Linux Kernel Developer

Job Title : Embedded System Software Engineer

Experience Required : 1 to 3 Years

Duration : 6+ Months (Extendable)

Notice Period : Immediate

Job Description :

We are seeking a motivated and skilled Embedded System Software Engineer to join our team.

The ideal candidate will have 1 to 3 Years of experience in embedded software development with a solid foundation in C++ and Qt 5.

This role involves working with embedded Linux systems and contributing to the development and maintenance of robust embedded applications.

Mandatory Skills : C++, Qt 5, Embedded Linux (Yocto preferred), SOAP/REST protocols, Git, problem-solving, and analytical skills.

Key Responsibilities :

• Design, develop, and maintain embedded software applications using C++ and Qt 5.
• Work on embedded Linux systems, with a preference for experience in The Yocto Project.
• Integrate and manage network communication using protocols such as SOAP and REST.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand requirements and deliver high-quality solutions.
• Utilize Git for version control and collaborative development.
• Troubleshoot and debug software and system issues efficiently.
• Continuously improve code quality through code reviews, testing, and optimization.

Required Skills and Qualifications :

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 1 to 3 Years of hands-on experience in software development.
• Proficiency in C++ and Qt 5 Framework.
• Experience working with Embedded Linux; knowledge of Yocto Project is a strong plus.
• Basic understanding of network protocols, including SOAP and REST.
• Familiarity with Git or other version control systems.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.

Preferred Skills (Nice to Have) :

• Experience in cross-compiling and deployment for embedded targets.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools and automated testing for embedded systems.
• Understanding of hardware-software integration challenges.

Are you looking for embedded work where "it compiles" isn't good enough it has to survive 5,000+ km and 30+ days underwater without a single reboot? This is hardware and firmware built for zero-margin-for-error conditions. Read on, if you are interested...

Job Title: Lead - Embedded Engineering

Location: Bangalore | Full-Time | Experience: 8-10 Years

About Client Company

Client Company is building autonomous ships and submarines that operate in the world's most hostile environments. We're executing India's flagship autonomous submarine project — the Jalkapi XLAUV — on order from the Indian Navy. This is an unmanned submarine weighing over 20 tons that can travel 5,000+ kilometers autonomously and operate in the ocean for 30+ days at a time.

We're creating some of the largest autonomous robots in the world, machines with direct impact on the global economy and national security. While autonomous cars in India may still be a dream, autonomous ships and submarines are already a reality, and it is possible to build for the world from India.

The Role

·      We are looking for Lead - Embedded Engineering to own the electrical, electronics, power systems, and firmware that bring our autonomous vessels to life. In this role, you will:

·      Own the vessel’s electrical and embedded systems end-to-end — firmware, PCB design, schematics, wiring, and power electronics.

·      Design the electrical and power architecture of the platform, from board level to whole-vessel wiring.

·      Work closely with our mechanical, software, and robotics teams to integrate, bring up, and field-test the platform.

·      This is a rare opportunity to build the embedded and electrical backbone of real-world autonomous platforms that operate in some of the most challenging environments on the planet.

Key Responsibilities

·      Lead & Own the electrical and embedded systems effort — the firmware, electronics, and power systems that run the vessel.

·      Design & Develop PCBs, schematics, and wiring diagrams for the whole vessel, covering compute, power, communication, and sensor/actuator interfaces.

·      Design driving and power-electronics circuits — DC-DC converters, power supplies, electrical isolation, and protection — with due attention to EMI/EMC.

·      Develop & Maintain firmware for microcontrollers and onboard compute, ensuring reliable real-time operation.

·      Integrate sensors and actuators — such as GNSS, INS/AHRS, altimeters, pressure and depth sensors, acoustic modems, thrusters, fins, and battery systems — into the platform.

·      Support hardware bring-up, wiring, and in water testing of the vessel, in coordination with the mechanical and software teams.

·      Drive power management and energy-system design for long-endurance autonomous operation.

·      Plan and conduct compliance and qualification testing of the electronics and power systems — including EMI/EMC, environmental, and related checks — to ensure the platform meets the required standards.

·      Maintain thorough engineering documentation — schematics, wiring diagrams, design records, and test reports — to ensure traceability and supportability across the platform's life.

·      Establish robust electrical and embedded development, review, and testing practices to ensure dependability during trials and at sea.

·      Support field trials (pool, harbour, and sea) — diagnosing and resolving embedded, electrical, and hardware issues on site.

