ABB 800xA - Engineer

We are seeking a highly skilled Qt/QML Engineer to design and develop advanced GUIs and networking modules for UAV Ground Control Stations and Cockpit Displays. The role requires working closely with UI designers, avionics software engineers, and mission systems experts to create reliable, intuitive, and real-time GCS components for mission-critical systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance UI applications using Qt/QML (Qt Quick, QML, C++).
• Translate system requirements into responsive, interactive, and user-friendly interfaces.
• Generate data scheduling schemes, encode data packets as per required protocols and data rates and transmit to drone(s) as per protocol
• Decode incoming data streams as per the protocols, extract data, store, and populate corresponding UI elements.
• Integrate UI and networking components with real-time data streams from avionics systems, UAVs, or mission control software.
• Collaborate with engineers to ensure compliance with DO-178C, or MIL-STD guidelines where applicable.
• Optimise application performance for low-latency visualisation and data transmission in mission-critical environments.
• Implement data visualisation (raster and vector maps, telemetry, flight parameters, mission planning overlays).
• Write clean, testable, and maintainable code while adhering to aerospace software standards.
• Work with cross-functional teams (system engineers, hardware engineers, test teams) to validate UI against operational requirements.
• Support debugging, simulation, and testing activities, including hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) setups.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s / Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• 1-3 years of experience in developing Qt/QML-based applications (Qt Quick, QML, Qt Widgets, QTcpSockets, QtUdpSockets).
• Strong proficiency in C++ (11/14/17) and object-oriented programming.
• Experience integrating UI with real-time data sources (TCP/IP, UDP, serial, CAN, DDS, etc.).
• Knowledge of multithreading, performance optimisation, and memory management.
• Familiarity with aerospace/automotive domain software practices or mission-critical systems.
• Good understanding of UX principles for operator consoles and mission planning systems.
• Strong problem-solving, debugging, and communication skills.

Desirable Skills

• Experience with GIS/Mapping libraries (OpenSceneGraph, Cesium, Marble, etc.).
• Knowledge of OpenGL, Vulkan, or 3D visualisation frameworks.
• Exposure to DO-178C or aerospace software compliance.
• Familiarity with UAV ground control software (QGroundControl, Mission Planner, etc.) or similar mission systems.
• Experience with Linux and cross-platform development (Windows/Linux).
• Scripting knowledge in Python for tooling and automation.
• Background in defence, aerospace, automotive or embedded systems domain.

What We Offer

• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge aerospace and defence technologies.
• Collaborative and innovation-driven work culture.
• Exposure to real-world avionics and mission systems.
• Growth opportunities in autonomy, AI/ML for aerospace, and avionics UI systems.

Key Responsibilities

1. Kernel Lifecycle & Maintenance

Upstream Alignment: Lead the strategy for upgrading enterprise kernels (e.g., migrating from LTS 5.15 to 6.6) while maintaining binary compatibility where required.

Patch Porting: Expertly port functional and performance patches between disparate kernel versions, resolving complex code conflicts and API changes.

CVE Mitigation: Monitor the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML) and security advisories to identify and backport CVE patches from upstream to production environments.

2. Deep-Dive Debugging & Stability

Panic Analysis: Act as the final escalation point for Kernel Panics and "Oops" messages. Utilize kdump, crash, and gdb to perform post-mortem analysis of vmcores.

Boot-Time Resolution: Debug critical failures during the early boot process (UEFI handoff, initramfs, and early kernel init) where standard logging is unavailable.

Performance Tuning: Use ebpf, ftrace, and perf to identify bottlenecks in memory management, scheduler latency, or I/O throughput.

3. Driver Development & Hardware Integration

Driver Ownership: Design, develop, or maintain at least one Open Source or Proprietary Device Driver (Network, Storage, GPU, or Character devices).

Hardware Abstraction: Interface directly with hardware registers, managing DMA mappings, and optimizing interrupt handling (MSI-X, Threaded IRQs).

Out-of-Tree Management: Maintain driver compatibility across kernel updates using DKMS or similar frameworks.

4. Infrastructure & Automation

Registry Management: Oversee the distribution of custom kernel builds and modules via GitLab Container/Package Registries.

CI/CD for Kernel: Build automated testing pipelines (Hardware-in-the-loop) to validate kernel stability before enterprise-wide deployment.

Required Technical Skills:

Languages: Mastery of C/C++ Programming (C is preferred)

Kernel Internals: Deep understanding of VFS, Memory Management (MMU/Paging), Process Scheduling, and Networking Stacks.

