
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain and enhance the Yocto BSP for the TechNexion PICO-IMX6 DualLite (NXP i.MX6) platform.
- Assess and execute migration from Yocto Zeus to a newer LTS release (e.g., Dunfell/Kirkstone).
- Integrate stable Linux kernel patches from NXP and mainline.
- Optimize system boot time, startup sequence, and overall performance.
- Remove unnecessary services and packages to reduce image footprint.
- Update and stabilize the Bluetooth stack (BlueZ and firmware).
- Optimize Linux kernel configuration, power management, and CPU tuning.
- Debug CPU, memory, storage, and I/O performance issues.
- Maintain Yocto layers, build process, and technical documentation.
- Define and maintain eMMC/SD storage layouts for boot, rootfs, data, and update partitions.
Required Skills
Mandatory
5+ years of Embedded Linux development experience.
2+ years of hands-on Yocto Project experience.
Strong expertise in:
- Yocto (recipes, meta-layers, BitBake, bbappend)
- Linux kernel configuration and patching
- NXP i.MX6 or similar embedded platforms
- Systemd optimization and boot profiling
- Embedded Linux debugging (dmesg, perf, ftrace, systemd-analyze)
- BlueZ and Bluetooth bring-up
- Cross-compilation, toolchains, and Git workflows
Preferred
- Yocto LTS migration experience.
- U-Boot optimization.
- Embedded power optimization.
- Secure Boot and OTA update concepts.
- Exposure to Qt-based embedded systems.
Key Deliverables
- Optimized and maintainable Yocto BSP.
- Reduced system boot time.
- Lean system image with redundant services removed.
- Stable Bluetooth stack with updated patches.
- Updated Linux kernel with critical fixes.
- Documented Yocto layers and build process.
- Migration plan for the latest Yocto LTS.
- Defined storage partition layout for deployment.
Experience: 5+ Years in Embedded Linux (Minimum 2+ Years with Yocto)

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MANDATORY CRITERIA:
- Education: B.Tech / M.Tech in ECE / CSE / IT
- Experience: 10–12 years in hardware board design, system hardware engineering, and full product deployment cycles
- Proven expertise in digital, analog, and power electronic circuit analysis & design
- Strong hands-on experience designing boards with SoCs, FPGAs, CPLDs, and MPSoC architectures
- Deep understanding of signal integrity, EMI/EMC, and high-speed design considerations
- Must have successfully completed at least two hardware product development cycles from high-level design to final deployment
- Ability to independently handle schematic design, design analysis (DC drop, SI), and cross-team design reviews
- Experience in sourcing & procurement of electronic components, PCBs, and mechanical parts for embedded/IoT/industrial hardware
- Strong experience in board bring-up, debugging, issue investigation, and cross-functional triage with firmware/software teams
- Expertise in hardware validation, test planning, test execution, equipment selection, debugging, and report preparation
- Proficiency in Cadence Allegro or Altium EDA tools (mandatory)
- Experience coordinating with layout, mechanical, SI, EMC, manufacturing, and supply chain teams
- Strong understanding of manufacturing services, production pricing models, supply chain, and logistics for electronics/electromechanical components
DESCRIPTION:
COMPANY OVERVIEW:
The company is a semiconductor and embedded system design company with a focus on Embedded, Turnkey ASICs, Mixed Signal IP, Semiconductor & Product Engineering and IoT solutions catering to Aerospace & Defence, Consumer Electronics, Automotive, Medical and Networking & Telecommunications.
REQUIRED SKILLS:
- Extensive experience in hardware board designs and towards multiple product field deployment cycles.
- Strong foundation and expertise in analyzing digital, Analog and power electronic circuits.
- Proficient with SoC, FPGAs, CPLD and MPSOC architecture-based board designs.
- Knowledgeable in signal integrity, EMI/EMC concepts for digital and power electronics.
- Completed at least two project from high-level design to final product level deployment.
- Capable of independently managing product’s schematic, design analysis DC Drop, Signal Integrity, and coordinating reviews with peer of layout, mechanical, SI, and EMC teams.
