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About the Company

Powin Energy is a leading producer of utility scale modular battery energy storage system (complete with a patented, advanced, cloud-based monitoring/control system). That means we build power plants out of batteries that put coal and gas generators out of business and enable sustainable viability for renewable energy sources like solar and wind.

Powin is, and will continue to be, one of a handful of companies that will provide the equipment necessary to make this happen. Powin has distinct competitive advantages: cost-effectiveness; reliability; scalability; deploy-ability; and operational sophistication. Every day we work to ensure that we maintain these competitive advantages and our position as a global leader in providing turnkey, battery energy storage solutions for utility-scale, commercial and industrial, and microgrid applications.

Summary:

Powin is looking for an experienced embedded software engineer to work on our grid-scale battery energy storage system (BESS). You will work with other embedded software engineers, software engineers, hardware engineers, and quality assurance engineers to design and implement firmware features that interface with higher-level software layers. This position reports to the Director of Embedded Software Development.

Job Details:

• Design, implement and document firmware functional blocks in a large energy storage system
• Work with multi-function engineering team to develop stable and safe operation methods to control an energy storage system operation
• Collaborate with product team to design and implement seamless operation with upper software layers
• Support product team in bring-up and testing of the firmware and software stack product
• Communicate projects status and risks to leadership
• Assist in triaging, investigating and fixing issues raised by QA and field operations

Qualifications:

• BS degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or Computer Science
• 2-5 years of experience designing and implementing firmware
• Proficient in embedded C/C programming
• Knowledge of ARM Cortex-M processor
• Knowledge of UART, SPI, IIC, CAN and Ethernet communication interface
• Familiar with boot-loader design
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Able to effectively communicate technical concepts to document requirement specification and test plans
• Comfortable in operating lab instruments such as logic analyzer and oscilloscope
• Able to read and understand electrical schematics that relate to the embedded control

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiar with Python or Java language
• Knowledge of BMS design for lithium-ion battery
• Hands-on knowledge of developing a product to be certified to IEC61508 industrial safety standards

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