Principal Engineer Firmware

You are characterized by strategic thinking, business sense, entrepreneurial thinking and a good understanding of firmware trends for power conversion solutions are your home turf? Then we have just the right position for you! As a Principal Engineer Firmware (f/m/d) you will drive firmware innovation to ensure Infineon’s competitiveness in the future. Come and join our highly motivated team in Dresden!

In your new role you will:

• Drive firmware innovation to ensure Infineon’s competitiveness in the future

• Develop, implement and own the firmware for our next generation power conversion solutions, with a strong focus on power supply applications

• Analyze, design and optimize firmware architectures for microcontroller-based systems

• Explore and develop new concepts with respect to power conversion

• Write, test and debug firmware in close collaboration with ourhardware teams.

• Take on technical leadership within projects and support the team through mentoring and knowledge sharing

• Contribute to Model-Based Design (MBD) using tools like MATLAB/Simulink

• Work on simulations, Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) testing and verification processes

Your Profile

This position is part of Infineon´s Technical Ladder Career Path: a special career path for those who share innovative ideas, reveal comprehensive technical knowledge, show thought leadership, possess problem solving abilities and are able to create business value.

You are best equipped for this task if you have:

• A Master or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Embedded Systems or a related field

• At least 5 years of professional experience within the power electronics market and with the power conversion

• Experience in designing firmware for power electronic systems or other critical systems that have been successfully deployed at scale

• Knowledge of power supply topologies like Totem Pole PFC and Resonant LLC converter

• Solid knowledge of power electronics, particularly in power supply

• Good experience in power conversion from AC to DC and DC to DC

• Expertise in C programming and experience with at least one type of microcontroller

• Basic understanding of Model-Based Design (MATLAB/Simulink or similar tools) and hands on experience with power supplies

• Experience in simulations, verification, or Hardware-in-the-Loop systems

• Strong soft skills: Team player, excellent communication abilities and capable of taking on a Technical Lead role