Firmware Technical Expert

Job Description:

Deep decarbonization of electricity generation together with the electrification of several end-use applications is necessary to address the climate crisis.

Energy Storage Systems (ESS), such as batteries, are a key enabler for deep decarbonization to balance supply and demand.

Schneider Electric's Energy Storage Center of Excellence enables deep decarbonization through the development of innovative energy storage products that are battery technology-agnostic, scalable, cost-effective, and manufacturable

Schneider Electric is looking for a Senior Design Engineer - Embedded Firmware for Battery Management Systems (BMS) & Battery Packs for its Energy Storage Center of Excellence (CoE).

SE's Energy Storage CoE enables company's growth through the development of innovative energy storage products that are battery technology-agnostic, scalable, cost-effective, and manufacturable.

Incumbentwill be responsible for:


* Embedded Firmware design and development for Battery Management Systems for UPS and Storage applications...including Module Level, Rack Level and System level.


* Design, development, testing, debugging, documenting and launch to mass production BMS & Battery Packs that meet regulatory and safety standards, and reliability requirements.

Competencies

Responsibilities:


* Execute firmware related activities for the product which covers (but not limited to) following aspects:



* Requirement elicitation and documentation


* Document firmware designs using Flowcharts, State Machine diagrams, Sequence Diagrams and others


* Implementation of code related to identified design


* Unit testing of the developed code


* Integration testing of FW with HW on bench/ battery pack


* Analysis and issue resolution of defects detected as part of unit testing, DVT, production and/ or field


* Documentation of FW test specification and reports


* Reviews

Work closely with peer FW engineers, FW architect and HW engineers to bring up boards or support in HW validation

Derive and review test plans/ test cases for DVP, integration testsMust-have requirements:


* Good understanding of the FW design and development process and methodology


* Strong understanding of hardware and software functions specific to embedded systems


* Experience with embedded systems product lifecycle development


* 5+ years of experience in the embedded product development (specifically FW), preferably in industrial/ automotive domain


* Experience in development on ARM Cortex M0/M4F/M7 32-bit MCU (STM/ NXP/ TI/...)


* Deep understanding of firmware concepts:



* Startup code


* Schedulers/ RTOS


* Interrupts


* Commuication protocols: CAN, SPI, I2C, MODBUS, UART


* Peripherals: Timers, ADC, DAC, WDOG, DMA


* Memories: Serial Flash, SD card, e-MMC, RAM (Stack, Heap)


* Bootloader concepts

Design experience in layered architecture like AUTOSAR

Well versed i...