Embedded Software Engineer

Job Title

Hardware Engineer

Job Summary

We are seeking a Hardware Engineer to design, develop, and support low-power electronic hardware systems, from concept through production. The role involves schematic design, PCB layout, component selection, and collaboration with firmware and mechanical teams to deliver reliable and manufacturable hardware solutions.

Key Responsibilities

·        Design electronic circuits and develop schematics and PCB layouts

·        Select components based on performance, power, cost, and availability

·        Develop and review battery-operated designs

·        Ensure designs meet electrical, thermal, and reliability requirements

·        Support hardware bring-up, debugging, and validation

·        Prepare BOMs, Gerbers, and manufacturing documentation

·        Work closely with firmware, and testing team

·        Review and improve designs for DFM/DFA and production readiness

Required Qualifications

·        Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field

·        Strong understanding of analog and digital electronics

·        Experience with PCB design tools (Altium, KiCad, Eagle, or similar)

·        Familiarity with microcontrollers and embedded systems

·        Ability to read datasheets and apply reference designs

·        Basic knowledge of EMI/ESD protection and signal integrity

Preferred Qualifications

·        Experience with low-power or battery-operated hardware

·        Exposure to IoT devices, sensors, or communication modules

·        Experience supporting prototype to production transitions

·        Knowledge of manufacturing and testing processes

·        Ability to document designs clearly and professionally

Experience Level

·        2+ years

Soft Skills

·        Strong problem-solving skills

·        Ability to work independently and in cross-functional teams

·        Good communication and documentation skills

Mode Employment – Fulltime and Permanent

Working Location: Bommasandra Industrial Area, Hosur Main Road, Bangalore

Working Days: 5 days

Working Model: Hybrid - 3 days WFO and 2 days Home

Position Overview

As the Lead Software Engineer in our Research & Innovation team, you’ll play a strategic role in establishing and driving the technical vision for industrial AI solutions. Working closely with the Lead AI Engineer, you will form a leadership tandem to define the roadmap for the team, cultivate an innovative culture, and ensure that projects are strategically aligned with the organization’s goals. Your leadership will be crucial in developing, mentoring, and empowering the team as we expand, helping create an environment where innovative ideas can translate seamlessly from research to industry-ready products.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and drive the technical strategy for embedding AI into industrial automation products, with a focus on scalability, quality, and industry compliance.
• Lead the development of a collaborative, high-performing engineering team, mentoring junior engineers, automation experts, and researchers.
• Establish and oversee processes and standards for agile and DevOps practices, ensuring project alignment with strategic goals.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to align project goals, define priorities, and manage timelines, while driving innovative, research-based solutions.
• Act as a key decision-maker on technical issues, architecture, and system design, ensuring long-term maintainability and scalability of solutions.
• Ensure adherence to industry standards, certifications, and compliance, and advocate for industry best practices within the team.
• Stay updated on software engineering trends and AI applications in embedded systems, incorporating the latest advancements into the team’s strategic planning.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Extensive experience in software engineering, with a proven track record of leading technical teams, ideally in manufacturing or embedded systems.
• Strong expertise in Python and C++/Rust, Gitlab toolchains, and system architecture for embedded applications.
• Experience in DevOps, CI/CD, and agile methodologies, with an emphasis on setting and maintaining high standards across a team.
• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills in English.
• Willingness to travel as needed.

Preferred:

• Background in driving team culture, agile project management, and experience embedding AI in industrial products.
• Familiarity with sociocratic or consent-based management practices.
• Knowledge in embedded programming is an advantage.

Requirements:

• Very good programming knowledge in C/C++
• Experience in Multi-threaded software development
• Understanding of operating systems concepts, system performance, and optimization
• Familiar with working in an Embedded Linux development environment.
• Excellent problem-solving/debugging skills, design, development, troubleshooting, and debugging
• Knowledge of embedded tools like emulators, linkers, makefiles, etc
• Experience in voice applications development, preferably on client/server platforms
• Knowledge of RTOS programming will be added advantage.
• Understanding of different processors. microcontrollers architectures.
• Familiarity with development tools such as GCC, GDB, Eclipse, GNU Make, etc

● Write Effective Codes In C++, Develop Software For Embedded Systems Based On STM32, NRF
● Support And Improve Existing Software
● Prepare Documentation For The Created Software. Qualifications
● Confident Knowledge Of C++ 17, Object-Oriented Programming, Embedded Software Development
● Proficiency With Microcontrollers Of The STM32 And / Or NRF Series
● Experience With RTOS
● Familiarity With Git, Linux
● Technical English
● Knowledge Of Python As An Advantage
● Any Experience With UAS \ UAV \ Drones is much appreciated

Skill Required

          Technical

• ●  The suitable candidate shall have most of the following knowledge /skills/experience:

• ●  Clear fundamentals of Analog and Digital Electronics. Knowledge of Full Hardware

• Design Life Cycle.

• ●  Knowledge of Circuit Simulation (PSPICE, NI Multisim, etc).

• ●  Hand- On experience with HW designing rules, PCB Layout in Cadsoft Eagle/Altium Designer etc.

• ●  Should have knowledge & experience with designing & developing 8/16 bit Microcontroller based close loop control systems and Arduino Platform.

• ●  Circuit building and Circuit Analysis Skills.

