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Eaton

Power management leader for electrical systems

Embedded Software Specialist - Research & Development Engineering

Embedded EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeMoon Twp, PA, USA$122k - $179k /yr

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field from an accredited institution is required.
  • At least 7 years of experience developing embedded software or firmware for industrial products is required.
  • At least 5 years of technical leadership experience in roles such as lead engineer, software specialist, or architect, involving embedded software and hardware/software integration, is required.
  • Experience developing embedded software in C/C++ and working with real-time operating systems or embedded Linux is required.
  • Experience designing, integrating, and debugging embedded systems involving data acquisition, measurement processing, or industrial communications is required.
  • Applicants requiring employment immigration sponsorship or support are not eligible; this includes CPT, OPT, STEM OPT, F-1 to H-1B, H-1B cap registration, O-1, E-3, TN status, and I-485 job portability.

Responsibilities

  • Define robust, modular software and system architectures for energy metering and power quality products, enabling scalable, reliable solutions across product families, and serve as the primary technical authority for software and system-level decisions.
  • Provide technical leadership for embedded software development in C/C++ across bare-metal, embedded Linux, and RTOS platforms, including FreeRTOS and Zephyr, ensuring deterministic high-rate sampling, effective multitasking, and reliable bootloaders, BSP/HAL layers, drivers, and inter-processor communications.
  • Collaborate with product management and marketing to translate customer needs into clear, traceable product specifications, including system requirements, software requirements, and acceptance criteria for the metering industry.
  • Drive compliance with applicable metering and power quality standards, including ANSI accuracy standards, ANSI C12.46, IEC 61000-4-30, and NEMA/ANSI submetering requirements, with IEEE C37.118 applied where synchro phasor functionality is required; work with validation teams to demonstrate compliance under harmonic distortion and environmental variations.
  • Establish and champion software quality, cybersecurity, and verification practices, including code reviews, Black Duck/Coverity scanning, secure boot, code signing, CI/CD, and compatibility testing across hardware and software variants.
  • Lead the development and integration of high-precision measurement algorithms, including RMS, power, energy, demand, vector calculations, and phase compensation, to achieve required accuracy across operating ranges and real-world electrical conditions.
  • Guide advanced power quality measurement and analytics, including waveform capture, harmonic analysis, flicker, anomaly detection, circuit health monitoring, and event sequencing, using precise timestamping and NTP/PTP synchronization to deliver reliable diagnostic information.
  • Partner with hardware engineers to ensure accurate sensing and acquisition, addressing current and voltage sensing, Rogowski coils, DC sensing, ADC interfacing, sampling theory, noise, and analog front-end behavior to achieve system-level measurement performance.
  • Guide secure communications and platform integration, including TCP/UDP, Modbus, BACnet, CAN, EtherNet/IP, SNMP, MQTT, AMQP, and GOOSE as applicable, and integrate metering applications with the proprietary platform team, APIs, logging, and event-management capabilities.
  • Establish software architecture and interface practices for metering visualization, including embedded web servers, React-based interfaces, waveform and trend displays, and JSON/XML APIs, ensuring accurate presentation of energy and power quality data and secure access to product functionality.
  • Lead investigations, research, and prototyping to resolve complex system issues, evaluate emerging technologies, and guide roadmap decisions; collaborate with quality, manufacturing, and customer-facing teams to implement verified corrective actions for field and production issues.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience developing energy meters, power quality analyzers, branch-circuit monitoring systems, or related power distribution products for data center, industrial, and commercial applications.
  • Experience implementing high-precision measurement algorithms and advanced power quality functions, including waveform capture, harmonic analysis, anomaly detection, circuit health monitoring, and high-rate sample streaming.
  • Experience integrating current and voltage sensing technologies, including Rogowski coils and DC sensing, with knowledge of ADC interfacing, sampling theory, phase compensation, noise mitigation, and analog front-end behavior.
  • Experience with embedded Linux, FreeRTOS, or Zephyr; MCU/MPU architectures; BSP/HAL and driver development; interprocess communications; and Yocto-based build environments.
  • Experience with industrial and connected-device protocols such as Modbus, BACnet, CAN, EtherNet/IP, GOOSE, SNMP, MQTT, and AMQP, together with TCP/UDP networking and NTP/PTP time synchronization.
  • Experience integrating embedded applications with Eaton’s proprietary platform or comparable connected-product platforms, including APIs, logging, event engines, and data services.
  • Familiarity with embedded web servers and metering visualization using React, component-based architectures, Highcharts or similar libraries, and JSON/XML interfaces.

About the Company

Eaton

Power management leader for electrical systems

Eaton designs and sells electrical power management products and services for data centers, utilities, aerospace, and other industries. It provides hardware like switches, circuit breakers, transformers, and distribution equipment, plus software and services to monitor, protect, and optimize power flow from generation to end use. It combines an end-to-end power management portfolio with a long history of acquisitions to be a broad, globally integrated provider. Its goal is to enable reliable, efficient, and safe electrification across industries by improving energy management and resilience.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Dublin, Ireland
Founded
1911

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