- Sourcing and procurement of electronic components, PCBs, and mechanical parts for cutting-edge IoT, embedded, and industrial product development.
- Experienced in board bring-up, issue investigation, and triage in collaboration with firmware and software teams.
- Skilled in preparing hardware design documentation, validation test planning, identifying necessary test equipment, test development, execution, debugging, and report preparation.
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills for collaborative work with cross-functional teams, including post-silicon bench validation, BIOS, and driver development/QA.
- Hands-on experience with Cadence Allegro/Altium EDA tools is essential.
- Familiarity with programming and scripting languages like Python and Perl, and experience in test automation is advantageous.
- Should have excellent exposure with coordination of Manufacturing Services, pricing model for production value supply chain & Logistics in electronics and electromechanical components domain.
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Position title: Firmware Engineer
Experience: 6-12 years
Notice Period: 0-30 days
Location: Bangalore(Sarjapur)
Role type: Permanent
About the role
Experience in Firmware/Software programming in embedded Linux & RTOS based application development. Candidate must have a very good understanding of ARM processor, hardware and custom board or product development experience.
Roles and Responsibilities:
Design, code and integrate software for an embedded Linux/RTOS targeted application(applications, drivers, framework)
Customization, deployment and maintenance of Linux distribution
Interact with Linux kernel, integrate new device drivers Improvement and maintain existing software components
Perform unit test, Integration test, verification and validation of the product developed.
Assist with the hardware design surrounding the processor
Document the projects according to standards (protocols, architecture, technical specifications, etc.)
Specific skills:
Expert in C programming with RTOS.
Hands-On experience with Protocol development.
Nice to have Protocol development experience such as USB or DP, HDMI or equivalent.
System level design and understanding of overall system
Strong knowledge of Linux, ARM processor architecture with SOC, FPGA interface is a plus.
Hand-on experience on Linux kernel and device-driver development and debugging.
Knowledge/Experience of TCP/IP, Network programming.
Ability to write effective and reusable code according to best practices.
Must be a dynamic, autonomous, and team-oriented individual.
Knowledge of hardware and low-level development is an asset
Please provide below mention details:
No. of years of working experience in Embedded Linux -
Protocol stack development Exp, any specific protocol worked on -
Relevant Experience:
Official Notice Period 30/60/90 Days:
Date of Resignation:
Serving Notice Period and Last Working Day:
Current Company:
Current Location:
Work Location:
Current CTC(fixed,variable):
Expected CTC(fixed,variable):
Interview Availability:
Any Offer:
Relocate to Bangalore(Sarjapur):
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Automotive Embedded Developer
Experience: 3-8 Years
Location: Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Pune, Thiruvananthapuram, Calicut
Company: Tata Elxsi
Skills : Embedded C, CAN Protocol, Vector Tools, Aspice. Design and Development of ECU
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Role: Senior Firmware Engineer Experience: 2-6 years Work Mode: Work from Office Location: Hyderabad Notice Period: Immediate to 30 days Mandatory Skills: Embedded C Programming, Debugging, Configuration Management Budget Range: As per Market Standards · The ideal candidate is a self-motivated, multi-tasker, and demonstrated team-player. · You will be an individual contributor responsible for the development of new software products and enhancements to existing products. · You should excel in working with Application (ASW) and Base software (BSW) components and have outstanding communication and leadership skills.
