Senior Hardware Design Engineer

Job Title

Hardware Engineer

Job Summary

We are seeking a Hardware Engineer to design, develop, and support low-power electronic hardware systems, from concept through production. The role involves schematic design, PCB layout, component selection, and collaboration with firmware and mechanical teams to deliver reliable and manufacturable hardware solutions.

Key Responsibilities

·        Design electronic circuits and develop schematics and PCB layouts

·        Select components based on performance, power, cost, and availability

·        Develop and review battery-operated designs

·        Ensure designs meet electrical, thermal, and reliability requirements

·        Support hardware bring-up, debugging, and validation

·        Prepare BOMs, Gerbers, and manufacturing documentation

·        Work closely with firmware, and testing team

·        Review and improve designs for DFM/DFA and production readiness

Required Qualifications

·        Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field

·        Strong understanding of analog and digital electronics

·        Experience with PCB design tools (Altium, KiCad, Eagle, or similar)

·        Familiarity with microcontrollers and embedded systems

·        Ability to read datasheets and apply reference designs

·        Basic knowledge of EMI/ESD protection and signal integrity

Preferred Qualifications

·        Experience with low-power or battery-operated hardware

·        Exposure to IoT devices, sensors, or communication modules

·        Experience supporting prototype to production transitions

·        Knowledge of manufacturing and testing processes

·        Ability to document designs clearly and professionally

Experience Level

·        2+ years

Soft Skills

·        Strong problem-solving skills

·        Ability to work independently and in cross-functional teams

·        Good communication and documentation skills

Basic Qualification: BE / Btech Computer Science

Desirable Skills:

1.Software development using Embedded C, C++ with programming standards (MISRA)

2.Knowledge of bus systems, which are used in the automotive industry, like CAN, LIN, I2C, SPI, etc)

3.Software development processes –A-SPICE V-cycle

4.Experience with development of control units for the automotive industry, especially experience with the development based on AUTOSTAR basic software.

5. Experience in the automotive industry according to common development and parameterization tools (i.e. Vector CANoe).

6.Knowledge of standards for safety-critical software (ISO 26262) is a plus.

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

• 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 Responsibilities

Responsibilities for this position include, but are not limited to, the following.

Understand requirements and create low-level design using UML

Develop embedded software as per defined software requirements

Software integration & testing

Background & Skills

Education:

B.E/B. Tech/M.Tech/Master (Electronics/Telecommunications/Computers Science)OR equivalent

Experience & Attributes:

2-8 years’ experience in Embedded system software design, development, and testing.

Excellent communication skills, spoken and written English

Must have specialized knowledge :

·  Embedded C

·  Electronics

·  RTOS

·  Knowledge of Microcontrollers (RISC, CISC)

·  CAN Communication & Protocols like UDS, KWP2000, CANopen and J1939

·  MISRA standard - 2000/MISRA 2012

·  SDLC, Agile Scrum

·  Static analysis & Tools like LDRA or QAC or Vector cast

·  Change Management & Tools like JIRA/VSTS

·  Version control & Tools like SVN/GIT/Clearcase

·  Traceability management & Tools like Reqtify or equivalent

·  Design methodologies - like UML

·  Software Test Life Cycle

Specialized knowledge – Will be Preferred

·  Functional Safety life-cycle & Management - Applies to software design & development

·  Safety standards like - IEC-61508, ISO-26262, ISO-25119, ISO-13849

Key Tasks and Responsibilities

·  Software requirement specification writing

·  Creating design for assigned modules

·  Implementing the code for assigned requirements

·  Perform unit testing

·  Perform peer reviews or inspection of software work products

·  Support testing team on defect analysis

·  Adhere to Quality processes

Xfinito is building a portfolio in new product innovation, product contribution and infrastructure goals while providing individuals and teams the freedom to emphasize specific types of work.

Our work focuses on real –world problems that span the breadth of biomedical engineering, embedded systems, computer science, such as machine and deep learning, data mining, natural language processing, hardware and software performance analysis and much more.

JOB ROLE: EMBEDDED SYSTEMS ENGINEER

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work with multi-disciplinary engineering team and customer to identify and recommend hardware needs and requirements for project/product.
• Modify or assist in the development of software architecture and design for new products, prototype, or re-design, including sourcing build environments and writing technical support and control documentation.   
• Read Block Diagrams and detail circuit schematics and layout of proposed or existing hardware and assess the software and driver requirements.
• Participates in cross-divisional Edge IoT projects and/or proposals.
• Develop, oversee, and document automated tests for electrical hardware design and products as well as final operating drivers and systems.
• Evaluate and investigate product failures, and recommend repair or design modifications based on specifications, cost, resources, and risks.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Ability to creatively approach challenges and cleverly solve difficult problems.
• Ability to independently identify daily design and customer support tasks, self-start and motivate.
• Ability to manage several projects and prioritize appropriately, with minimal supervision.
• Ability to work in a collaborative team environment as well as independently.
• Ability to learn and work in virtual environments (CAD & Hardware build packages) in-which candidate’s skills are low but persevere and overcome skill gaps autonomously.
• Some experience programming with embedded systems designs and multithreaded real-time operating systems is required.
• Solid programming experience. Preferably in C or C++, .NET, and Java programming languages.

EXPERIENCE:

We as a team are looking for freshers or young professionals with (0-4 years of experience) passion and eagerness to create scalable and optimized software systems and execute complete embedded software development lifecycle.