Sr. Embedded Software Engineer (Power Electronics)

Location: Huntsville, AL, United States; U.S. citizenship, nationality, permanent residency, refugee status, or asylum status is required under export control regulations.

Base pay range for Washington applicants: $197,529.00–$276,539.55 annually; other site ranges may differ.

Company

hirify.global develops reusable space vehicles, rocket engines, propulsion systems, and related aerospace systems for commercial, civil, national security, and human spaceflight applications.

What you will do

• Develop, test, and maintain embedded software and firmware for microcontrollers, DSPs, and FPGA-based control platforms.
• Implement low-level drivers, control interfaces, communication protocols, and real-time software for power electronics systems.
• Interface with ADCs, voltage, current, and temperature sensors, PWM modules, timers, gate drivers, and protection circuits.
• Implement sensor acquisition, scaling, filtering, calibration, diagnostics, and fault handling for power converters, inverters, and motor drives.
• Develop and debug CAN, SPI, I2C, UART, Ethernet, and other embedded communication interfaces.
• Collaborate with hardware, controls, and power electronics engineers on board bring-up, integration, validation, testing, and documentation.

Requirements

• Experience developing embedded software or firmware for microcontrollers, DSPs, or FPGA-based systems.
• Strong C/C++ programming experience for real-time embedded systems.
• Understanding of ADCs, PWM generation, timers, interrupts, communication peripherals, and low-level hardware interfaces.
• Experience working with voltage, current, and temperature sensor data in embedded systems.
• Knowledge of real-time software design, debugging, and hardware/software integration.
• Ability to read schematics and work closely with hardware engineers during board bring-up and troubleshooting.
• Hands-on experience with embedded development tools, debuggers, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and laboratory equipment.
• BS in computer engineering, electrical engineering, mechatronics, or a similar engineering field, plus 7+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Ability to meet the stated U.S. export-control eligibility requirements.

Nice to have

• Experience with power electronics, power converters, inverters, motor drives, battery systems, or renewable energy systems.
• Experience with DSP platforms, FPGA logic integration, VHDL/Verilog, or FPGA-based control systems.
• Familiarity with power electronics or motor-control algorithms.
• Experience with fault detection, protection logic, diagnostics, and safety-critical embedded systems.
• Knowledge of bootloaders, RTOS, device drivers, memory management, and embedded software architecture.
• Experience with hardware-in-the-loop testing, automated testing, or production software validation.

Culture & Benefits

• Safety, collaboration, inclusion, trust, equality, and teamwork are emphasized.
• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, paid parental leave, short- and long-term disability, and an education support program.
• 401(k) with a company match of up to 5%.
• Stock options for regular employees working at least 20 hours per week.
• Up to four weeks of paid time off per year based on scheduled hours and up to 14 company-paid holidays.
• A standard background check is required; additional checks may apply to certain roles.