Embedded System Engineer at Plentify

About the job
About Plentify

• Plentify is a smart energy company that makes affordable, reliable and clean electricity a reality for all.
• Our team fuses advanced hardware, artificial intelligence and user-centric design to create smart home products that delight our customers and strengthen electricity systems for everyone.
• Our flagship product, HotBot, connects to electric water heaters and transforms them into intelligent batteries which slash electricity costs, enable clean energy, and lay the smart foundation for a reliable and affordable electricity system.

Plentify is a multi-award winning startup. We are first prize winners of the 2018 African Entrepreneurship Awards and the 2019 EDF Pulse Africa energy startup competition for Southern Africa, awardees of Columbia University’s Tamer Fund for Social Ventures, and Echoing Green Climate Fellows.
Our team includes the former leaders of Google’s Africa energy business, Vitality’s North American insurtech business, and IBM Research’s African energy team, the Director of Product at Facebook’s Libra, and engineers who have built IoT devices deployed in tens of thousands of African homes.
About the role

The Embedded Systems Engineer will contribute to developing the stable, maintainable and flexible firmware system that underlies our products. The candidate will have the opportunity to learn from engineers with years of experience in industry leading software and firmware development practices. The candidate will leverage his/her/their skills to perform work in the following areas:

• Feature development: developing firmware features to further enhance our product
• Maintenance: identifying and fixing bugs in the existing code base
• R&D: experimenting with new hardware and developing new sensors and products
• Remuneration will be commensurate with experience, and may include equity in Plentify. The role is work-from-anywhere, but you’ll find debugging tools and many of your colleagues at our office in Cape Town. Plentify also offers several exciting benefits like unlimited vacation.

Required skills and qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years of work experience in embedded software development.
• Strong and relevant technical foundation, for example with a degree towards Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or Computer Science
• Experience with embedded C99 development at a low level, as well as an in-depth understanding of the capabilities and limitations of microcontrollers
• Understanding of electronics and the hardware debugging skills required to fully debug any aspect of the firmware. This includes experience with oscilloscopes, logic analysers, multimeters and surface mount soldering.
• Experience with agile software development including git and kanban is a plus.
• Experience with Microchip PIC32 is a plus.