Staff Engineer - Engineering Enablement

Job Overview

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 / Dev Ex): instead of every product team solving common infrastructure challenges independently, we build shared capabilities once and continuously improve them for  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 Dev Ops platform engineering, and real hardware validation - helping transform how engineering is performed across the organization.

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A Day In The Life

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 (Dev Ex).
• 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 tool chains and real hardware
Integrate hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing and CI systems

Developer Experience (Dev Ex) 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 Dev Ops (Pipelines, Repos, Artifacts) Python Git YAML pipelines Embedded tool chains (IAR, Simplicity Studio, or similar) Build systems (C/C++) Test automation frameworks Hardware-in-the-loop systems Dev Sec Ops  tools (SAST, SCA, code signing)

What will help you thrive in this role?

Core Skills
Strong Python development for building automation, tooling, and engineering systems
Experience architecting CI/CD systems (Azure Dev Ops 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 Dev Ops 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.

Hubbell Incorporated

Hubbell creates critical infrastructure solutions that power our customers, communities, people and the planet. Our company is strategically aligned around enabling grid modernization and electrification. As more products plug in to an aging grid, Hubbell solutions enable the transition to a more reliable, resilient and efficient energy infrastructure. Founded in 1888 our innovation has made us a leading global manufacturer of high quality electrical and utility solutions enabling customers to operate critical infrastructure reliably and efficiently.

The company operates in two segments. Hubbell Utility Solutions (HUS) enable the grid to conduct, communicate and control energy…