Job Title:  Lead Embedded Engineering I

Job Purpose

Alpha Technologies Ltd. has an opportunity for a knowledgeable, proactive Lead Embedded Engineering to lead a high-performing team of engineers developing firmware for our power conversion systems at our Vancouver (Burnaby) facility.

As a Lead Embedded Engineering at a fast-paced organization, you will be a key member of a cross-functional leadership team tasked with designing and developing reliable, fault-tolerant, and cost-effective power conversion products from concept to production. 
If this resonates with you, we want to hear from you!

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

•    Primary duty is to design and develop power conversion products (Rectifiers, AC UPS, Converters, Inverters) from concept to production.
•    Develop detailed requirements and specifications based on product and system requirements, working in concert with project managers, technical leaders, manufacturing engineers, test engineers, and staff.
•    Design, write, and test firmware for embedded digital signal processors (DSPs) and systems-on-a-chip (SOICs) that directly control power conversion electronics at microsecond rates.
•    Write technical documents required by our development processes and standards.
•    Negotiate and manage expectations for product requirements and new product introduction timelines with Product Management and Sales.
•    Manage, coach, mentor and develop a team of talented individuals through regular one-on-one’s, and promoting continuous improvement, career development, growth and learning.
•    Monitor and schedule the development team workload to assign the appropriate resources to planned development programs and support sustaining engineering activities.
•    Manage day to day activities of team members, including resource planning, recruiting, and skill set balancing.
•    Provide input into product roadmaps with corresponding timeline creation.
•    Support the identification and implementation of future, breakthrough technologies that will improve the overall competitiveness and cost position of EnerSys’ Power Conversion products 
•    Contribute to the development of overall engineering department policy.
•    Directly manage the team, including personnel placement, employee relations, performance appraisals, discipline and termination, training, and career development

Qualifications

Education:
•    Bachelors or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering. 

Experience:
•    At least 7 years of previous and related experience specific to power conversion product design; at least 2 year of experience in leadership roles.
•    Solid engineering experience with power electronics design and product development with embedded microcontrollers.
•    Experience with sampled-data real-time control systems, specifically for power conversion or motor drive type applications.
•    Expertise in the fields of: 
o    Embedded firmware design.
o    Real-time process control.
o    Power electronics hardware with embedded microcontrollers.
o    Power conversion process, including signal processing and control algorithms.
o    Industrial protocols.
•    High proficiency in developing C language firmware for DSPs, GPPs and microprocessors/microcontrollers.
•    Experience with digital control interfaces such as SPI, I2C, and UART.
•    Experience with one or more communications protocols such as CAN, Modbus, USB, Ethernet.
•    Experience with embedded systems with and without RTOS.
•    Experience with testing and debugging embedded real-time software using specialized test and debug tools.

Desired Qualifications

•    Working knowledge with the use of electronic test equipment, such as oscilloscopes, power sources and loads, etc.
•    Experience with DSP, e.g. digital filter design and fixed-point arithmetic.
•    Experience with SoC peripherals such as ADC, PWM, comparators, etc.
•    Experience with concurrency in a single and multi-core environment.
•    Familiar with the Agile development process, SCRUM and experience in an R&D environment.
•    Significant modeling, simulation, and analysis experience with tools like Matlab/Simulink, SPICE, and PSIM.
 

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