Hiring: Sr. Manager, Hardware and Firmware - BESS systems Company: Enphase Energy Location: Austin, TX Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 13:58:02 Employment Type: On-site Target Skills & Keywords : Agile, C, Confluence, Embedded Systems, Firmware, GitHub, Jira, MATLAB, PCB, Product Lifecycle Management, Program Management, Python, R, RTOS, Simulink, Vault About the job Experience: •10+ years of relevant industry experience in embedded firmware and/or electrical hardware development, including 2+ years leading engineers as a people manager or technical lead. Required Skills: •This is a rare combined-scope role. We are looking for a leader with genuine depth in either embedded firmware or electrical hardware, and the credibility and curiosity to lead engineers in the other. •Manage, coach, and grow a team of 4–6 embedded firmware and electrical hardware engineers, owning hiring, performance management, and career development. •Set technical direction across both disciplines, own architecture and design review quality, and hold the bar on documentation and engineering rigor. •Plan and commit to schedules, staffing, and deliverables across concurrent programs, and communicate status and risk clearly to engineering and program leadership. •Partner closely with power electronics, thermal, mechanical, systems, SDVT, compliance, manufacturing, and program management teams — locally and across our global R&D sites. •Represent the Austin site in a distributed organization, and build the local engineering culture as the team scales. •Contribute directly on critical-path work — architecture definition, board and system bring-up, and escalation debug. •Review firmware architecture and hardware schematics, and make the call on design trade-offs spanning both domains. Compensation: •$130,000 - $183,000 / year •This position is entitled for bonus, RSU stocks in equity, premium health insurance and 401k matching benefits Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!