years of embedded firmware development experience
- Experience with control systems for power electronics
- Strong proficiency in C/C++ programming for digital signal processors, including fixed- and floating-point systems
- Experience with real-time operating systems such as FreeRTOS
- Understanding of software development processes and version control systems such as Git
- Expertise in state machine design and closed-loop control systems
- Familiarity with CAN, SPI, Modbus, and REST communication protocols
- Proficiency with oscilloscopes, multimeters, and other laboratory equipment
- Ability to work in high-voltage laboratory environments with strong safety awareness
- Technical leadership, mentoring, technical decision-making, and ownership of technical direction
- Understanding of system engineering principles, interface definition, system integration, and verification
- Experience with MATLAB/Simulink or equivalent simulation tools
- Ability to read schematics and interpret electronic system behavior
- Ability to analyze and troubleshoot analog and digital circuitry, including PCB bring-up
- Experience interpreting datasheets, timing specifications, and interface specifications
- Experience creating firmware architecture documentation using UML or similar techniques
- Knowledge of unit testing, test-driven development, and Hardware-In-the-Loop testing
- Experience with embedded Linux
- Experience with PLD/FPGA programming using VHDL, Verilog, or similar hardware description languages
- Exposure to Agile methodologies such as Scrum
- Experience with Assembly language programming
- Understanding of electrical safety standards and best practices
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