Senior Firmware Developer

dcbel Inc. (www.dcbel.energy) 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 senior firmware developer to work on site full-time 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 and future TI C2000 based designs.

Main responsibilities

• Write software modules to manage and control Home Energy Station product across multiple electronic boards.
• Promote good software engineering practices through design and code reviews.
  
• Perform initial bring up of new PCB designs.

Key requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Electrical or Software engineering
• 5+ years of professional (non-academic) experience delivering projects on STM32 or other ARM-based microcontrollers using embedded C on bare metal programming
  
• Recent experience with board bring ups
• Recent experience working in hardware and/or electrical and/or electronic engineering lab
• 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
  

Bonus skills

• Bilingual English and French
  
• Experience with Yocto based embedded Linux development
• Experience with TI TMS C2000 a great asset
• Experience in power control design, implementation and testing (DC/DC buck/boost, DAB)
• Code published in public domain, e.g. gitlab or github (non-academic)
  

Profile

• Open minded and good team worker personality
• Hobbyist in electronics or power electronics
• Familiarity with EV charging protocols, BMSes, photovoltaic panels and the integration of these devices
• An ability to learn and adopt existing software architecture and improve through testing and iteration
• Ability to troubleshoot technical problems with hardware and software
  

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.