
Lifespark Technologies is looking for individuals with a passion for impacting real lives through technology. Lifespark is one of the most promising startups in the Assistive Tech space in India, and has been honoured with several National and International awards. Our mission is to create seamless, persistent and affordable healthcare solutions. If you are someone who is driven to make a real impact in this world, we are your people.
Lifespark is currently building solutions for Parkinson’s Disease, and we are looking for an embedded software lead to join our growing team. You will be working directly with the founders on high impact problems in the Neurological Healthcare domain. You will be solving some of the most fundamental and exciting challenges in the industry and will have the ability to see your insights turned into real products every day
Responsibilities :
1. RTOS based multithreaded software development
2. Building future ready, scalable software architectures
3. Liasing with hardware team to decide project requirements
4. Realtime IoT functionality development on ESP32 platform
5. Integration of third party services for cloud based communications and computation
6. Maintaining and documenting software via git (GitLab)
7. Coordinating releases, setup and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines
8. Managing AWS based backend services, integration with AWS services such as S3,
Sagemaker
9. Firmware security, Flash encryption, Bootloader encryption, secure communications
10. Deep integration with hardware team - stress testing hardware
11. Development of device drivers
12. Software testing and maintenance
Recommended experience :
1. Good command over Linux
2. Familiarity with real time tasks and timing sensitive system design
3. Familiarity with BLE/Wifi/etc IoT communication protocols
4. Familiarity with major third party platforms for cloud and ML/AI integration
5. Testing actual physical outcomes of programmed solutions
6. Deep familiarity with ESP-IDF
Location : IIT Bombay, Mumbai
Working mechanism : In-person
Compensation range : 4-12 lpa + ESOPs

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Lifespark Technologies is a healthcare technology company. We build solutions for chronic neurological conditions such as Parkinson's Disease, stroke rehabilitation, etc. Our solutions span the domains of AI/ML, medical devices, mobile applications and web applications.
Lifespark aims to create the basic intelligence that will one day solve health issues at the earliest stage before they have damaging results. Your regular clothes will have integrated Lifespark solutions that will tell you the moment you are exposed to any environmental stimulus that is unsuitable for you personally even if it does not affect others. One day, a 60-year-old will look like today's 30-year-old.
The team at Lifespark is driven by one goal: To create things that re-enable those affected today, and keep their own future selves healthy. If that sounds like you, shout out to us and let's make this happen
Lifespark is incubated with IIT Bombay and is the recipient of several prestigious national awards such as the National Bio-Entrepreneurship Competition, Prosus SICA award and DST-BIRAC awards. We're among the top health tech startups in the country and count many prominent business leaders and academics as our mentors. We have deployed our solutions in partnership with some of the largest healthcare organizations in India and are looking to establish ourselves as the go-to innovator globally
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