• ●  Component Data Sheet analysis skills.

• ●  Project Requirement Analysis Protocols/Ethernet, Wi-Fi, USB, Serial interfaces(SPI, I2C, RS485, RS422, RS232).

• ●  Hands-on experience in utilizing test equipment like DMM, Oscilloscopes, Logic Analyzers, Function/Signal generator/Solder Station (SMD/DIP).

• ●  Knowledge about Board Bring Up process.

• ●  Testing (Integration testing, protocol/Driver testing, etc.).

• ●  Experience in Embedded C programming and embedded system integration and can develop test cases for the same.

• ●  Knowledge of IoT Open Source Programming / Development.

• ●  Candidate will be responsible for research & development of M2M/IoT products.

• ●  Candidate will be responsible for end-to-end embedded system integration.

   

• Others

  Abilities on the following shall be of added advantage:

• ●  Component Procurement

• ●  Vendor Interaction

• ●  Tools Management

• ●  Costing and resource estimation

• ●  Team management, Good Communication Skills, Pleasant Personality, Positive Attitude & Highly Creative

•  

• Decision level
  Contributory: Makes major contribution to decision or policy judgment on Technical matters of IoT/ M2M Projects, Vending Machines

  Demonstrate (Key competencies)

  Healthy knowledge of most of the following:

• ●  Embedded C

• ●  8/16 bit Microcontrollers

• ●  Atmel Studio/ Arduino IDE

• ●  Schematic / PCB layout design in Cadsoft Eagle / Altium Designer (SMD/DIP)

• ●  Hands-on experience on Test equipment and solder stations (SMD/DIP)

• ●  M2M / IoT based development

Job Description:

WLAN Linux Device Driver development (802.11ax preferred)

• WLAN Debugging
• WLAN Firmware development (802.11ac, 802.11n)
• Networking/Wireless Domain knowledge
• Hostapd, Supplicant
• Cross compiling/porting experience
• Performance optimization & Firmware enhancements

Must have Skills:

• 1-10 years of experience in Embedded Software Design, Implementation and testing
• Good knowledge of C or C++
• Basic knowledge in Scripting (Shell, Perl or Python)
• Proficiency in Problem Solving and Debugging skills
• Excellent team working skills
• Experience with version control e.g. GIT
• Basic experience of working in Linux OS
• Network Drivers
• WLAN Protocol Knowledge – 11n, 11ac
• WLAN Linux Device Drivers
• Hostpad, Supplicant
• WLAN Debugging
• Fluent in English

Desired Candidate Details:

• Design, development, and maintenance
• WLAN Stack development and debugging
• Feature Enhancements, Applications, Tools for SDKs
• Basic module level unit testing, System testing
• Providing support to technical documentation team and field application engineers
• Close collaboration with the Chipset Vendor on the Software Development
• Participations in the Product design and Software Design Documentation – High level / Module level / Low level design
• Troubleshooting software and architectural issues

We are looking for a seasoned Wireless LAN Software Engineer to join our Wireless & Networking team in Chennai, Pollachi, Kochi (Cochin), Gurugram, Manesar, Bengaluru (Bangalore). The candidate must be an experienced Engineer and a good team player, who will work on Wireless software solutions which will enable us to develop the products for our customers quickly with industry leading quality. Working with Embedded Software in agile development projects, you will be responsible for creating and maintaining software of Wireless Access Point and Router Products including Module design, Development, JIRA Updates and Unit testing of the Software that is meeting industry standards, creating demos of the solution and customer support.

Xfinito is building a portfolio in new product innovation, product contribution and infrastructure goals while providing individuals and teams the freedom to emphasize specific types of work.

Our work focuses on real –world problems that span the breadth of biomedical engineering, embedded systems, computer science, such as machine and deep learning, data mining, natural language processing, hardware and software performance analysis and much more.

JOB ROLE: EMBEDDED SYSTEMS ENGINEER

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work with multi-disciplinary engineering team and customer to identify and recommend hardware needs and requirements for project/product.
• Modify or assist in the development of software architecture and design for new products, prototype, or re-design, including sourcing build environments and writing technical support and control documentation.   
• Read Block Diagrams and detail circuit schematics and layout of proposed or existing hardware and assess the software and driver requirements.
• Participates in cross-divisional Edge IoT projects and/or proposals.
• Develop, oversee, and document automated tests for electrical hardware design and products as well as final operating drivers and systems.
• Evaluate and investigate product failures, and recommend repair or design modifications based on specifications, cost, resources, and risks.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Ability to creatively approach challenges and cleverly solve difficult problems.
• Ability to independently identify daily design and customer support tasks, self-start and motivate.
• Ability to manage several projects and prioritize appropriately, with minimal supervision.
• Ability to work in a collaborative team environment as well as independently.
• Ability to learn and work in virtual environments (CAD & Hardware build packages) in-which candidate’s skills are low but persevere and overcome skill gaps autonomously.
• Some experience programming with embedded systems designs and multithreaded real-time operating systems is required.
• Solid programming experience. Preferably in C or C++, .NET, and Java programming languages.

EXPERIENCE:

We as a team are looking for freshers or young professionals with (0-4 years of experience) passion and eagerness to create scalable and optimized software systems and execute complete embedded software development lifecycle.