Senior Engineer, Firmware
📌Christchurch, New Zealand 🇳🇿
⏱︎ full-time
🧙♂️ senior
Enphase Energy is a global energy technology company and leading provider of solar, battery, and electric vehicle charging products. Founded in 2006, Enphase transformed the solar industry with our revolutionary microinverter technology, which turns sunlight into a safe, reliable, resilient, and scalable source of energy to power our lives. Today, the Enphase Energy System helps people make, use, save, and sell their own power. Enphase is also one of the fastest growing and innovative clean energy companies in the world, with approximately 68 million products installed across more than 145 countries.
We are building teams that are designing, developing, and manufacturing next-generation energy technologies and our work environment is fast-paced, fun and full of exciting new projects.
If you are passionate about advancing a more sustainable future, this is the perfect time to join Enphase!
About the role:
Enphase is seeking a highly effective and driven Senior Firmware Engineer to join our high-performing Research and Development Center located in Middleton, Christchurch.
You will be working in a team of engineers who are tasked to design, enhance and test the latest generation of our power converter and energy storage product range.
What you will do:
- Designing and implementing embedded software for real-time operation and control.
- Simulating new algorithms for autonomous microgrid power flow management.
- Developing unit and system test software.
- Validating algorithms using system simulation tools.
- Working with hardware engineers to test and troubleshoot prototype designs.
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Firmware testing.
- Expertise in C++, C, and Assembly for real-time applications.
- Able to understand and implement digital signal processing (DSP) concepts in a microprocessor environment.
- Familiarity with evaluating CPU versus hardware processing requirements and trade-offs for cost-effective designs.
- Ability to troubleshoot firmware related issues within complex systems.
- Ability to test code and hardware both with and without external test equipment such as oscilloscopes, power meters, etc.
- Familiarity with software development processes. E.g. Agile, Structured, Object Oriented, etc.
- Familiarity with development tools such as GCC, GDB, Eclipse, GNU Make, etc.
- Familiarity with software code management tools such as GIT, Mercurial, etc.
- Ability to carry a design task from concept to implementation.
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Ability to document engineering requirements, document solutions, and test new firmware designs.
- B.Eng in electrical, mechatronic, computing or equivalent.
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5 + years related experience
- Experience implementing systems compliant to JEM1498 or other Japanese standards
- Proven performance, in a similar role, in a Research and Development environment.
- Exposure to interrupt services and drivers in embedded software control.
- Experience with power electronics systems.
- Experience with solar inverters.
- Experience with 32-bit ARM processors and 8-bit 8051 processors.
- Experience with UL1741, IEEE1547 and other solar-related standards.
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Familiarity with automated test scripts/setups, using Python.
Enphase Energy New Zealand is located in Wigram, Christchurch. We are a Research and Development Centre focused on the design and testing of our cornerstone product, the Microinverter. Enphase New Zealand has a team of around 130 plus engineers and support staff.
About Enphase Energy
Enphase Energy is a multi-national company with many global locations, sales and marketing, operations, research and development facilities.
Find out more:
https://enphase.com/en-au
Employee Benefits:
- Stock as part of your total compensation.
- Bonus plan.
- Well-being and insurance benefits for you and your family.
- Annual performance reviews
- Opportunities for career growth and development
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Working in a well-equipped laboratory and facility
Enphase Energy NZ is currently only considering candidates for this role with New Zealand permanent residency or citizenship.
Senior Embedded Software Engineer
@ Embedd 
What we're looking for
At embedd.it, we power hardware-software integration in embedded devices. We turn fragmented semiconductor chip data into configurable digital twins, then deterministically generate code, tests, and documentation – making integration faster, cheaper, and resilient to supply chain shocks.
We’re looking for a true legend – someone with abstract thinking and deep expertise in low-level software development. You’ll build vendor-agnostic tooling for MCU and peripheral integration to solve hardware-software integration once and for all. We work at the intersection of embedded systems, code generation, compilers, and machine learning. It’s your chance to help redefine how low-level development is done.
Responsibilities
- Drive the architecture of the driver structures and system layout
- Define scalable patterns for cross-architectural integration across bare-metal, Zephyr, Linux, and other environments
- Deconstruct complex SoC device trees and translate hardware descriptions into structured internal models for automated reasoning
- Partner with the ML team to shape data and annotation models for AI-driven data-extraction tooling
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in embedded systems development, including bare-metal and RTOS-based systems
- Proficiency in C/C++
- Familiarity with firmware configuration, SoC bring-up, and system-level debugging
- Hands-on experience with code generation tools, or low-level compiler/decompiler/emulator technologies
- Strong background in embedded toolchains: compilers, linkers, debuggers, and build systems
- Python or scripting for automation and tooling is a plus
- Experience with functional-safety standards is a plus
Why embedd.it?
- Dynamic, venture-backed team of engineers challenging the status quo 🚀
- Work at the intersection of embedded systems, code generators, compilers, and ML 🤖
- Unusual challenges requiring out-of-the-box abstract thinking 🧠
- Competitive compensation: cash + equity 💰
- Remote work possible 🌍
About Us
embedd.it is a UK-based startup reinventing embedded development. Our platform transforms unstructured semiconductor data into structured digital twins, enabling automatic generation of drivers, tests, and documentation. We're building a single, traceable source of truth to make integration fast, vendor-agnostic, and future-proof.
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