Firmware Engineer

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Advanced Energy (Nasdaq: AEIS) is a global leader in the design and manufacturing of highly engineered, precision power conversion, measurement and control solutions for mission-critical applications and processes.

AE’s power solutions enable customer innovation in complex applications for a wide range of industries including semiconductor equipment, industrial, manufacturing, telecommunications, data center computing and healthcare. Advanced Energy has devoted four decades to perfecting power for its global customers and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

We operate like an agile, growing, small company – you can see your work make a difference to the company every day. We are a global company founded in 1981 and have been publicly traded for more than 28 years. We have a strong cash position, deep trust and partnership with leading customers, a global best-in-class operations capability, and a proven leadership team.

We have a track record and resources to make things happen both organically and inorganically. Being part of a nimble company with a solid foundation attracts team members that are capable, driven and like a challenge. Our employees collaborate and know how to have fun inventing, working, building and winning together. At our core, we are Advanced Energy – powering the future, together.

A Firmware Engineer will design, modify, and evaluate embedded software, and/or programmable logic and/or electronic apparatus, components, or circuitry for use in electronic equipment and devices. You will perform engineering work in basic and applied research, development, and/or design of new products and/or sustaining of existing products.

• Utilize advanced level programming ability in C and assembly languages in an embedded environment, including bare-metal microcontrollers.
• Apply working knowledge of microcontrollers, hardware circuit theory, software development tools, and knowledge of the architecture and electronic hardware encountered in Power Supply or ARM based microcontroller-based systems.
• Troubleshoot and debug hardware and software systems issues.
• Exercise engineering judgment to select and develop methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria to secure project success.
• Work in a team environment with hardware engineers, electrical engineers, mechanical engineers, and program managers on product development of extensive scope.
• Utilize strong communication and team skills. Persuade and gain agreement with cross functional teams (hardware) and the ability to effectively communicate with multiple levels of an organization.
• Participate in the preparation of internal and external software documentation including, but not necessarily limited to:
  Requirements Specifications, Design Specifications and Test plans.
• Responsible for broad technical knowledge of electronic apparatus, components, or circuitry for use in electronic equipment and devices, including but not limited to DC circuits, AC to DC converters, AC power factor correction, high power transistors and rectifiers, digital and analog loop stability, magnetic design, worse case component analysis, digital hardware, firmware, test and measurement systems, and electrical/safety regulatory compliance.
• Responsible to diagnose issues of diverse scope with design, field performance, root cause/failure analysis, reliability and manufacturing test yields of existing power supply products using formal investigation methods and to recommend/implement corrective actions to address.
• Implement advanced software development techniques in compliance with technical reference architecture.
• Participate in on-going code reviews to improve software stability and maintainability of an aging code base.
• Perform technical review, design analysis, development and selection of hardware and mission critical computer software

Works in a noisy fast-paced power development lab and standard office environment

• Ability to follow standard practices and procedures in analyzing…