Staff Firmware Engineer
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Job Location:
Christchurch - New Zealand
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
10-11-2025
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Department:
Job Summary
Description
Enphase Energy is a global energy technology company and a leading provider of solar battery and electric vehicle charging products. Founded in 2006 our innovative microinverter technology revolutionized solar power making it a safer more reliable and scalable energy source. Today the Enphase Energy System enables users to make use save and sell their own power. Enphase is also one of the most successful and innovative clean energy companies in the world with more than 80 million products shipped across 160 countries.
Join our dynamic teams designing and developing next-gen energy technologies and help drive a sustainable future!
Enphase is seeking a highly effective and driven Firmware Engineer to join our high performing team based at our Research and Development Center located in 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.
Role/Duties:
- Work on new microinverter developments and variants through the product lifecycle.
- Work with cross-functional teams of hardware firmware system and test automationengineers.
- Specify and design embedded FW written in C and C on bare metal and Zephyr RTOS environments.
- Design and maintain build systems based on CMake and Gnu Make.
- Debug firmware using SWD tools.
- Verify and test using automation scripts written in Python.
- Specify engineering requirements create test plans and generate test reports.
- Provide technical mentoring to junior engineers.
Qualification and Previous Experience:
- Bachelor Masters or PhD in Electrical Engineering or equivalent
- 10 years experience in industry
What would make you stand out
- Proven performance in a similar role in a Research and Development environment.
- Familiar with ARM Cortex M4 and RISC V processors.
- Proficient in ARMCC and GCC for ARM tool chains
- Strong problem-solving skills with a focus on practical effective solutions.
- Familiarity with automated test scripts/setups using Python.
- Experience with power electronics systems.
- Ability to read and understand circuit schematics.
- Experience working with global teams.
- Experience with solar inverters.
Employee Benefits:
- Restricted stock units as part of your total compensation
- Bonus plan
- Wellbeing and insurance benefits for you and your family
- Annual performance reviews
- Opportunities for career growth and development
- Working in a well-equipped laboratory and facility
Visa Requirements:
Enphase Energy NZ is currently only considering candidates for this role with New Zealand permanent residency or citizenship.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Key Skills
- Embedded Software
- Robotics
- Arm
- Firmware
- Debugging
- C/C++
- Zigbee
- OS Kernels
- Signal Processing
- Ethernet
- Assembly
- Internet Of Things
About Company
Enphase is a global energy management technology company that provides residential and commercial solar plus storage solutions. We manufacture solutions spanning solar generation, energy storage, and web-based monitoring and control.
