Senior Specialist Firmware/RTL Engineer

Eaton's Electrical Critical Power Solutions division is currently seeking a Senior Specialist Firmware Engineer to join our team. This position will be a hybrid office as long as you live within 50 miles of our Youngsville, NC facility. Relocation benefits will be provided within the United States only.

The expected annual salary range for this role is $137,000 - $201,000 a year. This position is also eligible for a variable incentive program.

Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

The role is responsible for designing the firmware architecture and implementing it for new product development projects in medium voltage solid state transformer, high-power three-phase UPS's, EV chargers and battery storage. The role includes all aspects of product design life cycle from concept to production as part of a dynamic, multi-disciplinary team. This person will be the project "go to" power electronics firmware design engineer for day-to-day firmware design and analysis, firmware verification testing and results analysis. If you have a passion for firmware design of power electronics-centric products, this role is for you.

What you'll do:

• Successfully launch critical power infrastructure products that meet customer requirements and Eaton safety, quality, reliability, cost and schedule commitments.
• Work with cross-functional engineering team to define requirements and create detailed system and circuit designs for new products including medium voltage solid state transformers, three-phase UPS, DC chargers from 500kW to 3.5MW and larger energy storage systems.
• Leverage your skill and experience by giving guidance and leadership to other technical project team members.
• Work with global product development teams to solve problems related to performance, functionality, safety, reliability, quality and component availability. Develop unique ways of uncovering product compliance issues before products are built. Bring product design issues and solutions to the fore front of discussion during product design reviews.
• Provide technical leadership by mentoring engineers, guiding best practices, and owning programs from concept through integrated system delivery.
• Integrate and optimize embedded control solutions, combining auto generated and handwritten C/C++ code for real time, safety critical environments.

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from an accredited institution
• Minimum of nine (9) years work experience in Power Electronics R&D and commercial launch product development
• Minimum of five (5) years work experience with high power (>50kW) three-phase 480Vac UPS's, motor drives or medium voltage products or similar products.
• Minimum three (3)with FPGA-based implementation of digital control algorithms and PWM modulation techniques.
• Minimum five (5) in embedded firmware development and programming in C/C++
• Must be able to work in the United States without corporate sponsorship now and within the future. Eaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position. This means that Eaton will not support any CPT, OPT, or STEM OPT plans, F-1 to H-1B, H-1B cap registration, O-1, E-3, TN status, I-485 job portability, etc.

• Master's degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering from accredited institution.
• 7+ years of experience with high power (>50kW) three-phase 480Vac UPS's, motor drives, medium voltage products or similar products.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with control and embedded FW validation with HIL (e.g., OPAL-RT HIL).
• Strong foundation in Electrical Engineering.
• Proficient in developing and implementing controls with auto-code generation tools (e.g., Simulink Coder).
• Deep understanding of power systems and power electronics domains.
• Experience with Requirements Engineering processes and tools, such as JAMA or DNG.
• Familiarity with CI/CD practices and source control tools (e.g., GitHub), including automation workflows (e.g., GitHub Actions).
• Hands on experience with system level simulations, including architecture level analysis, system logic and behavioral modeling, and performance trade off evaluation.