Sr. Firmware Engineer, Energy Products
Tesla
Palo Alto, CA, USA
Posted on Aug 26, 2024
What to Expect What You’ll Bring
Tesla Energy is looking for a Sr. Firmware Engineer to bring the next generation of energy storage and vehicle charging products to the market. The candidate should display enthusiasm for owning the product and delivering top quality firmware. The responsibilities range from architecting, implementing, and validating firmware to also supporting production and driving fleet improvements. This role involves working closely with the Hardware, Controls and Software teams to deliver production grade safety critical firmware for AC/DC and DC/DC power converters. This is an opportunity to work with world class engineering teams that continually push the envelope on power conversion technology. Our power converters get deployed in Tesla products all over the world to serve our mission of accelerating the world’s transition to sustainable energy.
What You’ll Do- Write high-quality C code for realtime embedded systems
- Firmware development and debugging, code/performance optimization, create and execute board level test plans to expose weakness or faults in hardware and firmware
- Translate controls algorithms into software implementation and integrate them into firmware and validation frameworks
- Deliver and manage test firmware to support manufacturing of product assemblies across in-house and external production facilities
- Hands-on hardware bring-up and qualification of power converters, and lab work as needed to support development/debug activities through the entire product lifecycle
- Work with product deployment teams to track fleet performance, assess behavioral issues and help drive firmware improvements to resolve anomalies and deliver new product features
- Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Physics, or equivalent experience
- Capable of delivering top quality C code in a real time embedded environment
- Strong electrical engineering fundamentals
- Strong skills in at least one of the following: Python, Javascript, Simulink
- Experience with typical microcontroller peripherals such as ADC, DAC, PWM, Timers etc. and communication protocols such as SPI, I2C, CAN, UART etc
- Experience with unit testing, software in the loop, or hardware in the loop methodologies is desirable
- Can read hardware schematics and work with the hardware team to deliver production worthy hardware/software co-designed architecture