Embedded Software Engineer III

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 Clean Energy Solutions (GCES) is on a mission to drive down global carbon emissions through the manufacture and sale of renewable energy production and storage technologies. GCES is seeking a Senior Embedded Engineer (Level III) to contribute to the design, implementation, and maintenance of the system that orchestrates automated control of all equipment that features in their renewable energy production and storage solutions deployed to residential sites.

This critical, highly visible system services a wide variety of stakeholders, both internal and external to GCES, and ensures that conflicts among stakeholder expectations are resolved in a transparent manner that never comprises site integrity or customer safety.

This role will be located onsite at the Engineering Center of Excellence in Reno, NV. This is an on-site role, with reasonable flexibility and accommodations.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Lead the design of new control system components.
• Contribute to the development of the firmware-based portion of the control system, written in Rust
• Implement system/end-to-end tests to exercise changes.
• Contribute to the maintenance and expansion of the continuous integration pipeline for the firmware-based portion of the control system.
• Represent the control system in interactions with internal and external stakeholders.
• Play a leading role in establishing the priority of features.
• Participate in sprints and associated meetings.
• Review and critique peer contributions through pull requests.
• Mentor junior engineers
  
  
  

Minimal Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering or a related discipline
• Experience leading design and implementation of software applications in a professional context.
• Familiarity with edge device firmware application implementation using Rust or C or C ,
• Experience writing automated unit and system/end-to-end tests in a professional context.
• Familiarity with continuous integration and related technologies (e.g. CircleCI or Jenkins)
• Someone who can work with cross functional teams such as other firmware teams and contractors and has demonstrated experience developing requirements and revision control standards
  
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• MQTT or CAN and Protocol buffers is a bonus.
• Embedded Linux Platform
• Worked with a wide variety of modern and emerging technologies.
  
  
  

Physical Demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear; and use hands to manipulate objects or controls. The employee is regularly required to stand and walk. On occasion the incumbent may be required to stoop, bend or reach above the shoulders. The employee must occasionally lift up to 25 - 50 pounds. Specific conditions of this job are typical of frequent and continuous computer-based work requiring periods of sitting, close vision and ability to adjust focus. Occasional travel.

“We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.”