Senior System Firmware Engineer

Company Description

XP Power is a designer and manufacturer of electronic power conversion products which it supplies to the electronics industry. It serves the Industrial, Healthcare, Semiconductor Equipment Manufacturing and Technology markets. It has sales and marketing operations in North America, Europe and Asia and manufacturing in China, Vietnam and North America. The Company is listed on the London Stock Exchange.

The Company has a history of consistently growing revenues (18% CAGR over the last 4 years) and profits (16% CAGR over the last 4 years) and is highly cash generative. Revenues in 2019 were in excess of US$250 million. The company has ambitious growth plans to enter the FTSE250 within the next 3 years. XP Power has been consistently profitable and cash generative.

Job Description

Reporting to the Firmware Team Lead/Project Manager, the successful applicant will be involved in switching mode power supply development activities such as firmware development, firmware verification, auto test program, prototyping, evaluation and assisting manufacturing in BETA run of the new product.

• Participate in product definition, specification, and requirements analysis working with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Collaboration on firmware architecture and development strategy with a particular focus on wired and wireless networks.
• Design new products in timely manner to meet the product spec, modify existing designs, improve existing products for better performance and /or cost.
• Participate in product definition, specification and requirements analysis working with cross functional stakeholders.
• Design, code, integrate, test, support and enhance software solutions for power conversion systems.
• Perform system integration and validation testing activities, including verification of interoperability within overall solution.
• Assist with evaluating existing and emerging technologies to identify solutions that will reliably operate in a wide range of installed environments.
• Architecting, developing, integrating, and delivering embedded and PC software in a regulated product development.
• Participating in all project lifecycle phases – from design and code development through unit testing, documentation, and release.
• Coaching and guidance to Jr Firmware engineers in evaluation and design.
• Provides technical direction to the team.
• Provide technical support to factory on design related issue.
• Provide support for power supply prototypes and production products.
• Collaborate with remote teams and local teams to support integration work with hardware team.
• Participate in software qualification activities such as SFMEA and code reviews.
• Participate in system integration and validation testing activities, including production/factory support.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• 5-7 years of related work experience.
• Experience or good understanding of power supply topologies and analog/digital circuitry is a plus.
• Familiarity with software development (Microsoft C#, GUI).
• Experience with Microchip, TI, ST microcontrollers and DSPs.
• Experience interacting with software debugging in an embedded environment.
• Familiarity with digital control or firmware for power electronics a plus (PWMs, ADC, digital filter).
• Experience in embedded system or signal processing algorithms (DSP) control.
• Experience implementing & developing communication stack driver and networking physical protocols (I2C, SPI, RS-485, PMBus, Modbus, Ethernet, etc.).
• Some knowledge/experience in IoT, TCP/IP, Websocket, LWIP stack or freeRTOS will be an added advantage.
• Comfortable using oscilloscopes, multi-meters, power supplies, etc.
• Comfortable reading hardware schematics and data sheets.
• Familiarity with version control systems (SVN), and release methodologies.
• Familiarity with MISRA, IEC62304 or other coding standards will be an added advantage.
• Disciplined and detail-oriented; experience delivering robust, readable code.
• Experience in recreating sporadic types of issues/failures using various debugging techniques.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience collaborating with remote teams.