C++/Networking Engineer

As a Software Engineer III – Unreal Engine, you’ll be a core technical contributor and leader on a team building high-end AAA PC/Console experiences. You’ll take ownership of critical game systems, mentor other engineers, and help define technical direction. Working alongside art, design, and production, your experience and engineering insight will shape the gameplay, tools, and systems that bring our ambitious projects to life.

What You’ll Do

• Architect, implement, and optimize complex systems in Unreal Engine 5 using C++
• Lead development of gameplay, systems, and core tech features
• Collaborate with designers, artists, and producers to ensure technical feasibility and creative alignment
• Mentor junior engineers and uphold best engineering practices
• Drive performance improvements across PC and console builds
• Participate in planning, tech reviews, and cross-functional coordination

What We’re Looking For

• 7+ years of experience in Unreal Engine-based game development
• Deep expertise in C++ and Unreal Engine internals (e.g., Gameplay Framework, Replication, UObjects, GAS, )
• Experience with multiplayer, AI, Bots, Physics and rendering systems
• Shipped multiple PC/Console titles with significant system ownership
• Excellent debugging, profiling, and performance-tuning skills
• Strong software architecture skills and understanding of real-time game systems
• Proven leadership and mentoring abilities

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with Unreal Editor tooling, plugins, and build systems
• Knowledge of Agile production pipelines
• Contributions to tool development or tech pipelines
• Understanding of AI-Tools and ability to adapt them in workflows to improve productivity

Job Category: Engineering

Job Type: Full Time

Job Location: Hyderabad

Primary skills:

At least 3+ years of working experience on embedded firmware development

- Experience in multithreaded programming, network programming (wired and wireless protocols), real-time programming, cross-platform and cross-language development

- Hands-on experience on driver development for various sensors

- Working knowledge of communication protocols like UART, I2C, SPI, USB, Ethernet, etc

- Product development experience with range of microcontroller/microprocessor architectures, adoption of bare-metal, RTOS and Linux operating systems on new platforms

-Hands-on experience on software development in Bluetooth domain is added advantage

- Experience with hardware lab equipment such as digital scope, logic analyser and JTAG

- Understanding of embedded development constraints and system performance

- Experience with programming in C/C++ and Embedded C

1. Developing HMI application in Qt or similar UI frameworks
2. Develop C++ or Rust backends for the HMI
3. Understand and optimize potential performance bottlenecks

• At least 3 years of C++ programming experience in a Linux environment.
• Strong understanding of computer systems e.g. operating systems, networks, performance optimization, etc
• Experience in Object-Oriented design and multi threaded programming
• Experience in creating/supporting cross-platform multi threaded applications
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Ideally some experience in developing low latency systems
• Experience with trading or execution systems preferred
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering or related field
• Reliable and predictable availability
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  Ideally in Mumbai Metro Area but open to anywhere for the right candidate.

You’ll be our: Firmware Engineer

You’ll be based at: IBC Knowledge Park, Bengaluru

You’ll be Aligned with: Embedded Manager

You’ll be a member of: Vehicle Software

What you’ll do at Ather:

A successful candidate is expected to lead the Firmware development and integration effort for various Ather products and be responsible for qualifying and integrating FW at various stages with HW. Responsibilities include:

• Understanding requirements from different stakeholders and translating these to application features

• Writing high quality source code to program complete applications within deadlines

• Unit-testing code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability

• Performing functional and non-functional testing

• Troubleshooting and debugging applications

• Designing creative prototypes according to specifications

• Evaluating existing applications to reprogram, update and add new features

• Developing technical documents and handbooks to accurately represent application design and code

• Identifying and communicating possible risks along with preventive and corrective measures

• Designing HW/SW integration while working with HW/Algorithms/Cloud teams to deliver an integrated solution. 

Here’s what we are looking for: 

Must have: 

• ECU Software development experience (any of the ARM based Auto ECUs Body Electronics/Infotainment/ Powertrain/Cluster) 

• Previous experience with Low level firmware, Boot loaders, Device Drivers development 

• Hands on Experience Communication Protocols CAN, I2C, SPI, RS232

• Experience with static analyser, JTAG tools etc…

• Knowledge in Assembly and compilers

• Strong testing & debugging skills, experience with logic analysers

• Language: C, C++

Nice to have:

• Knowledge of HW design for ECUs

• Experience with UDS, AutoSAR, ISO26262, MISRA Guidelines 

• Previous experience with SIL and HIL Testing as well as Test case generation for the same.

• Hand on experience in using CAN tools & CAPL Scripts, Bus Master

• Real Time operating Systems, Python, Matlab/Simulink

You bring to Ather:

• BE/B.tech/B.Sc is minimum req with minimum 2-6 years of prior industry experience.

Job Description:

Looking for engineers with one of the below requirements:

• 2-5 years of embedded development experience in a Linux environment with C programming
• With Option1:
• EDK2 experience
• SCT experience
• knowledge of TPMs
• With Option2:
• worked on bootloaders or uboot