Power Electronics Controls Engineer
Daanaa
Date: 2 hours ago
City: Vancouver, BC
Contract type: Full time
About Us
Daanaa is a Vancouver-based fabless power electronics and semiconductor company on a mission to build a simpler, efficient future in energy generation, storage, distribution, consumption, and management, for generations ahead. The company is in the early commercialization stages of deep tech power conversion and control technologies, offering innovative solutions to OEMs in multiple industries, including solar energy, electric vehicles, and data centers.
Daanaa's value is derived from its transformative Power Transaction Unit (PTU) that consolidates power electronic functions—from bi-directional conversion and amplification to management, transfer, diagnostics, and control—onto a single, high-power-density, high-efficiency, low-profile, scalable, reliable, and safe module. At Daanaa, we are building a world of Energy Untethered
We are growing here at Daanaa and are looking for a Power Electronics Controls Engineer to join our R&D team. In this role, you will develop and design breakthrough control technologies for next generation power conversion and power processing architectures, emphasizing control science as a strategic differentiator in performance, and product innovation. You will work alongside world-class engineers to transform advanced research into scalable technologies that shape the future of power electronics.
What you’ll be doing:
Advanced Control Architecture & Algorithm Development
Daanaa is a Vancouver-based fabless power electronics and semiconductor company on a mission to build a simpler, efficient future in energy generation, storage, distribution, consumption, and management, for generations ahead. The company is in the early commercialization stages of deep tech power conversion and control technologies, offering innovative solutions to OEMs in multiple industries, including solar energy, electric vehicles, and data centers.
Daanaa's value is derived from its transformative Power Transaction Unit (PTU) that consolidates power electronic functions—from bi-directional conversion and amplification to management, transfer, diagnostics, and control—onto a single, high-power-density, high-efficiency, low-profile, scalable, reliable, and safe module. At Daanaa, we are building a world of Energy Untethered
We are growing here at Daanaa and are looking for a Power Electronics Controls Engineer to join our R&D team. In this role, you will develop and design breakthrough control technologies for next generation power conversion and power processing architectures, emphasizing control science as a strategic differentiator in performance, and product innovation. You will work alongside world-class engineers to transform advanced research into scalable technologies that shape the future of power electronics.
What you’ll be doing:
Advanced Control Architecture & Algorithm Development
- Architect and develop advanced control solutions for novel power converter and inverter topologies, enabling next-generation power transfer methods.
- Design and implement nonlinear, predictive, adaptive, model-based, and distributed control algorithms to maximize system performance, efficiency, robustness, and reliability.
- Lead control-topology co-design to optimize converter architectures, switching strategies, and overall system performance.
- Develop control-oriented behavioral, circuit, and dynamic system models to analyze converter performance across a wide range of operating conditions.
- Perform stability analysis, compensation design, dynamic interaction studies, and system optimization for advanced power conversion systems.
- Establish modeling and stability frameworks that support scalable control architecture development and technology validation.
- Validate control concepts through simulation, hardware-in-the-loop (HIL), rapid prototyping, and proof-of-principle demonstrations.
- Collaborate with power electronics, semiconductor, systems, and embedded engineering teams to co-optimize converter architectures, devices, and control strategies.
- Translate advanced control concepts from research into scalable technology platforms and commercial product development.
- Provide technical leadership in the development and integration of next-generation power conversion technologies.
- Generate proprietary control innovations and contribute to Daanaa's intellectual property portfolio through patents and novel control methodologies.
- You have 10+ years of experience in power electronics, control systems, or related fields
- You have strong expertise in nonlinear, predictive, adaptive, or model-based control for power electronics
- You have experience developing dynamic system models, stability analysis, and compensation techniques
- You have hands-on experience implementing real-time control on DSPs, MCUs, or FPGA-based platforms using C/C++
- You are proficient with simulation tools and validation techniques, including hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) and rapid prototyping
- You have experience developing control solutions for high-performance power conversion systems
- You have a demonstrated track record of innovation through patents, publications, or breakthrough algorithm development
- You are comfortable collaborating across multidisciplinary engineering teams
- You hold an M.S. or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Power Electronics, Control Systems, or a related discipline
- Daanaa’s compensation package is based on a pay-for-performance philosophy that recognizes exceptional individual and team performance. The typical salary range for this position is from $100,000 - $140,000 annually. This may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills and experience.
- Extended Health and Dental Benefits
- Wellness and Spending Account
- Professional Development Benefit
- We help each other succeed – we all have a part to play, and we know that our individual success influences company success. Daanaa is just as committed to your career growth as it is to achieve its own company growth. We see these as mutually inclusive.
- Our work environment is filled with high-quality, driven individuals where everyone is a dedicated, engaged, and accountable decision-maker.
- We love what we do and consider Daanaa a strong competitor for the all-around best start-up environment: creative, educational, challenging, and united towards the positive change that our tech can create.
- We’re a diverse bunch! From our skillsets and expertise to the places that we have come from. Our expertise includes innovations in electrical and mechanical engineering disciplines, and a collection of business disciplines at varying experience levels.
- Daanaa workdays begin and end by our values: curiosity, trust, hungry, accountability.
- Curiosity: We are naturally curious people who believe that the answer to a question should be followed by asking "why?". Our office is often filled with enthusiastic discussions about the latest books, podcasts, or documentaries we consumed.
- Hunger: We joyfully choose to be here every day because we are driven with ambition by the difference we make.
- Accountability: We follow through, are precise about our aim, manage our resources wisely, bravely own our mistakes, and report honestly.
- Trust: The foundation of our teamwork is trust. With trust, we communicate freely, have compassion for each other, and work and live with everyone's best interests at heart.
- You value professional and personal growth at all levels of an organization.
- You are looking for internal advancement opportunities as a high-performing individual.
- You are looking to experience working in a fast-growth start-up in Vancouver’s high-tech sector.
- You desire to work alongside a team of passionate, heart-warming, and intelligent team members.
- You have big goals. We aren't for the faint of heart.
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