· Understand & Review System Requirements, System Architecture · Participate in CFT Meetings for Requirements Clarity · Develop & Enhance Software Requirements · Develop & Enhance Software Architecture · Understand / Review / Change Software Design Documents · Writing clean, high-quality, high-performance, maintainable code · Participate in Software Code Reviews · Review Test Scenarios developed for SWE4, SWE5 and SWE6 · Perform Investigation and provide Root Cause Analysis for failures · Support test and deployment of new products and features
· Embedded C Programming · Excellent Debugging skills · 16-bit or 32-bit Micro Controllers · Ability to interpret circuit and schematics · Knowledge of CAN and LIN communication protocols and UDS diagnostics · Knowledge of Sensors, Motors, and Closed Loop Control · Knowledge of Memory and Timing Analysis · Experience in Configuration Management (SVN, IBM Rational, JIRA) · Experience in Debugging using CRO, Debuggers, CANalyzer / CANoe · Working knowledge of ISO 26262 Functional Safety requirements · Good exposure to End-to-End product development · Knowledge about Automotive Standards – ASPICE · Perform Safety Analysis and Impact Analysis based on ISO26262 recommendations · Exposure to CAPL, Python and LabView
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- Hands-on embedded C skills (mandatory)
- Experience with any microcontrollers MCU (mandatory) – Renesas/ Infineon/ Cypress/ ST-Micro /TI / Microchip
- Experience with any of peripherals & communication protocols usage in application development (mandatory) – UART, I2C, SPI, I2S, CAN, USB, ADC, DAC, EEPROM, Flash memory
- Experience with any RTOS – FreeRTOS, Azure RTOS, ThreadX
- Experience with any networking & connectivity modules (preferred & added advantage) – Ethernet, WiFi, BLE, MQTT, COAP
Responsibilities and Duties
The team leader will be leading a team of Hardware engineers, firmware and testing engineers. Being a team leader, you will primarily be responsible for fast and accurate delivery from the team which might even include handholding of team members whenever needed. Embedded team would be responsible for the following:
Hardware Design including
- Circuit design as per design requirements
- Schematic capture in the tool
- CAD layout
- QA/QC/functional testing
- PCB assembling and rework
- Lab inventory management
- Component procurement.
Firmware Design Including
- Firmware Design and architect
- Software Development
- Firmware Testing
- Code management over svn
Other Responsibilities
- The team leader would also be responsible for architecting the system, creating detailed design documents as per requirement and maintaining quality control of all the deliverables.
- The team leader would also be required to create a detailed test plan and list of test cases to be executed and if needed, create proper environment for the same.
- Ownership of the ‘ground up’ design and architecture of embedded software for real time applications.
- Decomposition of designs in to structured modules/functions ready for implementationby yourself and the team.
- Hands on development in C of new ARM based embedded software for a range of products currently under development
- Ensure quality of software using appropriate methods(Code Review, Static Analysis, Unit Test etc.) and application of suitable Coding Standards
- Maintain, update and enhance existing embedded software written in C
- Documentation of software products, development and execution of test plans
- Work closely with other members of the engineering team to assist with the correct choice of processors and supporting hardware
Required Experience, Skills and Qualifications
- Experience of 8+ years in field of embedded systems designing and developement.
- Familiar with usage of various LAB instruments.
- Strong fundamentals of electronics (Digital and analog) are must.
- Well versed with circuit designing and HW debugging
- Analog and Digital Circuit designing: familiarity with micro-controllers, memories, communication interfaces, op-amps, comparators, relays, inductors and capacitors, Handling EMI and Noise issues associated with circuits.
- Understanding of BLE protocols will be required.
- Understanding of scientific methodologies of experimentation, data-gathering and interpretation and hypothesis.
- Understanding of basic architecture, debugging of sensors.
- Experienced in embedded-C coding, memory allocations.
- Experience with any RTOS designing preferably with FreeRTOS at least with Semaphores, SW Timers, synchronisation and event handlings, task handling and prioritization.
- Understanding of micro-controller architecture, programming and debugging methodologies, interrupt-handling.
- Experience with any of the IDEs and debuggers for ARM architecture.
- Basic understanding of assembly programing of ARM architecture
- Understanding of basic peripherals like UART, CAN, I2C, Timers, Counters, PWMs, ADCs, DAC.
- Experience/knowledge in IoT devices (sensor, gateway, cloud) handling.
- Familiarity with CAD tools for schematics and layout generation.
- Experience on MS-Office.
- Familiarity in understanding and creating various test plans and documents.
