
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.

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Location: Bengaluru
Experience: 8+ Years
Mandatory Skills:
- C++ and C# programming
- Windows system-level programming
- Strong OOP, data structures, algorithms, and design patterns
Desired Skills:
- Knowledge of security fundamentals (authentication, cryptography)
- Familiarity with networking protocols (TCP/IP, TLS/SSL)
- Experience with REST clients and Windows security mechanisms
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain Windows-based applications
- Write clean, efficient code and perform code reviews
- Collaborate with team members and communicate effectively
- Contribute to testing strategies and ensure software quality
- Prepare technical documentation and provide project status updates
Soft Skills:
- Self-driven and proactive
- Strong communication and teamwork skills
Contract Duration: 6 months
Responsibilities
- Design and implement software of embedded devices and systems from requirements to production and commercial deployment
- Design, develop, code, test and debug system software
- Review code and design
- Analyze and enhance efficiency, stability and scalability of system resources
- Integrate and validate new product designs
- Support software QA and optimize I/O performance
- Provide post production support
- Interface with hardware design and development
- Assess third party and open source software
Requirements
- Proven working experience in software engineering
- BS degree in Computer Science or Engineering
- Experience in hands-on development and troubleshooting on embedded targets
- Solid programming experience in C or C++
- Proven experience in embedded systems design with preemptive, multitasking real-time operating systems
- Familiarity with software configuration management tools, defect tracking tools, and peer review
- Excellent knowledge of OS coding techniques, IP protocols, interfaces and hardware subsystems
- Adequate knowledge of reading schematics and data sheets for components
- Strong documentation and writing skills
Location: Bangalore
About Us
Valiance is a global AI & Data analytics firm helping clients build cutting-edge technology solutions for
digital transformation. We work with some of the marquee brands across India, US and APAC to build
transformative solutions for Credit Risk, Fraud, Predictive Maintenance, Quality Inspection, Data lake, IOT
analytics etc. Our team comprises 100+ professionals across Machine Learning, Data Engineering & Cloud
expertise
Required Technical and Professional Expertise:
Must have 4 -10 Years of Experience.
Graduate/Post Graduate in engineering, statistics, or a highly quantitative field
Hands on Experience in Embedded C with Linux (Train & Deploy Model)
Hands on Experience in Embedded System, c , Linux
Experience with any Advance Embedded system design Programmer Certification advantage.
Have Knowledge of OS: Linux, Embedded Linux & Linux Tools
Language – C ( Mandatory ), Shell, Python
Personal Skills:
Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
Ability to manage stakeholders' expectations and work in a high-pressure environment.
Demonstrate strong ownership & commitment to the cause of customer success.
A team player capable of high performance, flexibility in a dynamic working environment and the
ability to lead
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Electronics Engineering with 1-3 years of relevant experience.
- Highly experienced in Embedded C, C++ coding as per MISRA standards
- Experience in firmware programming for 8 bit, 16 bit and 32 bit controllers.
- Knowledgeable in Linker Scripts, Make files & firmware debugging using JTAG or on the UART console.
- Experienced in Communication peripherals like SPI, UART, I2C, CAN, etc.
- Ideation, designing, prototyping, and developing as per product requirements.
- Expertise in system architecture and design for Embedded software systems.
- Develop modular Embedded Code to port into different projects.
- Experience on Real Time Systems and Scheduling mechanisms
- Development experience in "middleware" / “application” / Low layer.
- Experience with developing embedded code for networking technologies like TCP/IP and UDP would be a plus.
- Document state machine diagrams, flow charts to understand the system architecture
- Working closely with Design teams to understand Hardware Implementation.
- Develop Test methods, in some cases automated test cases to test the firmware code and support hardware engineers.
- Use Debuggers, oscilloscopes, power supplies, and other necessary electrical tools to debug the code for problem-solving.
- Excellent reading skills for complete understanding of technical documents such as Processor Architecture Specifications and MCU hardware manuals, schematics etc.
- Ability to generate ideas in response to complex issues and execute on solutions.
- Python programming is a big plus.
- Works towards developing Stable & Efficient Firmwares for Embedded
- Responsible for developing Firmware which are Stable, Efficient and scalable.
- Responsible to create coherent and scalable architecture designs.
- Responsible for understanding and utilizing best BLE / IOT
- Responsible for understanding various RTOS design principles.
- Qualification: B.E. / B.Tech / M.C.A. in Computer Sciences.
- Must Proficient in Embedded C, C++, BLE, Zephyr RTOS, nRF.
- Ready to work from home.
- Should have above 4 years of experience.








