Senior Firmware Engineer
at Deep-tech company working on transformative motor technology
Do you wish to work for a Deep-tech Indian company developing path-breaking products which are set to disrupt every possible industry and domain?
Our client is building a scalable, cloud-controlled, and rare-earth free platform for designing, building, and deploying electric motors for various applications. It aims towards building transformative technology that will make the motors of the future simpler, smarter, more efficient, and easy-to-build in the long run.
The founders are veteran serial entrepreneurs, product experts, and motor technologists with more than eight decades of experience developing cutting-edge products and technologies. The company is bringing transformative motor technology to the forefront of commercial applications. The company aims to make deep fissures in the extant hydrocarbon and rare-earth-based energy economy to create a greener future.
What you need to join us
Are you a coding ninja, algorithmic genius, with a flair for control systems and a passion to create new path breaking technologies (with a green social impact to boot!)? Does working with a bleeding edge research oriented tech startup excite you? If so, please read on and apply.
Responsibilities
- Take ownership of firmware development for motor controllers
- Identify and develop real-time algorithms for controlling cutting-edge Motors and Generators
- Implement motor control algorithms in microcontrollers
- Debug and diagnose the firmware on the controller hardware
- Develop drivers and HAL firmware as needed for various peripherals
Skills and Experience
- Experience in embedded Firmware development
- In-depth knowledge of C programming knowledge
- Extensive engineering experiences in software development with proven track record of at least one product from concept to production
- Hands on experience with development and debugging of embedded systems
- Experience in working with real-time embedded systems and power electronics
- Experience in working with Microcontroller peripherals such as ADC, Timers, Comparators, Input-capture, PWM etc.
- Experience with microcontrollers from TI, NXP, STM32, PIC, Atmel (ARM based microcontroller experience is preferred)
- Ability to translate mathematical concepts to executable code in resource-constrained microcontroller environments
- Exposure to debugging using lab equipment such as Oscilloscopes, Multimeters, Logic Analyzers, signal generators etc.
- Hands-on experience in bringing up a new hardware with firmware written from scratch
- Experience with simulation software such as Matlab, Simulink etc is highly desirable
- Knowledge and experience of control systems is highly preferred
- Experience in automotive domain is preferable
Character Traits
- Proactive
- Problem solver
- Committed and motivated
- Inquisitive and eager to learn
- Clarity of thinking
- Sense of urgency
- Can-do attitude
- Team player
Education and Experience:
B.E – EE, CS, ME (or equivalent) from a reputed institution with 3 years of experience OR
ME/MS – EE, CS, ME (or equivalent) with 1-2 years of experience
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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
FURIOUS FOX is looking for Embedded Developers with strong coding skills in C & C++ as well as experience with Embedded Linux.
Experience : (Minimum 7-10 yrs)
• Experienced in edge processing for connected building / industrial / consumer
appliances / automotive ECU
• Have a good understanding of IoT platforms and architecture
• Deep experience in operating systems eg: Linux, freeRTOS / kernel development/device drivers.
/ sensor drivers
• Have experience with various low-level communication protocols, memory devices, messaging
framework etc.
• Have a deep understanding of design principles, design patterns, container preparations
• Have developed hardware, OS abstraction layers, and sensor handlers services to manage various BSP, os standards
• Have experience with Python edge packages.
• Have a good understanding about IoT databases for edge computing
• Good understanding of connectivity application protocols and connectivity SDK for Wi-Fi and BT / BLE
• Experienced in arm architecture, peripheral devices and hardware board configurations
• Able to set up debuggers, configure build environments, and compilers and optimize code and performance.
Skills / Tools:
• Expert at object-oriented programming
• Modular programming
• C / C++ / JavaScript / Python
• Eclipse framework
• Target deployment techniques
• IoT framework
• Test framework
Highlights :
• Having AI / ML knowledge in applications
• Have worked on wireless protocols
• Ethernet / Wi-Fi / Bluetooth / BLE
• Highly exploratory attitude
• willing to venture in and learn new
technologies.
• Have done passionate projects based on self-interest.
Hands-on experience in Autosar methodologies and workflows.
• Sound understanding of embedded SW development using C on 32/64 bit microcontrollers.
• Experience in at least one of microcontroller architectures: Renesas RH family, Tricore or PowerPC architecture.
• Automotive Product Development Process knowledge (ASpice, ISO26262)
• Experience in one or more of Autosar BSW Modules stacks.
• Autosar based SWcs development in any domain of cluster, ADAS and IVI system.
• Com stack (FlexRay, CAN, LIN, Ethernet) / Memory Stack/ Diagnostic stack/ OS, Wdg, other services.
• Working knowledge on AUTOSAR ECU software architecture
• Understand the various features provided by AUTOSAR BSW modules and configure BSW modules in Davinci Configurator or similar tools
• Understand the AUTOSAR application (SW-C) configuration and the interaction of AUTOSAR applications (SW-C) with the underlying BSW modules
• Understand the functionality of RTE, mapping of application entities with BSW module parameters, OS scheduling concepts, ECU and BSW module state changes
• Understand the AUTOSAR methodology (ECU extract contents, import of ECU extract into configuration tool)
Understand the flow of the AUTOSAR software from application till the underlying driver.
- 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
Summary:
The embedded systems engineer designs, develops, tests, and maintains embedded systems. The engineer will identify and fix issues and work collaboratively with engineers, product managers, and others on various teams.
Responsibilities:
- Design and build embedded systems, including embedded system firmware
- Test and debug the systems
- Monitor and maintain the system after development
- Improve system efficiency and stability after development
- Collaborate with customers to create systems based on their needs
Requirements:
- Minimum of a bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering
- Professional experience in embedded systems
- Significant programming experience in C or C++
- Experience in trouble-shooting embedded systems and microcontroller peripherals
- Experience in working in real-time operating systems
- Experience in interfaces, IP protocols, and hardware subsystems
- Proficiency in working with common embedded systems communication protocols
- Strong interpersonal and writing skills
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills
- Self-motivated and passionate about your work and embedded systems
- Always eager to learn and improve
Develop firmware, system software for medical devices\ Automotive ECUs\ IoT edge devices & gateways. Implement the logic and protocols and communications on 32-bit microcontrollers, configure OS, timers, tasks, interrupts, and communicate with external modems, SoCs, trans-receivers to design, code, and test desired functionality as per customer requirements
Job Requirements :
- Hands-on experience in firmware development using C language
- Hands-on experience in writing low-level device drivers for microcontrollers
- Know of real-time Operating system concepts, tasks, and interrupts’ configuration
- Hands-on experience with in-circuit debuggers
- Knowhow of wired and wireless communication protocols
- Basic understanding of HW circuits, power supply designs, sensors, and actuators’ interfaces
- Experience in implementing SW development quality processes like ISO 9001 or ASPICE
- Good written and oral communication skills
- Extensive knowledge of linux kernel internals.
- Good knowledge of C programming language.
- Familiarity with any processor architecture, virtualization, storage and network management.
- Strong experience in debugging linux kernel mode
- Debugging experience across hardware and platform firmware.