Debugging Tools: Expert-level use of kprobes, trace-cmd, valgrind, and hardware-level debuggers (JTAG/Serial Console).

Build Systems: Proficiency with Kbuild, Makefiles, and building RPM/Debian packages for kernel distribution.

Security: Hands-on experience with SELinux/AppArmor policy development and kernel hardening (FIPS, KSPP).

* Experience in C/C++ and have strong experience embedded application development and integration in Linux

* Good in creating unit tests, performing code reviews, optimizing performance and ensuring standards for maintainability  

* Debugging, profiling, and performance optimization skills

QUALIFICATIONS: B.E./ B.Tech. (Electronics/ Electrical/ Mechatronics/ Mechanical)

EMPLOYMENT: Permanent / Full Time

LOCATION: Ahmedabad

EXPERIENCE: 1 to 3 years within automotive industry / software development.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop, Debug simulink/stateflow models according to functional, technical requirements, MAAB guidelines.
• Derive software requirements from system level requirements and establish bi-directional traceability within the models and generated code.
• Generate Code from developed models, generate test vectors, automate tests and document code reviews, test results.
• Automate the data exchange flow between MATLAB models, excel sheets, code testing using m-scripts.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Experience in model based development and testing using Mathwork Tools such as MATLAB/Simulink, Stateflow, autocode generation tools Embedded coder or TargetLink.
• Good understanding of the Automotive software development cycle and tool chains
• Should possess a good understanding of C coding, m-scripting, with good debugging and software testing skills.
• Experience in developing MATLAB/ Simulink models from scratch for automotive applications.
• Should have experience in requirements management, and be able to write test cases from them.
• Experience in MBD testing such as MIL/ SIL/PIL.
• Good communication skills in English and Hindi Language.
• Experience in MATLAB verification and validation toolbox like Simulink Design Verifier, Simulink Test, Simulink Coverage is advantageous.
• Basic understanding of Control System Design and Electric Vehicles is a plus.

8+ years of experience  Excellent skills in C/C++/Java programming in embedded domain 

Strong experience  in the area of Automotive, Android Embedded development and Connectivity Technologies
Strong experience on Android architecture, HAL, BSP, customize driver in Android HAL, Android boot up sequence
Familiar with Android Build System and procedure and able to provide ideas to improve continuous build and integration

Experience in Hardware peripherals like Ethernet, CAN, DMA, I2C, SPI, UART, Hardware Accelerator, AFE , LCD, backlight, touchcontroller

Experience with design/ modification to Hardware Abstraction Libraries (HAL) for Android support of low-level device features.
Experience in debugging on a wide range of Linux Kernel drivers and Android framework HALs e.g. Audio/Video, USB, Bluetooth, WiFi

  Fluent in industry standard software development tools: HSW/HE debuggers, code revision control systems (GIT, Perforce), IDEs and build tools
Exposure/experience in Automotive Embedded Software Development is a plus

RESPONSIBILITIES AND QUALIFICATIONS

Responsibilities

+ Design, build and maintain low latency, high-performance electronic trading platform components, with a focus on market data, exchange and client connectivity and risk controls.

+ Deliver continuous optimization for latency, scale and resiliency improvements.

+ Participate in system builds for various markets globally, have curiosity and interest in understanding market microstructure details, work closely with engineering, sales and product teams globally for successful delivery of projects.

+ Basic Qualifications

+ Bachelors or Masters degree in computer science or engineering or equivalent experience

+ 5+ years of professional experience developing deterministic high performance, low latency systems in python/C++ (counted in single digit microseconds)

+ Prior experience with FIX and binary exchange connectivity and market data protocols preferred

+ Strong knowledge of object oriented programming, data structures, algorithms and design patterns

+ Critical path analysis, performance optimization and hardware acceleration.

+ Linux systems programming experience including memory management, concurrent programming infrastructure, and the networking stack

+ Experience developing distributed architecture systems and messaging protocols

+ Strong analytical and problem solving skills

+ Comfortable in a fast-paced environment, self-motivated, results driven and commercially focused

Preferred Qualifications

+ Software development in python/C++ in the context of high performance (low- latency, high-throughput) real-time computing.

+ Familiarity with STL and C++11 language extensions, Boost

+ Network programming (sockets, TCP/UDP/Multicast protocols)

+ Multi-threading, concurrent programming

+ Intimate knowledge of compilers, flow of data at hardware level (memory/ caches, buses) + Some experience with FPGA or other hardware acceleration technologies

+ Experience processing large static datasets as well as high volume ticking data sources

+ Over 3 years' experience in Financial industry (Plus)