Lead Design Engineer
We Go Beyond for A Safer World
Te Tūranga – The Role
Are you passionate about embedded systems and practical engineering leadership? We are seeking a Lead Design Engineer to support and guide a small team of embedded firmware engineers, with a focus on platform-centric, low-level software.
In this role, you will balance people leadership with technical contribution. You'll support agile delivery practices, maintain and refine the development backlog, and contribute to embedded firmware design, implementation and testing where required.
Working closely with cross-functional teams, you will help ensure our products meet quality, performance and reliability expectations.
Key Focus Areas
Key Responsibilities
Ō pūkenga – About You
To be successful in this role, you will have a relevant Bachelor's, Postgraduate or other NZQA-approved tertiary qualification, or equivalent practical experience.
You will also bring:
Experience with radio technology would be advantageous.
Ngā painga – What's in it for you?
We are an employer that is committed to making a difference for families and communities and supporting people to build rewarding careers. We achieve this through employing people who connect with our Values (Commitment to listen. Courage to Act and Integrity to Deliver) that underpin our way of working together. We are committed to investing in our people, developing both individuals and teams to support a high-performance culture.
We support our people through:
Ko wai mātou – About Us
For more than 50 years, Tait Communications has been designing, delivering and supporting critical communications networks for public safety, transportation and utility customers around the world. Founded in Christchurch by Sir Angus Tait, we now support customers and partners globally.
Our people value being part of a collaborative team that develops technology with real-world impact.
Ko koe pea tēnei? – Sound like your kind of role?
If you're ready to take the next step in your engineering career and contribute to meaningful technology solutions, please submit your CV and cover letter by 11th March 2026
Applications will be assessed as they are received and may close prior to the advertised date.
For more information about our products and solutions, visit: www.taitcommunications.com
Our clients protect communities, power cities, move citizens, harness resources and save lives all over the world. We work with them to create, support and unify the critical communication solutions they depend on to do their jobs.
Digital wireless communication forms the central nervous system of everything we do. Around this resilient, robust core we design, develop, manufacture, test, deploy, support and manage innovative communication environments for organizations that have to put their total trust in the systems and people they work with.
We’ve worked hard to develop genuine insight into our clients’ worlds, and have pursued engineering, operational and services excellence for more than 40 years. This understanding, and our belief in championing open-standards technology, means we can give our clients the best possible choice and value to achieve the human outcomes they’re driven by.
We’re not simply aligned with our clients; we’re devoted to their cause.
Tait Communications’ sole dividend receiving shareholder is a charitable trust which shares the company’s operating profits across several donation and investment streams responsible for research and development, regional reinvestment and education. This rare model means clients can rely on Tait Communications to be an independent long-term player in the critical communications industry and to continue to play its role of ‘open-standards champion’.