·      Mentor & Guide embedded engineers and uphold engineering best practices.

Required Qualifications

·      8-10 years of hands-on embedded systems experience spanning firmware, hardware, and power electronics.

·      Strong embedded firmware skills for microcontroller-based systems.

·      Strong hardware design skills — schematic capture, multi-layer PCB design, and board debugging.

·      Experience integrating sensors and actuators over interfaces such as UART, SPI, I2C, CAN, and RS-232/485.

·      A working understanding of how device drivers interface with the higher-level software/autonomy stack.

·      Strong debugging skills across hardware and firmware.

Preferred Experience

·      Background in robotics, marine/subsea systems, defense, automotive, or aerospace.

·      Experience with autonomous or unmanned systems.

·      Familiarity with power system design

Why Join Company

·      Build the Hardware That Brings Autonomy to Life: You will build the electrical, electronics, power systems, and firmware that run autonomous vessels across a range of applications — from our flagship Jalkapi XLAUV, a 20-ton submarine travelling 5,000+ kilometres underwater, on platforms operating from the coast to the deep sea. The challenge of building hardware that runs reliably for weeks, beneath the surface, is unlike anything else being built in India.

·      Mission Impact: The electronics and firmware you build are the nervous system of vessels on live missions — including defence and security operations of national importance. Every board you design and every line of firmware you write directly shapes whether the platform performs, and returns safely.

·      Technical Ownership: You will own the embedded and electrical stack from the ground up — hardware, power, firmware, integration, and bring-up.

·      Cross-Disciplinary Work: Work at the intersection of electronics, power, mechanical, software, and robotics. Few embedded roles let you work this close to the full system you help bring to life.

·      Benefits: Compensation benchmarked to top-quartile for the role, health insurance for you and your family and other benefits.

The Role:

We are seeking a highly skilled Sr Embedded Software Engineer (Python & C++) to manage and improve the software development lifecycle for device firmware systems. The primary focus of this role is to ensure firmware operational reliability, fail-safe implementation, certification compliance, and robust production deployment.

This role is ideal for an engineer experienced in system-level software, firmware validation, testing automation, and production readiness — but not focused on low-level hardware design.

Experience: 6-10 years

Job Location: Hyderabad

Job Type: Permanent

CORE FOCUS AREAS

• Ensure firmware operates reliably in production environments

• Implement and validate fail-safe mechanisms and fallback logic

• Maintain certification compliance across firmware releases

• Drive robust, repeatable production deployment pipelines

• Support field debugging and OTA update validation

IDEAL CANDIDATE PROFILE

• Strong hands-on experience in Python and C++ development

• Background in system-level software and firmware validation

• Experience with testing automation and production readiness

• Comfortable working closely with embedded engineers

• Not required to have low-level hardware design expertise

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

FIRMWARE OPERATIONAL STABILITY

• Ensure firmware operates reliably in production environments

• Implement and validate fail-safe mechanisms and fallback logic

• Monitor watchdog systems, timeout handling & safe state transitions

• Work closely with embedded engineers to validate firmware behavior

PYTHON & C++ DEVELOPMENT

• Develop firmware communication layers & device control applications

• Build diagnostic tools and test automation frameworks

• Optimize performance and memory handling in C++ applications

• Develop production-ready Python tools for deployment, logging & validation

FAIL-SAFE & SAFETY IMPLEMENTATION

• Implement safe boot validation, error recovery & redundancy logic

• Build communication retry systems & safe shutdown protocols

• Design state machines for controlled device operation

• Ensure safe-state transitions on power, comms or hardware failure

PRODUCTION DEPLOYMENT & VALIDATION

• Create secure and repeatable firmware deployment pipelines

• Implement boot image validation, signature verification & rollback

• Develop health monitoring and diagnostic utilities & CI/CD Pipelines

• Support field debugging and OTA update validation

Linux Environment

• Work in Linux-based environments for firmware development, debugging, and deployment — including shell scripting, process/service management, and system diagnostics.

