Embedded Firmware Architect

Eaton Corporation • Raleigh, NC

1d • $137,000 - $201,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

As an Embedded Firmware Architect, you will own the firmware architecture for Eaton’s next-generation and sustaining platforms across 3 phase UPS, energy transition, and EV charging product lines. You will set architectural direction, drive cross-platform consistency, and lead technical decisions that balance safety, performance, reliability, cybersecurity, and long-term maintainability. This role sets the firmware architectural direction for multiple CPS platforms and influences technology decisions across current and future product portfolios.
You will operate as a senior individual contributor with broad influence across global engineering teams, partnering closely with product, platform, controls, hardware, and verification teams.

Requirements

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in engineering
• Minimum twelve (12) years embedded software/firmware development experience with C/C++ in real-time systems.
• Minimum five (5) years architecting or leading firmware designs for complex embedded platforms (multi-team or multi-product).
• Minimum three (3) years’ experience with RTOS-based development (e.g., FreeRTOS, Zephyr).
• Minimum two (2) years’ experience with power electronics firmware (UPS, inverter/rectifier/DC‑DC controls, power conversion topologies)
• Eaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position. This means that Eaton will not support any CPT, OPT, or STEM OPT plans, F-1 to H-1B, H-1B cap registration, O-1, E-3, TN status, I-485 job portability, etc

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in engineering from an accredited institution
• Controls/power electronics algorithm integration experience (MATLAB/PLECS exposure beneficial)
• Experience with embedded Linux
• Understanding of analog and digital circuitry
• Experience in regulated cybersecurity environments and secure development practices
• Ability to understand low level hardware specifications and ability to read, interpret and understand hardware schematics
• Experience in three phase power systems, power electronics and power conversion topologies
• Ability to simulate, analyze, and troubleshoot using HIL systems
• Success profile
• Communicates complex technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders and builds alignment
• Leads through influence; establishes consistency across global teams without “command-and-control.”
• Brings architectural rigor without slowing delivery, focuses on what materially improves outcomes

Responsibilities

• Architecture ownership: Define and evolve firmware architecture for platform and product variants (3 phase UPS / power conversion / charging), including module boundaries, interfaces, and non-functional requirements (timing, determinism, reliability, safety, and maintainability).
• Technical leadership at scale: Lead architecture and design reviews; set engineering standards; and align practices across global regions and projects.
• Develop architectural capability across the organization by coaching senior engineers and architects, influencing technical decision making standards, and raising overall firmware maturity.
• Roadmap + release strategy: Partner with product/platform owners to shape requirements, establish platform roadmap, and drive sustaining releases and next-gen platform plans.
• Cross-functional integration: Work with controls experts to translate inverter/rectifier/DC DC control needs into robust embedded implementations; coordinate with hardware engineering to ensure hardware-software co-design.
• Cybersecurity by design: Partner with the Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (CCoE) to embed corporate security requirements into architecture and evidence readiness for cybersecurity audits.
• System verification strategy: Drive verification architecture (HIL/PIL strategy, design verification test planning, fault injection and diagnostics approach) working alongside V&V teams and ensure traceability from requirements to test evidence.
• Production-quality execution: When critical issues arise, lead deep technical investigations and guide the team to root cause and corrective action; ensure lessons learned turn into measurable process and product improvements.
• Serve as the architectural authority for embedded firmware across multiple product families, ensuring reuse and platform integrity while enabling product differentiation.
• Define architecture artifacts (architecture specification, interface contracts, design rationale, verification strategy) and enforce their use in the SDLC.
• Act as the escalation and decision authority for complex, cross platform firmware architecture decisions and technical trade offs
• Establish and evolve coding standards, configuration management, branching/release practices, and integration strategies for global teams.
• Ensure firmware design meets requirements for real-time control, reliability, and high-power lab validation needs (e.g., instrumentation, oscilloscopes, power analyzers).
• Keep current on embedded firmware practices and relevant industry standards; integrate pragmatic improvements into Eaton’s firmware processes.

Benefits

• Eaton provides various Health and Welfare benefits as well as Retirement benefits, and several programs that provide for paid and unpaid time away from work. Click here for more detail: Eaton Benefits Overview.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level