HiringCareers at Aotea Energy · Auckland

Come build the batteries
powering New Zealand's grid.

Vertically integrated across hardware, software, retail and installation. We ship code that runs on real batteries in real homes — and it slashes bills by an average of 67%.

Fleet · Real timeLIVE
Solar
1.54kW
Fleet SOC
99%
Grid
-5.7kW
Wholesale
$0.087
Solar1.54 kWFleet SOC99%Grid-5.7 kWWholesale$0.087 / kWh24h peak$0.069 / kWh24h low$0.00010 / kWhGrid freq50.00 HzHomes online26Charging17 systemsAvg bill−67%
About Aotea Energy

Smart distributed storage is the cornerstone of a fully electrified New Zealand.

The country has committed to a bold future: a resilient economy powered by renewables. But that takes more than generation — it takes flexibility, storage, and intelligence at the edge of the grid.

We build the most affordable, intelligent battery system in NZ — empowering households to control their power and cost. Vertically integrated across hardware, software, retail and installation, we ship fast and move dynamically across the whole business.

67%
Lower bills, on average
4
Arms — HW · SW · retail · install
1M+
IoT messages ingested per day
Aotea Energy home battery
17 charging
Avg state of charge
99%
What makes us different

A little insane about ambition.

We're not building another B2B SaaS wrapper. We're changing how the grid and individual homes move power — and the way we work reflects it.

01

Ambitious as hell

50 MWh of distributed storage in three years. We're fundamentally changing how the grid and homes move power — not transforming the world with a slide deck.

02

Total ownership

Zero layers of middle management to filter your ideas or slow you down. You drive the product forward and see the impact on real users. If you build it, you own it.

03

No meetings™

Exactly one company-wide meeting per week. We protect your heads-down time because context switching is an engineer's worst nightmare.

04

Constant tech evolution

No rigid box. Our stack evolves as our architecture scales to real-time grid loads. If there's a better tool for the job, we adopt it — your skills stretch constantly.

Life at AE

Close to the metal, and the brains.

We're an Auckland-based, in-office-first team building critical physical hardware and sub-second real-time software. We aren't clock-watchers — hybrid flexibility keeps you at your best.

Ship straight to homes

Your code physically runs on batteries inside people's houses across New Zealand.

No telephone game

Talk to users directly. They're obsessed with energy tech, opinionated, and delightfully unfiltered.

50+ kWh R&D lab

Batteries and solar in the office that we get to break, tune and play with.

Full-stack playground

Sketch a mobile UI, write Rust APIs, and deploy to hardware — all in the same week.

Outputs over everything

High autonomy, no busywork. A passionate bunch chasing simple, elegant solutions.

Hybrid flexibility

Auckland, in-office first — but we support you living your life and working at your best.

Open roles

If you can keep up, we'd love to talk.

Every role is Auckland-based and in-office first. You just need to be a first-principled, passionate troubleshooter.

1
open positions
Engineering & Product

Think you can keep up?

We're hiring across engineering, hardware and operations in Auckland. Come help electrify a country.

Bonus points for rodeo riding.