OPAL-RT TECHNOLOGIES

Engineer

• Propose and execute power electronic engineering and R&D projects
• Support technical, business development, and sales teams with specialized expertise in power electronics real-time simulation
• Mentor the technical team to raise skill levels in power electronics real-time simulation
• Provide feedback on and support pre-release testing and validation of OPAL-RT’s power electronics tools
• Write and present technical papers on power electronics simulation

R&D Engineer – Power Electronics Simulation

Full-stack Engineer

• Participate in work planning and organization
• Develop and maintain board drivers for OPAL-RT’s RT-LAB and HYPERSIM software
• Define, implement, and validate new card drivers and communication protocols
• Add features, improve performance, and fix potential issues in existing drivers
• Integrate drivers into RT-LAB and HYPERSIM
• Test card drivers
• Write technical documentation
• Update and maintain CPU–FPGA communication interfaces using C/C++
• Develop and maintain communication protocols based on industrial standards using C/C++
• Develop and maintain higher-level graphical configuration interfaces using C++/Java
• Integrate low-level software drivers for third-party hardware using C/C++
• Participate in code reviews
• Provide customer support as required

Software Developer – Drivers

Business Development Rep

• Promote and sell OPAL-RT solutions to academic and industrial accounts, with a focus on the energy sector
• Initiate and manage complex sales cycles, including generating and qualifying opportunities, negotiating and closing sales at the highest level
• Analyze, identify and implement strategies to develop new business opportunities
• Define and execute strategic plans to approach, access and develop new accounts
• Prospect and make cold calls to targeted customers
• Develop and maintain business relationships with existing clients
• Present and demonstrate products and services
• Prepare and submit value-added technical and commercial proposals
• Leverage business partners to identify ways to contact and approach existing and potential customers
• Participate in conferences, tradeshows and events
• Respond to customer and prospect requests using internal resources, including pre-sales, R&D and general management
• Travel to customer sites and tradeshows up to 35% of the time

Business Development Manager – Energy

• Design, develop, and maintain internal tools related to build systems and software packaging
• Evolve and improve the compilation pipelines and build systems used by R&D teams
• Diagnose and resolve complex issues related to builds, dependencies, compilers, and development environments
• Improve build reliability, performance, and reproducibility
• Collaborate with the Architecture Office on the design and evolution of the build system
• Collaborate with R&D teams on their build systems, dependencies, and delivery constraints
• Integrate build and packaging systems with the company’s CI/CD platforms
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of internal tools

Software Developer – Build Systems

• Participate in defining, implementing, and improving product architecture
• Design and implement innovative solutions that meet real-time performance requirements
• Develop features for a large-scale real-time electrical grid simulation platform
• Collaborate with electrical grid simulation specialists to deliver high-quality solutions to internal and external customers
• Comply with established quality standards
• Collaborate as part of a team in an Agile environment
• Work within the CPU & Cloud Division on state-of-the-art simulation tools
• Support engineering firms, power producers, transmission and distribution system operators, and universities

Real-Time C++ Software Developer

QA Automation Engineer

• Develop and maintain automated tests in a continuous integration environment (45%)
• Reproduce, analyze, and document issues through the required hardware and software procedures (30%)
• Monitor, analyze, and stabilize automated tests to ensure reliability (15%)
• Propose and implement improvements to testing tools and infrastructure (10%)
• Work as part of the electronic board driver and communication protocol development team
• Collaborate closely with team members
• Develop knowledge of communication protocols, including IEC 61850, Modbus, CAN, DNP3, C37.118, ARINC 429, IEEE 1588, and PROFINET
• Perform hands-on hardware tasks, such as installing electronic boards, replacing processors, and taking electrical measurements with an oscilloscope

Quality Assurance Automation Developer

Analyst

• Participate in the modeling, control, and real-time simulation of power converters and power-system circuits using CPUs and FPGAs
• Maintain and develop MMC/VSC, HVDC, and FACTS libraries in MATLAB/Simulink and HYPERSIM
• Participate in all design, development, testing, packaging, and documentation phases for new OPAL-RT MMC/HVDC library features and solvers
• Work primarily with Simulink, SimPower Systems, Xilinx Blockset, RT-LAB, and HYPERSIM
• Design, model, control, and simulate customized power converters and power-system circuits
• Participate in client projects by modeling power-converter topologies and developing interfaces between controllers and converter simulators
• Research innovative product-development design options
• Write technical papers for conferences and journals
• Collaborate with team members to deliver complete and functional solutions
• Work under the supervision of the Team Leader in an agile environment