Power Electronics Firmware Developer

dcbel Inc. ( is a growing company developing technology and designing products that will make clean, efficient, and sustainable energy accessible to all — because everyone in the world deserves energy without compromise.

dcbel at the leading edge of the residential energy revolution, enabling decentralized energy consumption and production through its vertically integrated suite of energy hardware and software products, and their supporting infrastructure. Our flagship product, the dcbel Home Energy Station, is a small wall mounted device that gives everyone ownership over their energy supply by using solar power to charge their EV and home, unlocking their EV’s battery for backup power (V2H), and optimizing the energy flow between their solar panels, EVs, backup battery and the grid.

The opportunity

dcbel is looking to hire a power electronics firmware developer to work in our growing team. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in developing, improving, and maintaining power electronics firmware in our products. The firmware developer will develop and deliver software modules for bare metal Ti C2000 platforms. 

Main responsibilities

• Design and write software modules to manage and control energy-centric hardware peripherals.


• Perform initial bring up of new PCB designs.
  


• Promote good software engineering practices through design and code reviews.


• Optimize firmware for speed and troubleshoot problems based on user feedback.

Key requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Electrical or Software engineering


• Minimum 5 years of professional (non-academic) experience delivering projects on TI C2000 microcontrollers using embedded C++ on bare metal programming
  


• Experience debugging and tuning Power electronics or motor control software, from data acquisition and pre-processing, to control loops, to driving the switching nodes.
  


• Experience working in hardware and/or electrical and/or electronic engineering lab


• Experience working high volume deployed firmware consumer products
  


• Demonstrate a high level of detailed expertise and experience with TI C2000 devices, and key embedded peripherals: SDFM, ePWM, C28x Core, CLA, CLB.
  


• Proven ability to learn and adopt existing software architecture and improve through testing and iteration
  


• Proven ability to troubleshoot technical problems with hardware and software

Bonus skills

• Bilingual English and French
  


• Code published in public domain, e.g. gitlab or github (non-academic)


• Hobbyist in electronics or power electronics


• Ability to tune control algorithms on simulation software and port to microcontrollers in a deployed product using Matlab
  


• Familiarity with residential electrical installations, EV charging protocols and solar energy 
  

Profile

• Autonomous, entrepreneurial mindset, result oriented and strong EQ 
  

What's in it for you

• Be part of a company that is backed by numerous globally respected investors and has world-changing patents in an industry changing for the first time in history.


• Grow your professional experience amongst blue chip partners and a close-knit team of committed and experienced energy experts who deeply care about the work they do.


• Full benefits package including Health insurance, Health virtual care, employee stock options plan (ESOP) and flexible hours. Parking available or with our employer commute program a short walking distance from Metro Namur.