General Skills Needed/ Requirements:
- Strong knowledge of components and should be able to suggest the team with right componenet
- Candidate must have a knack to use his/her technical knowledge to give it back to society.
- Candidates passionate to bring a change in society will be preferred with no compromise on pay check.
- Candidates must be open to work with communities to get feedback on product features so that products are best fit for social upliftment.
- Candidates must be open to travel to needy communities and should not hesitate to get his/her hands dirty to bring a change to the communities.
- Candidates must find associated with the cause and mission of the company.
- Open to work in open startup culture and give his/her 100%.
- Analytical reasoning and fact-based brainstorming capabilities will be highly preferred.
- Ready to relocate to Gurugram.
- Occasional field visits.
- Looking engineers with 3 - 4 years of experienced embedded software and embedded Linux developers
- Design and implement Embedded Linux based applications
- Design and implement embedded software for telematics and IoT products
- Code review and optimization
- Develop board support packages for new hardware designs
- Provide customization and field support
- Closely work with the hardware development team
Requirements:
- BE/BTech in ECE, EEE or CS
- 3 - 4 years of experience in embedded software and embedded Linux development
- Good working experience in Linux applications and drive development
- Good C programming skills
- Good knowledge of OS programming
- Familiarity with configuration management tools
- Good communication skills

- Perform technical feasibility studies of new technologies and architectures, including evaluation of OTS cloud offering.
- Generate entire software image for the target device, including the kernel, device drivers, libraries, and application software, and the bootloader for proprietary IOT connectivity device(s).
- Software packaging with RPM building and management
- Define the process to upgrade the new Linux package to existing hardware at customer premises
- Configuration and Troubleshoot of the proprietary IOT connectivity devices for internal R&D teams during their development and verification
- Automate the creation and distribution of keys and certificates
- Understand, implement, and automate security controls for IoT connectivity devices.
- Tune server and application-level performance monitoring and alerting.
- Help define our roadmap and architecture based on technology and business needs, considering architectural issues and tradeoffs
- Understand and manage integration points with other systems that interface with your applications
- Supports development of project plans, including scope, budget, schedules, and risk management.
- Works closely with the business analysts, software development and verification team, the functional manager, and the program manager.
- Collaborate and work with global teams in multiple locations.
- Interface with Global Privacy and Security team for the IoT Gateway understand security risks and recommendations and provide solutions to mitigate the security risks
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Networking / Computer Science / Software Engineering or a related field
- 12+ years of hands-on experience in Networking, shell scripting, and Linux internals, with a development background.
- Strong understanding of Networking concepts like VPC, Route tables, Host base router firewall, SSH, NAT, DNS, DHCP, SNMP, Virtual IPs, VPN
- Linux System Administration and Networking work experience
- Configuring Firewalls(IP tables/firewall) and security software
- Able to generate Linux packages, and configure based on business needs.
- Passion for cybersecurity. Ability to build secured Linux packages with antivirus and security patches.
- Shell, Python scripting experience
- Basic SQL skills
- Ability to work with cross-functional and remote teams. Must be able to communicate in English, both written and verbal.
- Interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate with vendors and customers.
- Experience with Agile Scrum
- Development background in Java/C++
- DevOps knowledge
- Knowledge on javascript
1. Good Knowledge in Hardware Development (Various Sensors, PCB Designing, Various Micro-controller boards)
2. Firmware designing (writing code on various micro-controller platforms using various hardware communication protocols (USART, SPI, I2C, CAN, etc). Great command in Embedded C Programming and Python.
3. Should have worked with various wired and wireless devices for communication ( Like GSM, GPS, GPRS, Wifi, BLE, Xbee, etc)
4. Should have practical experience in basic networking with devices.
5. Should have worked on various Hardware platforms like Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Web Frameworks, etc.
6. Should have worked with various methods of communicating sensors data on various clouds using API's using multiple protocols like HTTP, TCP-IP and MQTT, etc.
Experience Required : Minimum 4 Years
Expected Salary : 4 - 5.5 CTC






