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Hubbell Utility Solutions is seeking a Staff Engineer (10+ years experience) to join our Engineering Enablement team - a cross-functional group whose product is the productivity of every engineer in the organization.
This team operates on a model widely adopted across the industry (Platform Engineering / DevEx): instead of every product team solving common infrastructure challenges independently, we build shared capabilities once and continuously improve them for everyone.In this role, you will design and build the 'golden paths' engineers use every day - the fastest, safest, and most reliable way to build, test, and release embedded products. These are not documents - they are working systems: CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks, test infrastructure, and developer workflows. You will work at the intersection of embedded firmware, Python-based automation, Azure DevOps platform engineering, and real hardware validation - helping transform how engineering is performed across the organization.

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Every day at Hubbell is different and you'll contribute in many ways. On any given day, you'll make a difference by: 

• Most engineering roles focus on building a single product. This role focuses on building the systems that make every product team faster.
• You will shape how firmware is built, tested, and released across the organization, creating shared infrastructure used by multiple teams. This is the same pattern used by leading technology companies and is commonly referred to as Platform Engineering or Developer Experience (DevEx).
• This role offers outsized technical impact: instead of improving one system, your work improves the productivity, reliability, and velocity of the entire engineering organization.

What you will build

Golden Paths for Engineering
Design and implement end-to-end CI/CD systems for embedded firmware - from commit to release
Build reusable pipeline templates and automation frameworks used across multiple product teams
Create onboarding and self-service systems that reduce setup time and improve consistency
Engineering Infrastructure as a Product
Treat CI/CD pipelines and engineering tooling as product-grade systems - reliable, observable, and continuously improved
Integrate build, test, security, signing, and release into seamless workflows
Define and evolve standard patterns that become the easiest and best way to work
Embedded + Automation Systems
Automate build, flash, and validation workflows involving embedded toolchains and real hardware
Integrate hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing and CI systems
Developer Experience (DevEx) Engineering
Measure and improve build reliability, speed, and usability
Reduce friction across firmware, test, and systems engineering workflows
Partner with engineers to identify pain points and convert them into scalable solutions

Tools and Technologies

Azure DevOps (Pipelines, Repos, Artifacts) Python Git YAML pipelines Embedded toolchains (IAR, Simplicity Studio, or similar) Build systems (C/C++) Test automation frameworks Hardware-in-the-loop systems DevSecOps tools (SAST, SCA, code signing)

Core Skills
Strong Python development for building automation, tooling, and engineering systems
Experience architecting CI/CD systems (Azure DevOps preferred)
Deep understanding of build systems, version control, and release workflows
Embedded Systems
Experience with firmware development or embedded build systems
Comfortable working at the boundary between software and hardware
Experience Level
10+ years in software engineering, firmware development, platform engineering, or similar
Demonstrated ownership of complex systems used by other engineers
Mindset
Treat infrastructure and tooling as a product
Focus on usability, reliability, and long-term maintainability
Motivated by solving problems that impact entire organizations
Nice to Have
Experience with Azure DevOps ecosystems
Familiarity with test automation and hardware-in-the-loop systems
Experience integrating security/scanning tools into pipelines

Growth Path

This role is designed as a high-impact technical leadership position. As the Engineering Enablement function matures, this role may evolve into broader platform ownership, architectural leadership, or domain-focused technical strategy roles.