Staff Hardware Design 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!

About The Role The Enphase Storage Innovation team in the office of the CTO is responsible for defining, prototyping, and supporting the next-generation system hardware solutions for Enphase products. 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. As a member of the team, you will solve some of the most exciting problems in the distributed energy space and help shape the direction of our products.

The Enphase is seeking a Staff Hardware Design Engineer to develop, integrate, and validate electronic hardware for next generation energy system products and improve current designs.

What You Will Do

• Create innovative embedded and power hardware integration designs to support next-generation energy system products
• Specification, design, schematic capture, prototyping, and debugging of complex circuits, PCBs, electromechanical components, and electrical assemblies, power conditioning subsystems
• Hands-on bring up and performance characterization of hardware circuits, PCBs, and energy system hardware (relays, power meters, power converters, communications devices, etc.)
• Apply simulation, hardware-in-the-loop testing, and prototype testing to ensure designs meet functionality and performance requirements
• Support manufacturing of electronic design hardware, electrical assemblies, and PCBAs for prototype products
• Using the boundary and finite element method to analyze components' electrostatics
• Working with mechanical engineers to integrate the design

Who You Are And What You Bring

• BS/MS/PhD Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, or closely related discipline
• Job title and position level will be determined based on the candidate’s experience.
• Minimum experience: BS and 5+ years / MS and 3+ years / PhD with electronics design experience for a Senior Engineer
• BS and 8+ years / MS and 6+ years / PhD and 3+ years electronics design experience for a Staff Engineer
• Candidates with greater levels of experience may be considered and are encouraged to apply
• Strong digital, mixed-signal, discrete, and/or embedded hardware design skills with commercial product experience
• Experience integrating complex circuits, embedded hardware, power electronics, and/or power components in commercial products
• Using simulation tools to predict circuit behavior
• Proficiency with one or more commercial schematic capture tools such as OrCAD Capture
• Hands-on experience building and testing electronics and electromechanical assemblies
• Ability to troubleshoot hardware-related issues within complex systems and drive solutions
• Proficiency with lab equipment, including power meters, electronic loads, power supplies, oscilloscopes, 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

Additional Desired Skills

• High-volume energy system product development experience
• Experience with medium voltage (up to 100kV) and high current circuits, PCBs, and components
• Familiarity with power electronics circuits/designs and devices
• Experience using OrCAD for schematic capture and Cadence Allegro for PCB layout
• Focusing on providing solutions for design challenges

Travel Occasional travel domestically

Work location Hybrid position (at least 3 days in the office per week) based in Austin, TX

The base pay range for this position is $100,000 to $151,000. This salary range may be modified in the future. The successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, education or training, work location, and market conditions. This position is also eligible for bonus, equity, and benefits.