Senior Hardware Design Engineer

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

Role: Sr. Principle Engineer -Firmware

Experience: 8 to 10 Yrs.

Job description:

Primary skills:

-        At least 8 years of working experience on embedded firmware development

-        Experience in multithreaded programming, network programming (wired and wireless protocols), real-time programming, cross-platform and cross-language development

-        Prior experience with overseeing board bring-up and validation

-        Hands-on experience on driver development for various sensors,Flash,PMIC

-        Working knowledge of communication protocols like UART, I2C, SPI, USB, Ethernet, etc

-        Product development experience with range of microcontroller/microprocessor architectures, adoption of bare-metal, RTOS and Linux operating systems on new platforms

-        Minimum 2+ years of experience doing hands-on software development in Bluetooth domain; application, framework, Bluetooth stack or drivers

-        Working Experience In display driver development with MIPI/LVDS/QSPI will be a value addition

-        Experience with hardware lab equipment such as digital scope, logic analyser and JTAG

-        Understanding of embedded development constraints and system performance

-        Hands-on Experience on System level integration

-        Experience with programming in C/C++/python

-        Experience in reading schematics

Secondary skills:

-        Version Control System

-        Working experience on BLE SoC like Nordic, Ambiq, Dailog

-        Bug Tracking

• 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

Job Description

Embedded Software/Firmware Design and Development on OS/Non-OS based platform

Necessary system architecture development and implementation

Device, sensor and gateway selection and integration based on industry use case.

Development on Image Analytics and Cloud/Platform integration

Development or integration of Cloud/Platform communication protocol

Technical Documentation and Testing of the developed system

Desired Skills, Knowledge& Experience

B. Tech/M. Tech/MCA with 8-10 years of industry experience

Strong programming skills in C/C++ and Python development in Linux

Experience in device or sensor communication interfaces (wired/wireless, short range/long range).

Experience of microcontroller and microprocessor.

Knowledge of IoT gateway firmware development, container, and OS hardening.

Experience in device communication protocol, Edge computing and processing

Competent in application development for Image processing, transmission, and storage

Good understanding and of programming primitives, data structures, multi-threading and memory management techniques

Strong command over complex sensor and hardware control logic to work seamlessly with edge devices or gateway

Proactive and Self motivated

Strong verbal and written communication skill

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

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS, Roles and responsibilties:

• BS/MS in Computer Engineering or related technology field
• 10+ Years of Experience in Software Development
• Experience in  writing code for embedded systems, Proficient in C/C++ coding and intel DPDK
• Understanding of network interface drivers
• Experience with VMware, AWS, MSAzure, Google Cloud Platform.
• Knowledge of micro services and containerization
• Experience in building Networking Security Products
• Knowledge of Networking, TCP/IP Protocol Suite
• Design, code embedded features/solutions for the ShieldX Product
• Design write, extend and troubleshoot datapath code for switching, routing, NAT, TCP and TLS
• Work closely with other development , Product and Test Teams

• BS/MS in Computer Engineering or related technology field
• Excellent communication and Team player skills
• Should be a self-starter and be able to adopt to dynamic fast-paced environment.
• Able to work 40 hours a week