Amperesand
Senior Firmware Manager
San Francisco, California, United States · Senior
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About the role
- Company Overview Amperesand is reinventing how the world powers its most critical systems.
- Electricity demand is skyrocketing, driven by AI factories, electric vehicles, and modern industrial growth.
- Energy supply is shifting to incorporate a more diverse mix of resources - including solar, gas, and batteries - at a massive scale.
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture, implementation, and quality of all firmware running on our converter and SST platforms.
- Lead firmware design reviews, safety analyses, and highlevel technical decisions
- Partner closely with Controls, Power Electronics, Electrical, and Systems teams to translate product and system requirements into clear firmware specifications
- Drive firmware delivery across multiple releases and hardware revisions
- Manage prioritization, sprint planning, and crossfunctional alignment with Hardware, Controls, Systems, and Manufacturing teams
- Own rootcause investigation for firmwarerelated issues in lab, field, and manufacturing environments
- Recruit, mentor, and develop a highperforming firmware engineering team
- Create growth paths, set expectations, and provide regular feedback
- Build a culture of ownership, collaboration, and technical curiosity
- Amperesand is building hardware and software that rewrites this broken power infrastructure playbook to support a new era of energy abundance.
Requirements
- 3+ years managing or leading firmware teams
- Strong experience with realtime control systems, safetycritical firmware, or power electronics
- 7+ years developing embedded firmware in C/C++ for realtime systems
Benefits
- Amperesand is led by breakthrough energy hardware development veterans and funded by top tier investors who share our vision of building a category-defining energy technology company.
Company info
- We are facing a once-in-a-generation opportunity for infrastructure disruption.
- Scalable in-house advanced manufacturing capability is our foundation for meeting timeline and quality expectation to serve infrastructure customers around the world.
- With hubs in San Francisco, Reno, and Singapore, our global team is laser focused on building foundational technology to solve the most pressing problems in power infrastructure at scale.
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