Firmware Engineer

Power Electronics/active magnetic bearings (AMB) control

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Salary: $200,000 - $250,000 per year

A bit about us:

Based in Cypress, CA and focus our Engineering efforts on Engineering and Manufacturing cleaner and greener power resources. Our products are designed to both harvest and use energy in the most environmentally safe way possible for our EcoSystem. We service the Oil and Gas as well as the Defense Industries, providing pumps, generators, and TurboExpanders.

Why join us?

• 200-250k Salary!
• Annual Bonuses!
• Flexible Work Schedules!
• 401K Matching!
• Accelerated Career Growth!
• Challenging Problems!

Job Details

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead Embedded Firmware development activities in C/C++ and Assembly languages for active magnetic bearings (AMB) control, permanent magnet motors/generators and power converter control.
• Support and modify existing firmware and develop new firmware for AMB and power electronics for motor drive applications.
• Support internal and external software architecture and operation design reviews.
• Generate documentation related to firmware and interfaces with traceability to customer and firmware certification requirements including but not limited to Software Requirements Specification, Software Design Description, Software Verification and Validation Plan, Software Test Plan, Software User Documentation, and Software Quality Assurance Plan
• Perform hands on work encompassing debugging, troubleshooting, and testing of existing and new firmware.
• Develop test plan, perform validation test and ensure compliance to specification.
• Develop and implement firmware lifecycle control process and documentation.
• Provide timely software support for both in-house testing and customer field service support.
• Work closely with the hardware and controls teams to architect, implement, test and deploy safety critical software on next generation products as well as existing systems

Required Skills, Experience, Education, and Abilities:

• BSc or MSc in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science and having 8 years of industry experience. PhD is plus.
• Strong background of at least 5 years in C/C++ firmware development, preferably for power electronics and/or motor drive applications.
• Skilled in classical and advanced control system theory, including modeling, simulation, stability analysis, control loop shaping, signaling, and processing.
• Proficient with Bare Metal firmware programming.
• Proficient at writing low level device drivers (ADC, PWM, Timers, GPIO, SPI, SCI, UART, CAN, etc.)
• Familiar with Modbus, SPI, RS485 and CAN Bus J1939.
• Able to use and set up test equipment such as oscilloscopes, data loggers / analyzers, software development tools, CANalyzer.
• Proven track record of software requirements management.
• Familiar with software revision control such as Git or SVN.

Desired Skills and Experience

• Specific experience with TI C2000 series, TI Sitara, or NXP MPC series microcontrollers.
• Experience with dual CPU processors such as TI F28379D.
• Experience with aviation and military standards such as SS-473, RTCA DO-178C, DO-254A, MIL-STD-461, ISO 26262 ASIL MISRA.
• Safety Compliance: Ensure firmware and software design adhere to UL/Military/ Aviation safety standard requirements for software in programmable components, aiming for reliable and secure operation of power electronic and motor drive systems
• Experience with Model Based Coding, CANape, INCA, and Hardware in the Loop testing
• Skilled in classical and advanced control system theory, including modeling, simulation, stability analysis, control loop shaping, signaling, and processing.
• Hands on experience of Field Oriented Control, 3-phase power control, and control system design.
• Familiar with flux estimation methods, sensorless and resolver-based controls.
• Demonstrated experience with space vector, sinusoidal, and/or discontinuous PWM schemes.
• Fundamental knowledge of digital, analog and power electronic circuits and electric machines.

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