About Us

Are you looking for an opportunity to make a real difference in your next role?

At Basis, our purpose is to radically accelerate the clean-energy revolution - starting with smarter, safer, and more efficient homes. We’re focused on improving experiences for people through the application of technology, data, and a deep understanding of human behaviour.

Why? As a society, we need to decarbonise and accelerate the transition to alternative energy sources. Existing solutions are expensive and disparate, with limited functionality.

Basis is driven by purpose, real innovation, and ambition. We have a talented team spread across New Zealand, with a creative space by the beach in Takapuna, and a Design Lab in Christchurch where our physical products come to life. We're more than happy to take on someone who wants to work remotely from a different location across New Zealand too, or wants to relocate.

We recently closed our Series A capital raise, so we're well-funded and ready to grow. Our team is smart, curious and has some big goals - so if you’re interested in joining a fast-growing and startup that is design-led and puts people at its core, then we’d love to hear from you! 

We're also currently in stealth mode, so check out our website and we'll share more with you during the recruitment process 😁

The Role

We're looking to grow our Embedded Software team. You'll be helping us to extend our capabilities with your excellent software and signal processing skills, along with a great understanding of electronics and sensing. We have an existing team, systems outlines, concepts, functional prototypes, test setups, and scripts - and we need to resolve these to deliver a real product to market.

To be clear - you will not be polishing some ancient code or tinkering around the edges - this is a jump-in boots-and-all opportunity. This is a highly complex distributed IOT system - interfacing cloud connected systems containing complex processing, configuration, and control. If this sounds exciting to you, then keep reading.

Some of the things that you might be involved in include:

• Develop low-level drivers to interface with hardware. 
• Develop, debug and improve signal processing algorithms
• Work closely with other disciplines to develop, tune and verify sensor systems
• Developer unit tests and verify their own work
• Identify and clarify requirements
• Work collaboratively with the embedded chapter
• Work collaboratively with hardware, systems and verifications chapters
• Participate in code reviews

About You

We think you’ll be a fit for this role if have the following skills or experience:

• A tertiary qualification in Electronics Engineering and relevant industry experience (ideally, a minimum of 5 years)
• Embedded C/C++ programming experience, as well as experience with MATLAB, Python
• Experience developing low-level drivers for microcontroller peripherals
• Experience with unit testing, continuous integration and static analysis
• Electronics experience (analogue and magnetics)
• Experience developing in a real-time operating system, such as FreeRTOS or Zephyr
• Comfort in working with uncertainty, using your initiative, and doing what it takes to solve problems
• A team player who is effective at working within a cross-discipline team, contributing to overall product creation

Some nice to haves include:

• An understanding of the wider system beyond software, and an ability to articulate the impact of systems decisions on software and vice versa
• Experience working with Modbus, BLE, Ethernet, WiFi, TCP/IP, MQTT, AWS, LwM2M, CoAP or LTE-M
• A background in safety critical software development, or familiarity in working with robust engineering practices and certifiable software

Research shows that while men apply for jobs when they meet ~ 60% of the job criteria, women and other marginalised groups tend to apply only when they check every box. So if you think you have what it takes, but are not sure you check every box, we still want to hear from you 🙌

Benefits

• A competitive salary and employee share scheme (ESOP)
• A remote-first culture - work from home or come into the office, it's totally up to you
• Unlimited annual leave so that you can take the time that you need to re-energise
• Tools of trade, including laptop and headphones, and we also pay your phone bill!
• Flexible hours - we focus on effort and outcomes, so adjust your hours around your children, hobbies, or other commitments
• A schedule of fun team events throughout the year (ziplining, knife throwing, lawn games, what's next?)
• Office dogs
• Access to Clearhead, our well-being programme which gives you 5x free sessions with a psychologist per year
• A $200 one-off payment towards your home workstation
• A commitment to diversity and inclusion: Pride Committee, DEIB Committee, EEO Policy and well-being strategy! 
• Parental leave policy that tops up wages to 100% for the primary caregiver for up to 22 weeks (conditions apply)
• The opportunity to learn and develop from some of the best and brightest minds in the industry!

Let's Talk!

We’d love to hear from you! No need to submit a cover letter - just click 'apply' to answer a few short questions of ours (we find this gives us more insight) and attach your CV.

If you have any questions about the role, fire them over to Steph at talent@wearebasis.com