Senior Firmware Engineer I - Batteries

Summary

Join Axon and be a Force for Good. At Axon, we’re on a mission to Protect Life. We’re explorers, pursuing society’s most critical safety and justice issues with our ecosystem of devices and cloud software.

Responsibilities

• Implementation and verification of Firmware for Battery Safety logic
• Implementation and verification of Firmware for Battery Fuel-Gauging logic, including when working with multiple batteries that work together to create a composite Fuel Gauge 0 - 100% value
• Implementation and verification of Firmware for Accelerated Battery Charging with Thermal considerations
• Implementation and verification of Firmware for De-rating Batteries to achieve State of Health RMA targets
• Implementation and verification of Firmware for eLinux User-space daemons that override Power Management and leverage Qualcomm System-on-Chip PMICs
• Implement fleet-wide metrics of scale of 500K+ devices of Battery Data with Dashboards (Splunk), Metrics and Alerting with key ability to spot trends and remediate fleet-wide issues as needed
• Diagnose, debug and write accessible failure analysis reports with remediation steps to Leadership on critical products that have been RMA’d by Axon’s Customers
• Collaborate heavily with Battery Engineers in the Electrical Engineering on any/all Battery topics; including meetings with APAC Battery vendors
• Support Battery Runtime Profiling with breakdowns of any/all products supported by Axon both via Joulescopes and Automated Test Systems (ATS)
• Write concise Battery Test Plans for HW Verification and Validation Engineers
• Build and advance Axon R&D’s Automated Test Systems (ATS) that focus on Battery Profiling and Simulation
• Advance Axon R&D’s Battery Regression Automation posture to fullest extent possible as limited by hardware
• Support any/all Platform Firmware task across any program as-needed when no Battery-specific work is required at the time; including but not limited to C, C++, Golang, Python or Rust coding across Microcontrollers, System-on-Modules, System-on-Chips using eLinux, RTOS, GNSS, Wi-Fi, BLE, Sub-GHz, Cellular, etc. technologies for either Customer or Manufacturing Firmware
• Write and review Design Docs, Pull Requests, and contribute to the Team’s documentation bank
• Drive Engineering Excellence and adopt a test and metrics-first mindset
• Be a Team Player, Mentor, Strong Communicator and be ready and willing to support the Team when needed