Embedded Software Engineer, Microcontrollers
Base Power Company1 day ago
Responsibilities
- Own state machines, control and sequencing logic, fault handling, and safety coordination for battery, inverter, and disconnect-system microcontrollers.
- Lead new board bring-up through peripheral configuration, driver development, and BSP/HAL integration.
- Implement deterministic real-time control and protection on multi-core microcontrollers within ISR timing and jitter budgets.
- Build and maintain CAN/CAN-FD communications, buffering, transport reliability, higher-level protocols, and firmware-update flows.
- Partner with hardware and power electronics engineers on schematics, processor and peripheral selection, pin assignments, timing, and HW/SW debugging.
- Create reusable firmware libraries and coding standards for multiple products.
- Take firmware from prototype through production and field deployment using hardware-in-the-loop testing and crash dumps.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience shipping bare-metal and/or RTOS firmware on modern microcontrollers such as ARM Cortex-M, including taking products to manufacturing.
- Deep expertise in C/C++ with knowledge of memory management, ISR-safe patterns, and compiler and runtime behavior.
- Ability to read schematics and datasheets and make processor-selection and hardware/software design tradeoffs.
- Strong firmware architecture, observability, defensive coding, root-cause debugging, and hardware integration skills.
- Preferred experience designing deterministic real-time control and protection on multi-core microcontrollers with robust fault handling and safe recovery.
- Preferred experience with CAN/CAN-FD, ISO-TP, UDS, and firmware updates over CAN.
- Familiarity with power electronics, grid-tied inverters, or battery management is a plus.
Benefits
- Work is performed in person alongside hardware and power electronics engineers in the lab and on the bench.
- Base is a startup where priorities and responsibilities may evolve quickly.
- The role is described as not being a 9-to-5 position.
About Base Power Company
Base Power Company builds and operates distributed home battery systems that provide outage protection and lower electric costs for households, while strengthening local grid reliability. The company sells and finances these systems directly and through partnerships with homebuilders in a B2B2C model. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Base is privately held and focuses on clean energy, energy storage, and grid services in the U.S. market.