Title Senior Software Engineer

Navitas Systems LLC, a leader in comprehensive energy storage solutions, was formed in 2011 with the merger of Micro Sun Innovative Energy Storage Solutions and Micro Sun Electronics, and the acquisition of lithium battery company A123 Systems’ Government Solutions Group. In 2019, East Penn Manufacturing, one of the world’s leading battery manufacturers, acquired majority interest in Navitas Systems. In SEVEN remarkable decades, East Penn has grown from a one-room shop with a product line of five automotive batteries to one of the world’s leading battery manufacturers with over 10,500 full-time employees, 515 product designs, operations around the world, and hundreds of awards for industry excellence.

Navitas facilities we engage in the research, design, development, and manufacture of advanced lithium cells and energy storage products and systems for both commercial and industrial customers. We invest in our people, they are and always will be the heart of this company. Are you ready to join a family-owned enterprise committed to honoring the contributions of everyone? Then Navitas is the right place for you.

Navitas Systems is looking for a self-motivated Senior Software Engineer to support and improve our existing Battery Management Systems product line while also developing our next generation platform. This is an opportunity to join at the foundational stage of development and have a direct impact on the architecture, capabilities, and engineering practices that will shape our future products.

As part of a small multidisciplinary engineering team, this position will contribute across the product development V-model and take ownership of challenging technical problems from concept through production. The ideal candidate has strong electronics fundamentals, hands-on product experience, and the ability to work effectively across engineering disciplines with limited direction.

• Develop and support BMS software from requirements and architecture through integration, verification, and production release.
• Develop BMS functions including protection, diagnostics, communications, cell monitoring, balancing, contactor control, and battery state estimation.
• Own complex BMS issues that cross software, electronics, communications, and battery system boundaries, driving them through root cause and resolution.
• Work directly with Systems, Hardware, Validation, Manufacturing, Quality, and Field Application teams to deliver and support complete battery products.
• Define verification methods and perform hands on integration and testing using BMS hardware, battery systems, and engineering test equipment.
• Provide technical direction and oversight for software activities performed by external engineering partners.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Controls Engineering, or related discipline.
• 7+ years developing embedded software or controls for production products using C/C++.
• Experience owning software through multiple stages of the V model, including requirements, design, implementation, integration, and verification.
• Experience developing and debugging software that directly interfaces with electronics, sensors, communications, and control hardware.
• BMS, battery, automotive, power electronics, industrial controls, or similar safety critical embedded product experience.

Knowledge,

Skills and Abilities

• Strong embedded C/C++ development, debugging, and real time software experience.
• Experience with CAN communications and protocols such as J1939 and UDS using tools such as CANalyzer or CANoe.
• Ability to read electrical schematics and troubleshoot interactions between software and hardware.
• Working…