Staff Hardware Engineer

Description

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!

This role at Enphase requires working onsite 3 days a week, with plans to transition back to a full 5 day in office schedule over time.

About The Role

As a Staff Hardware Engineer, you will be part of the Product Engineering team, who are responsible for developing new products, improving existing products and maintaining throughout their lifecycle, including feature or performance enhancement, hardware fixes and addressing obsolescence issues. 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.

What you will be doing

• Develop new products and variants through the product lifecycle
• Specify engineering requirements and support creating test plans and generate test reports in JAMA
• Design and develop high-speed multi-layer PCBs for Electric vehicle charging applications and Embedded computing systems
• Perform schematic capture, component selection and layout using tools like Orcad & Cadence Allegro
• Conduct signal integrity (SI) and power integrity (PI) simulations using tools such as HyperLynx, Sigrity
• Work with cross-functional teams to define board architecture, stack-up, and routing strategies
• Collaborate with mechanical, firmware and manufacturing teams to ensure design feasibility and compliance
• Validate board performance through lab testing, debugging using oscilloscopes and logic analyzers
• Hands-on bring up and performance characterization of hardware circuits, PCBs and energy system hardware (relays, power meters, power converters, communications devices, etc)
• Ensure compliance with EMI/EMC standards and participate in certification processes
• Support manufacturing of electronic design hardware, electrical assemblies and PCBAs for prototype products
  
  
  

• B.E. and 8+ years’ experience outside of university or Masters and 6+ years
• Strong hands-on experience on High-speed board design and signal integrity
• Experience with Microcontrollers and Microprocessors based systems
• Experience with common communication protocols such as DDR4, USB 3.x, LVDS, RGMII, eMMC, SPI, I2C
• Experience working with Ethernet switching Technology such as Fast Ethernet, Gigabit, 10GbaseT
• Experience in Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, PLC (Power line Communication) CAN & RS485 interfaces
• Experience in Mixed-signal, Analog and Power electronics
• Proficiency in PCB design and simulation tools
• Experience with impedance control, differential pair routing, and length matching
• Familiarity with design for manufacturability (DFM) and design for testability (DFT)
• Excellent circuit debugging and troubleshooting capabilities
• Experience in EMI (Electromagnetic Interference) filter design and product qualification/compliance testing
• Experience in writing technical documents such as hardware requirements, product design specifications, test specifications and board-level design details
• Should be familiar with Lab equipment like oscilloscope, Power sources, Electronic Loads etc
• Familiar with Modelling & simulation tools like LTSpice, Pspice, HyperLynx, 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
  
  
  

• Hands-on experience with RF circuit design and antenna tuning
• Good understanding of Embedded software development and working in a Test Automation environment
• In addition to High-speed skills, good in Power Electronics circuits which includes power supply and inverter topologies
• Good understanding of Product validation, compliance and electrical grid standards
• Familiarity with the UL & IEC standards on safety & EMI/EMC