We are Generac, a leading energy technology company committed to powering a smarter world.
Over the 60 plus years of Generac’s history, we’ve been dedicated to energy innovation. From creating the home standby generator market category, to our current evolution into an energy technology solutions company, we continue to push new boundaries.
Generac Home is dedicated to delivering state of the art Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) for our residential customers to improve energy reliability and grid independence. Generac Home is looking for a Firmware Engineer with experience or desire to grow in the area of Power Electronics to help create next generation energy storage designs. This role entails ownership of firmware implementation, validation, and ongoing fleet improvements. The candidate should demonstrate solid technical and organizational skills and be excited about bringing sustainable energy to the world.
Located onsite in North Billerica, MA (alternate So. Portland, ME).
What You’ll Do:
+ Develop control algorithms for switch mode power electronics.
+ Drive power electronics, communications, and battery design architecture with a firmware focus.
+ Develop, enhance and debug new and existing real-time firmware in C.
+ Design and implement functionality and behaviors of embedded subsystems.
+ Drive firmware development for performance, scalability, robustness, and tight integration with the hardware.
+ Design safety rated firmware to meet UL1998 or related standards.
+ Hands-on hardware bring up, build and execute component validation to deliver robust, functional code.
+ Utilize Claude code to efficiently build modules, testing and general tooling to maximize efficiency
Minimum Requirements:
+ BS in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics
+ At least 2 years of relevant work experience with power converters or embedded systems.
Preferred qualifications
+ Experience with switch mode power electronics including: inverters, DC-DC converters, power management, power conversion and control
+ Excellent software fundamentals, including architectural design, algorithm development, data structures, code modularity, and maintainability.
+ Multithreaded and RTOS experience. Experience with communication interfaces on embedded systems such as RS-485, CAN, SPI, I2C is desired.
+ Experience with test-driven development using unit testing, software in the loop, or hardware in the loop methodologies. Our developers