Development Engineer:- System Validation Solar

About Signify

Through bold discovery and cutting-edge innovation, we lead an industry that is vital for the future of our planet: lighting. Through our leadership in connected lighting and the Internet of Things, we're breaking new ground in data analytics, AI, and smart solutions for homes, offices, cities, and beyond.

At Signify, you can shape tomorrow by building on our incredible 125+ year legacy while working toward even bolder sustainability goals. Our culture of continuous learning, creativity, and commitment to diversity and inclusion empowers you to grow your skills and career.

Join us, and together, we’ll transform our industry, making a lasting difference for brighter lives and a better world. 

More about the role

Designs, validates, and integrates complex solar system solutions by ensuring seamless interaction between hardware, firmware, and system components. Responsible for system-level validation, debugging, and performance optimization to ensure robustness, reliability, and compliance with global application requirements. Collaborates closely with cross-functional teams to ensure successful end-to-end system integration and product readiness.

• Specialized in system validation and system integration for solar solutions. Validates and optimizes complete systems, ensuring reliable interaction between hardware, firmware, and IoT components under real-world operating conditions.
  
• Responsible for end-to-end system testing, including validation, debugging, and performance analysis of solar power systems, embedded hardware, and integrated subsystems.
• Works closely with hardware, firmware, and quality teams to identify, analyze, and resolve system-level issues, ensuring robust and stable product performance.
• Defines and executes validation plans, test protocols, and system qualification criteria aligned with product requirements and industry standards.
• Applies latest learnings, field feedback insights, and best practices to improve validation strategies and system reliability.
• Works with an outside-in perspective, understanding customer use cases, environmental conditions, and global market requirements, ensuring system robustness for diverse applications, including public and government tenders.
• Drives system-level validation of solar solutions, including power electronics behavior, battery systems, firmware interactions, and IoT connectivity.
• Ensures proper documentation of validation reports, test results, root cause analysis (RCA), and corrective actions.
• Contributes to continuous improvement of validation processes, methodologies, and tools.
• Supports cross-functional system integration activities, including coordination with global teams (e.g., SNS, platform teams) to ensure smooth product deployment.
• Depending on grade, contributes to system architecture discussions and integration strategies.
• Depending on grade, mentors team members on validation practices, debugging approaches, and system-level problem solving.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electronics Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field, with strong fundamentals in power electronics and embedded systems.
• Proven experience in system validation and testing of solar power systems, including power electronics, battery systems, and embedded platforms.
• Hands-on experience in system integration, debugging, and failure analysis across hardware and firmware domains.
• Experience with embedded hardware validation, system-level testing, and performance analysis under different operating conditions.
• Understanding of firmware interaction with hardware systems (good to have).
• Experience working with IoT-enabled systems and field-level validation scenarios is an advantage.
• Strong capability in root cause analysis (RCA), reliability validation, and system troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with validation standards, test methodologies, and industry practices in solar or power electronics domain.
• Ability to work in cross-functional and global environments, coordinating effectively with R&D, quality, and platform teams.

Everything we’ll do for you

You can grow a lasting career here. We’ll encourage you, support you, and challenge you. We’ll help you learn and progress in a way that’s right for you, with coaching and mentoring along the way. We’ll listen to you too, because we see and value every one of our 27,000+ people. We believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace fosters creativity, innovation, and a full spectrum of bright ideas. With a global workforce present in 70+ countries, we are dedicated to creating an inclusive environment where every voice is heard and valued, helping us all achieve more together. 

Come join us, and together we can light up the future.