Staff Hardware Design Engineer

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

The Enphase System Control Innovation (SCI) team in the office of the CTO is responsible for defining, prototyping, and supporting the next generation system control solutions for Enphase products. The team is an integrated, multi-disciplinary group that is fast-moving and looking for motivated individuals that can contribute and collaborate closely with the team to deliver innovative solutions. As a member of the SCI team, you will solve some of the most exciting problems in the distributed energy space and help shape the direction of our products.

The Enphase SCI team is seeking a Staff Hardware Design Engineer to develop, integrate, and validate electronic hardware for next generation energy system control products and improve current designs.

What you will do

• Create innovative embedded and power hardware integration designs to support next generation energy system products
• Specification, design, schematic capture, layout, prototyping, and debug of complex circuits, PCBs, electromechanical components, and electrical assemblies, including high-speed digital processing and communications, sensors, relays, power protection, and power conditioning subsystems
• Hands-on bring up and performance characterization of hardware circuits, PCBs, and energy system hardware (relays, power meters, power converters, communications devices, etc.)
• Apply simulation, hardware-in-the-loop testing, and prototype testing to ensure designs meet functionality and performance requirements
• Support manufacturing of electronic design hardware, electrical assemblies, and PCBAs for prototype products
• Optimize product solutions with firmware/hardware control co-design
• Work with a multi-disciplinary team to test and troubleshoot prototype designs
• Mentor junior staff

Who you are and What you bring

• BS/MS/PhD Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, or closely related discipline
• Job title and position level will be determined upon the candidate's experience.
• Minimum experience: BS and 5+ years / MS and 3+ years / PhD with electronics design experience for a Senior Engineer
• BS and 8+ years / MS and 6+ years / PhD and 3+ years electronics design experience for a Staff Engineer
• Candidates with greater levels of experience may be considered and are encouraged to apply
• Strong digital, mixed-signal, discrete, and embedded hardware design skills with commercial product experience
• Experience integrating complex circuits, embedded hardware, power electronics, and/or power components in commercial products
• Proficiency with one or more commercial schematic capture tools such as OrCAD Capture
• Experience laying out PCBA subsections and/or full PCBAs using layout tools such as Cadence Allegro
• Hands-on experience building and testing electronics and electromechanical assemblies
• Expertise with developing solutions that consider computational performance, cost, power dissipation, thermal management, electromagnetic compatibility, reliability, and manufacturability
• Ability to troubleshoot hardware-related issues within complex systems and drive solutions
• Proficiency with lab equipment including power meters, electronic loads, power supplies, oscilloscopes, etc.
• Ability to take ownership of development tasks and drive them to completion in a timely manner and with high quality to support team success

Additional Desired Skills

• High-volume energy system product development experience
• Experience with high voltage and high current circuits, PCBs, and components
• Familiarity with power electronics circuits/designs and devices
• Experience using OrCAD for schematic capture and Cadence Allegro for PCB layout
• Proficiency with devices, interfaces, and protocols for industrial communications such as Controller Area Network (CAN), IEC61850, TCP/IP, RS-485, etc.
• Familiarity with power system integration, installation, and safety codes and standards such as UL 1741, IEEE 1547, UL 3010, and NFPA 70 (NEC)
• Familiarity with power hardware component safety and compliance standards such as UL 508, IEC/UL 61810-1, UL 2808, UL 489, UL 1077, IEC/UL 61058-1, etc.

Travel

Occasional travel domestically

Work location

Hybrid position (at least 3 days in the office per week) based in Austin, TX

The base pay range for this position is $100,000 to $151,000. This salary range may be modified in the future. The successful candidate's starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, education or training, work location, and market conditions. This position is also eligible for bonus, equity, and benefits.