Staff Hardware Engineer

Enphase Energy is a global energy technology company and leading provider of solar, battery, and electric vehicle charging products. Founded in 2006, Enphase transformed the solar industry with our revolutionary microinverter technology, which turns sunlight into a safe, reliable, resilient, and scalable source of energy to power our lives. Today, the Enphase Energy System helps people make, use, save, and sell their own power. Enphase is also one of the fastest growing and innovative clean energy companies in the world, with approximately 68 million products installed across more than 145 countries.               

We are building teams that are designing, developing, and manufacturing next-generation energy technologies and our work environment is fast-paced, fun and full of exciting new projects.                

If you are passionate about advancing a more sustainable future, this is the perfect time to join Enphase!              

About the role

• Develop consumer market single phase DC/AC power systems and lithium-ion based energy storage systems
• In-depth knowledge of Battery Management Systems (BMS) design for safety, functionality and performance is a plus
• Work with cross-functional teams of hardware, firmware, test automation, mechanical engineers, manufacturing engineers, and supply chain
• Specify, design, verify and debug complex circuits and PCBs for our portable energy system products
• Design validation and optimization of products and sub-systems
• Analog and digital circuit design schematic capture, layout capture and design optimization in tools like Allegro, OrCAD etc
• Assist product compliance engineers to achieve global certifications for our products (deep understanding of creepage, clearance, spacing, EMI compliance)
• Specify engineering requirements and support creating test plans and generate test reports in JAMA 
• Provide technical mentoring to manufacturing and field service engineers
• Raise the bar for technical excellence, accurate documentation and scientific rigor

Who you are and what you bring:   

• B.E. in Electrical/Electronics Engineering with Power Electronic specialization and 8+ years’ experience outside of university or
• Masters in Power Electronics and 6+ years or
• PhD in Power Electronics and 3+ years
• Developing electronic products from the concept stage to market launch in a commercial environment.
• Expert in DC-AC inverter power electronics hardware design or similar power converter design for domestic UPS like products.
• Component selection, schematic capture, design optimization
• Knowledge of circuit schematic, PCB layout and simulation tools
• Practical experience of in-depth bench testing and debugging of hardware designs.
• Circuit design for high fidelity digital and analog signals and low EMI emissions
• Experience with regulatory and compliance certifications to UL1741, IEC62109, UL2743, IEEE 1547, CEI-021, VDE-021 
• High fidelity analog and high-speed digital circuit design
• High-volume product development
• Test automation
• OrCad schematic capture and Cadence Allegro PCB layout
• Python programming
• Knowledge of Embedded software
• Power supply and inverter topologies
• Control theory

• Bangalore - India