Certification Manager

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Position Title: Certification Manager
Department: Inverter Firmware
Compensation: $87,000 - $135,000 + annual bonus
Reports To: Director of Digital Inverter Firmware
Location: Kitchener, ON (onsite)

You are a certification and compliance leader who thrives on bringing complex power electronics and energy products to market. You understand how standards, grid codes, safety requirements, controls, firmware, and validation all come together to create a certified product. Comfortable working with engineering teams, test laboratories, certification bodies, and customers, you know how to turn regulatory requirements into actionable plans, identify risks before they become problems, and drive products from concept to approval.

Most importantly, you're excited by the opportunity to help build the next generation of North American inverter, PCS, and BESS technology that will shape the future of the grid.

CS Digital is a digital technology startup focused on providing state-of-the-art digital technology for power solutions. Our first goal is to build a North American based inverter control board, firmware and energy station controller for the BESS industry to compliment Canadian Solar’s String Power Conversion System Medium Voltage Skid for the Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) industry.

As Certification Manager, you will own the certification, compliance, and grid-code strategy for the next generation of North American inverter, PCS, and energy storage technologies. Acting as the bridge between engineering innovation and market approval, you will lead products from concept through certification, ensuring hardware, firmware, and control systems meet global safety, performance, and regulatory requirements. You will work closely with controls, firmware, hardware, validation, quality, manufacturing, and third-party certification bodies to translate complex standards into actionable engineering requirements, drive testing and issue resolution, manage compliance risk, and deliver products that can be confidently deployed on utility-scale projects worldwide.

This role is critical to shaping the future of CS Digital's technology platform and enabling the successful commercialization of industry-leading BESS and power conversion solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Lead certification planning and execution for PCS, inverter control boards, firmware, energy station controllers, and related BESS products.

• Build the certification roadmap, including standards scope, test plans, lab engagement, documentation, schedule, risks, and approval milestones.

• Interpret UL, IEC, CSA, IEEE, NEC/NFPA, and regional grid-code requirements and convert them into engineering and validation actions.

• Coordinate submissions, construction reviews, witness testing, corrective actions, and final reports with NRTLs, labs, consultants, suppliers, and internal teams.

• Maintain traceability among requirements, HIL/lab test results, firmware releases, and certification submission packages.

• Prepare and review compliance matrices, technical files, test reports, manuals, declarations, product labels, and evidence folders.

• Support…