Embedded Software Engineer

1st Avenue Power (1AP) is creating a future where every nation, business, and community thrives with limitless access to cheap, reliable clean power.

We deliver rapidly deployable power systems that generate Hyperfirm™ inexpensive clean energy, leveraging the abundance of solar to liberate energy-constrained industries like hyperscale datacenters.

As our first Embedded Software Engineer, you will be given a clean slate to architect and build the Embedded layer of a next-generation utility-scale power system.

This is a high-agency role for any Engineer who wants to build software that controls massive amounts of energy in the physical world.

You will take ownership of initial architectural decisions, from the communication stack to cloud telemetry, building an ecosystem without the burden of legacy technical debt.

• System Integration: Design and deploy comprehensive software solutions for supervisory control, OTA updates, telemetry, and manufacturing self-test protocols across solar, storage, and load subsystems.
• Hardware Interfacing: Develop low-level drivers and communication stacks for power electronics using RS232/RS485, Modbus RTU, and CANbus to ensure seamless hardware-to-software connectivity.
• Lead board bring-up efforts, ensuring hardware-firmware integration from power-on to full functionality.
• Conduct comprehensive microcontroller and peripheral evaluations to select optimal components for system performance.
• Architect and maintain robust device infrastructure, including secure bootloaders, automated firmware provisioning, and system diagnostics.
• Safety-Critical Logic: Engineer high-reliability monitoring systems for arc fault detection and thermal management, implementing rapid software responses to hardware-level interrupts and fault signals.
• Architecture: Take ownership of initial decisions for Linux-based gateways and communication layers from a clean slate.
• Real-Time Control: Develop, enhance, and debug new and existing real-time software in embedded Linux and RTOS environments.
• Validation: Drive a test-driven mentality where unit testing, software-in-the-loop (SIL), and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) are as important as developing new firmware.