Embedded Firmware Developer

dcbel Inc. (www.dcbel.energy) designs and sells residential products to make clean, efficient, and sustainable energy accessible to all — because everyone in the world deserves energy without compromise.

dcbel is at the leading edge of the residential energy revolution. Its products enable decentralized energy consumption and production through its vertically integrated suite of energy hardware and software products, and their supporting infrastructure.

Our flagship product, dcbel Ara, is a Home Energy Station that gives everyone ownership over their energy supply by using solar power to charge their EV and power their home, unlocking their EV’s battery for blackout protection, backup power (V2H) and grid services (V2G), and optimizing the energy flow between their solar panels, EVs, stationary battery and the grid.

The opportunity

dcbel is looking to hire a firmware developer to work in our growing team. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in developing, improving, and maintaining firmware in our products. The firmware developer will develop and deliver software modules for our current bare metal STM32 platforms as well as our iMX6 Yocto based custom Linux distribution designs.

Main Responsibilities 

• Write software modules to manage and control Home Energy Station product across multiple electronic boards.
• Develop and improve drivers and business logic to drive power converters, home energy station peripherals such as Electric Vehicle and stationary home batteries and solar inverters.
• Perform initial bring up of new PCB designs.
• Promote good software engineering practices through design and code reviews.

Key Requirements 

• Bachelors in Engineering and ideally dual diploma in both Electrical and Software engineering
  
• At least 3 years of professional (non-academic) experience delivering projects on STM32 or other ARM-based microcontrollers using embedded C/C++ on bare metal programming
• At least 3 years of professional (non-academic) experience delivering projects based on Yocto framework for building custom Linux distributions
• Experiences with C and C++ application programming in an embedded context
• Recent experience working in hardware and/or electrical and/or electronic engineering lab
  
• Candidate must be able to demonstrate:
  • A high level of detailed expertise and experience in one of the following microcontroller architectures and common hardware busses and peripherals: ADC, I2C, SPI, CAN, PWM, RS232, RS485
  • An ability to learn and adopt existing software architecture and improve through testing and iteration
  • Ability to troubleshoot technical problems with hardware and software
    

Bonus Skills

• Experience with Poco C++ project
• Code published in public domain, e.g. gitlab or github (non-academic)
• Familiarity with EV charging protocols, BMSes, photovoltaic panels and the integration of these devices
• Bilingual English and French written and spoken.

Profile

• Open minded and good team worker personality
• Hobbyist in electronics or power electronics
• Entrepreneurial mindset, result oriented and strong EQ.
• Autonomous, good teammate with strong problem-solving skills.
  

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.