• Own unit testing, integration testing & production release management

• Ensure code quality and compliance with internal standards

IoT + AI

Building the tech behind India's Reverse Vending Machines

SUCCESS METRICS

• Firmware reliability — stable, uninterrupted operation in production environments

• Fail-safe coverage — validated fallback logic, redundancy & safe-state transitions

• Linux Environment - Use Linux for development till deployment

• Deployment success rate — secure, repeatable pipelines with clean rollbacks

• Code & release quality — test coverage, code review discipline & CI/CD health

• Field performance — OTA update success and turnaround on field debugging

Position: Senior Embedded Software Engineer – PCIe / Embedded Linux

Location: Bangalore (Preferred)

Experience: 7+ years

Night Shift

About the Role:

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Embedded Engineer with strong expertise in Embedded Linux and PCIe protocol development. The ideal candidate will have deep technical knowledge of PCIe (Gen4 and above) and experience in developing and debugging embedded systems at both hardware and software levels. Exposure to AI/ML or accelerator-based systems will be considered a strong plus.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and optimize embedded software on Linux and RTOS platforms.
• Implement and validate PCIe-based communication and device drivers (Gen4 minimum, Gen5/6 preferred).
• Work closely with hardware and system teams to debug low-level issues related to PCIe interfaces.
• Develop firmware and system-level software components for high-performance embedded platforms.
• Participate in board bring-up, performance optimization, and hardware/software integration.
• Contribute to system architecture discussions and design reviews.
• Document design, testing procedures, and performance analysis.

Core Skills Required:

• Embedded Linux development (mandatory).
• Deep understanding of PCIe protocols (Gen4 minimum; Gen5/6 preferred).
• Strong knowledge of low-level driver development, DMA, interrupts, and memory management.
• Experience with Embedded RTOS environments.
• Familiarity with hardware debugging tools (e.g., JTAG, logic analyzers, oscilloscopes).
• Proficiency in C/C++ and scripting (Python, Shell).
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.

Preferred Skills (Good to Have):

• Exposure to AI/ML hardware accelerators or data processing units (DPUs).
• Understanding of SoC architecture and high-speed interconnects.
• Experience working with multi-core systems and performance tuning.

Education:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electronics, or related field.

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

Relevant experience: 2-3 years

Responsibilities:

1. Should be good at, C, C++, Linux driver development
2. Should have worked in protocol like i2S, SPI, i2C. rf, 6lowpan, Tcp / Ip stack etc..
3. Experience in porting MbedOS , FreeRTOS to different boards is good.
4. Analyzing and enhancing efficiency, stability and scalability of system resources
5. Design, develop, code, test and debug system software
6. Provide post production support
7. Interface with hardware design and development

Requirements:

1. Proven working experience in software engineering
2. Experience in hands-on development and troubleshooting on embedded targets
3. Solid programming experience in C or C++
4. Adequate knowledge of reading schematics and data sheets for components
5. Strong documentation and writing skills

Note: Self-motivated, goal oriented and good analytical skills.

Position Overview:

This position is part of highly skilled fimrware team that do software board bring up of bare silicon for next generation products. In order to write system software for embedded electronic products, this position requires academic background in electronics engineering to understand hardware concepts such as digital logic, schematics, and microprocessor communications to develop effective embedded software.

Candidate should have complete knowledge of Software development cycle from architecture definition to the implementation.

Responsibilities:

• Must wear multiple hats from analyzing field and factory reported issues to software integration.
• Be a liason for troubleshooting and debugging complex systems and identifying the root cause.
• Develop detailed design documents and customer facing application notes for the system and IOT features for Mobile routers.
• Act as a product lead and be part of bigger team in software bring up.   
• Ability to work on Low level software such as bootloaders and understanding of low level functional blocks is a must.
• Work on Linux kernel and configuration.
• Write or port device drivers for Ethernet, USB, GPIO, LED, Bluetooth, Accelormeter, LCD and touch screen.
• Debug stability issues in data routing between WAN and LAN interfaces.
• Work with Software QA with test plan and execution.
• Work with Hardware team to identify and root cause stability problems.

Experience/Requirements:  

• Demonstrable knowledge of C, C++, Assembly programming skills
• Overall 10+ years of experience in embedded environment preferabily Linux.
• Board bring up proficiency with bootloaders and other low level software, must be very good with debugging techniques.
• Experience in TCP/IP networking is must for trouble shooting throughput and other traffic issues.
• Driver experience with I2C, SPI, UART, LCD, Ethernet, PCIe is a plus.
• Experience with low level debugging using JTAG.
• Experience with Makefiles, and build environments such as PTXDIST, Yocto and Buildroot.    
• Experience with version control such as git and svn.
• Good communication skills and team player.
• Ability to work independently and autonomously to meet deadlines, in a fast-changing environment.

Education:

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.