Do you want to take part in developing the most innovative pumps in the world? Are you ready to work with the best-in-class colleagues within embedded industrial products?

We are taking platform development and continuous integration to the next level in Grundfos. Want to join us and help build our team, working with the latest technologies in advanced controller products? If you wish to develop your skills, this is your chance to challenge the organization to apply broad subject matter expert knowledge with a high degree of technical/business insight across product/solutions development and digital offerings.

What is the job about?

Develop and enhance the features in the Grundfos pumps and drives to ensure that we continue having the world best products by developing embedded software in close collaboration with the other developers using our common software platform. Have a holistic view of team delivery and dependencies. We work in an agile environment where flexibility is a natural thing as well as the ability to plan your own.

Your main tasks will be :

- Develop applications based on VFDs

- Collaborate with system architects and automation engineers to integrate VFDs with PLCs, HMIs, SCADA, and IoT platforms.

- Conduct application development testing, validation, and troubleshooting in lab environments.

SW architecture & Governance :

- Contribute to enhancements of existing reference architecture and framework

- Contribute to architecture process & governance

- Identify and implement best practices with respect to architecture

- Unit test development and test of new software and products to the full value chain

- Quality improvement on existing software, bug fixing and test

- Proactive to build and share knowledge (agile, process, technical) to team to improve together.

- Reach out to colleagues, guide them so the development process is enhanced as well as the products are becoming more innovative

Test architecture & governance :

- Contribute to enhancements of existing test architecture and framework

- Contribute to test governance

- Identify tools based on application domain complexity and needs

- Process implementation

- Identify and implement best practices in the team with respect to test

Product/System Development :

- Support test set-up and maintenance.

- Test plan / test case / test environment preparation

- Drive and develop re-usable test scripts

- End-to-end System Testing

- Field issues support

- Test automation

- Configuration management

- Ensure test beds are operational in line with CI framework

Your background :

- Bachelors/Masters degree in engineering with minimum 4 to maximum 15 years in VFD application engineering

- Hands-on experience with VFDs specifically from industrial manufacturing companies

- Strong understanding of motor types (induction, synchronous) and their operational characteristics

- Proficiency in configuring VFDs for various load types and duty cycles.

- Familiarity with industrial communication protocols and control system integration

- Ability to read and interpret electrical schematics and control diagrams

Required Skills & Experience :

- Strong expertise in C programming and microcontroller architectures

- Experience with RTOS (such as FreeRTOS, Threadx etc..)

- Limited experience in embedded software development

- Knowledge of debugging tools like JTAG, oscilloscope, and logic analyzer

- Stay updated on the latest VFD technologies, communication protocols (Modbus, EtherNet/IP, PROFINET), and industry trends

- Experience with energy efficiency projects or predictive maintenance using VFD data

- Knowledge of scripting or automation tools for VFD configuration and diagnostics

- Exposure to digital twin or simulation tools for motor applications.

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

- Familiarity with software version control tools like Git

- Excellent communication and documentation abilities

Do you want to learn more?

- This position is based out of Chennai.

- We look forward to hearing from you.