Senior Firmware Engineer - Communications
Lunar Energy2 months ago
Base Salary
$120k - $175k/yr
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with cross-functional disciplines to refine product designs, improve reliability, and accelerate time to market.
- Brainstorm, evaluate, and select product features and technical solutions based on tradeoffs and first-principles analysis.
- Design firmware for power electronics controls, system behaviors, optimization, diagnostics, updates, communications protocols, and installation automation.
- Develop firmware for RF, powerline, wireless mesh, Ethernet, and other communications capabilities in home energy products.
- Build simulations, perform calculations, and design validation tests for firmware ideas and product designs.
- Design automation-support functionality and support firmware features within high-volume manufacturing processes and partner facilities.
Requirements
- Degree in a computer-engineering-related or adjacent field, or demonstrated commensurate ability.
- 5+ years of experience delivering firmware for new products as part of a development team.
- Experience developing with a wireless mesh network framework such as esp-wifi-mesh.
- Experience releasing high-volume products where 24/7 communications reliability was a core requirement.
- Experience with communication protocols, CAN, and Protocol Buffers.
- Experience with Espressif ESP-IDF product development.
- Experience with embedded Ethernet stacks, TCP/IP, BSD Socket API, and HTTPS.
- Wireless communications experience with Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi Mesh, Bluetooth/BLE, and BLE-Mesh.
- Proficiency in C and working familiarity with CMake and Python.
- Working knowledge of oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and other laboratory test equipment.
Benefits
- Competitive base pay of $120,000-$175,000 USD, plus potential equity and participation in the employee stock program.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents.
- Flexible paid time off and 10 paid holidays.
- Tax-deferred 401(k) plan.
- Paid parental leave, including 12 weeks for birthing mothers and 6 weeks for non-birthing parents.
- Subsidized EV charging and pre-tax commuter benefits.
About Lunar Energy
Lunar Energy builds residential solar-and-battery storage systems and the Gridshare energy management platform that controls home batteries and EV chargers, helping homeowners optimize usage and keep power during outages. It sells hardware and software for all-electric homes and works with partners and utilities to aggregate distributed resources into virtual power plants. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Mountain View, CA, the company is privately held.