Embedded Software Engineer

TAE Power Solutions (TPS) is the electrification spin-off from TAE Technologies, a leader in nuclear fusion technology. The company is leveraging unique power management technology originally developed for nuclear fusion and applying it in adjacent industries including Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) and DC Fast Charging for electric vehicles.

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Embedded Software Engineer to design, develop, and validate real-time firmware for power electronics, battery energy storage, and industrial control systems. You will build reliable, modular, fault-tolerant C/C++ software on bare-metal and RTOS platforms, integrate with PLCs, sensors, and batteries over industrial protocols, and support functional safety requirements.

This is a full-time contract postion on-site position in Irvine, CA.

Role Attributes

• Design, develop, and maintain C/C++ software for RTOS, Real-Time Linux, and Linux-based embedded controllers for real-time sensing, communication, monitoring, and device control.
• Develop multi-threaded and real-time applications, including task scheduling, interrupts, synchronization, IPC, timers, state machines, watchdogs, and fault handling.
• Develop and integrate low-level hardware interfaces and communication protocols including GPIO, UART, SPI, I²C, CAN/CAN-FD, Ethernet, TCP/IP, and UDP.
• Develop and debug device drivers, BSP/HAL components, and hardware/software interfaces.
• Perform system-level debugging and performance analysis, including latency, jitter, CPU/memory utilization, and communication performance.
• Support networking and application interfaces including REST, MQTT, gRPC/Protobuf, and related technologies.
• Develop Python tools for test automation, diagnostics, data collection, and hardware validation.
• Participate in architecture/design reviews, code reviews, testing, integration, and system validation.

Qualifications, Functional Experience & Skills

Required

• BS/MS in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field, with 5+ years of embedded/real-time software development experience.
• Strong proficiency in C/C++ and working proficiency in Python.
• Strong foundation in computer organization and architecture, including Von Neumann/Harvard architectures, CPU operation, registers, instruction execution, buses, and memory-mapped I/O.
• Strong understanding of memory architecture, including cache, SRAM/DRAM/Flash, stack/heap, virtual/physical memory, DMA, and memory management.
• Strong knowledge of Real-Time Operating Systems, including tasks/threads, scheduling, priorities, context switching, mutexes/semaphores, queues, synchronization, priority inversion, latency, jitter, and deterministic execution.
• Strong understanding of hardware/software interrupts, ISRs, interrupt priorities, exceptions, interrupt latency, and interrupt-to-task interaction.
• Hands-on experience with embedded controllers/microprocessors/SoCs and hardware interfaces such as GPIO, UART, SPI, I²C, CAN/CAN-FD, ADC/DAC, and Ethernet.
• Experience with Embedded/Real-Time Linux, multithreading, IPC, sockets, device interfaces, and user-space/kernel-space concepts.
• Ability to read schematics, datasheets, register maps, memory maps, and timing diagrams and debug hardware/software interactions.

Preferred Attributes

• Experience with FreeRTOS, Zephyr, QNX, VxWorks, ThreadX, PREEMPT_RT, ARM-based controllers, device drivers, BSPs, Yocto/Buildroot, industrial communication protocols, and JTAG/GDB/oscilloscope/logic-analyzer debugging.
• Experience with BESS/HESS, BMS, PCS, power electronics, industrial controls, automotive, robotics, or other real-time control systems is a plus.

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Imagination, skill, and will

At TAE Power Solutions, we design power systems that use less but do more. Systems that charge faster, run stronger, go farther, and last longer. We inspire better ways to move, work, play, and live.

The future is electric, because it's powered by TAE.

We are unwavering in our expertise and knowledge, separating fact from fiction and proof from hypothesis.

You will be a successful member of TAE Power Solutions if you have these traits:

Confident

You are confident in your skills, based on your credentials, technical accomplishments, and positive impact on your teams/organizations.

Collaborative

You are collaborative and work well within and with teams to approach challenges with respect, transparency, optimism, and confidence to succeed together.

Creative

You are creative, with determination to learn continuously, break new ground, and push the cutting edge.

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