Software Engineer

Python Embedded Engineer

📍 Location: Chennai

💼 Experience: 3+ Years

💰 Budget: ₹1.2 LPM

🔍 Role Overview

We are looking for a skilled Python Embedded Engineer with hands-on experience in embedded systems. The ideal candidate will work closely with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and optimize software solutions that interact with hardware platforms.

We prefer candidates who are reliable, strong communicators, and technically sound.

🛠️ Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain robust Python-based applications
• Work on embedded system software development & integration
• Collaborate with hardware, firmware, and system teams
• Optimize software performance for embedded environments
• Debug, troubleshoot, and resolve system-level issues
• Participate in code reviews and follow coding standards
• Support testing, validation, and product release

✅ Required Skills

• 3+ years of experience in Python development
• Strong understanding of software development fundamentals
• Experience or exposure to embedded systems (mandatory)
• Knowledge of hardware-software interaction & communication protocols
• Familiarity with Git/version control systems
• Strong analytical, problem-solving & communication skills

➕ Good to Have

• Experience with C/C++
• Knowledge of RTOS or Linux-based embedded systems
• Experience with microcontrollers, sensors, or device drivers
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines & automated testing

🎯 Ideal Candidate

• Trustworthy and dependable
• Strong communication skills
• Ability to work in a cross-functional environment

7th Unit is building a wheeled upper-body humanoid robot for industrial deployment in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. This is a founding role, you own the perception architecture from day one.

What you'll do

• Build and own the full perception stack for v1 — object detection, depth estimation, workspace understanding
• Integrate perception with manipulation and motion planning systems
• Deploy and optimize perception pipelines on edge hardware (Jetson Orin or equivalent)
• Work directly on the physical robot — debugging real hardware, not simulations
• Develop the data pipeline for continuous improvement of perception performance

What we need

• 3+ years building perception systems for real robotic platforms — not research only
• Strong foundation in computer vision, 3D data processing, and sensor fusion
• Proficiency in Python and C++, hands-on experience with ROS2
• Experience deploying perception on edge compute hardware
• You have debugged a perception system on a physical robot under real operating conditions

Structure

• Position starts Q3 2026
• Equity negotiated directly, founding engineer package
• Remote during pre-build phase. In-person required from prototype assembly onward

Senior BLE Firmware Software Engineer

About Company

https://espressif.com/">Espressif Systems (688018) is a public multinational, fabless semiconductor company established in 2008, with headquarters in Shanghai and offices in Greater China, India and Europe. We have a passionate team of engineers and scientists from all over the world, focused on developing cutting-edge WiFi-and-Bluetooth, low-power IoT solutions. We have created the popular ESP8266 and ESP32 series of chips, modules and development boards. By leveraging wireless computing, we provide green, versatile and cost-effective chipsets. We have always been committed to offering IoT solutions that are secure, robust and power-efficient. By open-sourcing our technology, we aim to enable developers to use Espressif’s technology globally and build smart connected devices. In July 2019, Espressif made its Initial Public Offering on the Sci-Tech Innovation Board (STAR) of the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE).

Espressif has opened a Technology Center in Pune (Baner), India, which will focus on embedded software engineering and IoT solutions development for our growing customers.

About the Role

Espressif is looking for Embedded Software Engineers to join the software department located in India. You will work in a diverse team where your colleagues are from Czech, Russia, India, Australia and so forth. Here, you get a chance to be a member of the core team in Espressif and work with talented engineers from all over the world.

The BLE Firmware Development Team is now focused on the development of the Bluetooth 5.x standard and BLE Mesh standard.

BLE FW Team is looking for a self-starting, high-technical, energetic individual with keen attention to details. The Candidate will be actively involved in:

1. Development of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Firmware for Espressif Bluetooth chips.
2. Development of new firmware for BLE latest specification (BLE 5.x, BLE Mesh, etc).
3. Development of BLE chip validation and Bluetooth Qualification.
4. Research of cutting-edge and challenging Bluetooth technologies (BLE Audio, BLE Direction Finding, Next-Generation BLE Chip, etc).
5. Supporting the existing firmware through feature additions, enhancements and maintenance.
6. Working with systems team and cross-functional teams to deliver quality software following well-established software development processes.
7. Resolving issues as reported by internal test teams as well as customers.

Requirements

Required skills

1. Bachlor's degree or above in Electronic Engineering, Communications Engineering, Automation or other related majors
2. Familiarity with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) protocol or BLE Mesh protocol
3. Proven experience in developing BLE stack / firmware (2+ years, both BLE host and controller) or BLE Mesh stack (2+ years)
4. Experience with software engineering processes and the full software development lifecycle including requirements, design, implementation, testing, and documenting in Continuous Integration environment
5. Strong experience and proficiency in C programming (3+ years) for embedded platforms required
6. Excellent problem solving and debugging skills

Bonus point

1. Experience in developing BLE profiles and BLE applications (e.g. HID, ANCS, Homekit, etc)
2. Good understanding of other networking protocol stacks is highly desired (e.g. Zigbee, IEEE 802.11, UWB, Lora, NB-IoT, etc)
3. Strong Real-time systems and software engineering skills required (e.g. FreeRTOS, etc)
4. One or more scripting languages (e.g. Python, etc)
5. Experience with variety of software productivity tools (e.g. Git, Jira, etc)

What to expect from our interview process

• The first step is to email your resume or apply to the relevant open position, along with a sample of something you have worked on such as a public GitHub repo or side project etc.
• Next, post shortlisting your profile recruiter will get in touch with you via a mechanism that works for you e.g. via email, phone. This will be a short chat to learn more about your background and interests, to share more about the job and Espressif, and to answer any initial questions you have.
• Successful candidates will then be invited for 2 to 3 rounds of technical interview as per previous round feedback.
• Finally, Successful candidates will have interview with HR.

What you offer us

• Ability to provide technical solutions, support that fosters collaboration and innovation.
• Ability to balance a variety of technical needs and priorities according to Espressif’s growing needs.

What we offer

• An open minded, collaboration culture of enthusiastic technologist.
• Competitive salary
• 100% company paid medical/dental/vision/life coverage
• Frequent trainings by experienced colleagues and chances to take international trips, attend exhibitions, technical meetups and seminars.

Talented C++ Developer who has experience in design, development, debugging of multi-threaded large scale application with good understanding in data structures on Linux packaging, functional testing and deployment automation very good with problem solving.

Key responsibilities :

1. Understand fundamental design principles and best practices for developing backend servers and web applications
2. Gather requirements, scope functionality, estimate and translate those requirements into solutions
3. Implement and integrate software features as per requirements
4. Deliver across the entire app life cycle
5. Work in a product creation project and/or technology project with implementation or integration responsibilities
6. Improve an existing code base, if required, and ability to read source code to understand data flow and origin
7. Design effective data storage for the task at hand and know how to optimize query performance along the way
8. Follow an agile methodology of development and delivery
9. Strictly adhere to coding standards and internal practices; must be able to conduct review code
10. Mentor and possibly lead junior developers
11. Contribute towards innovation
12. Performance optimization of apps
13. Explain technologies and solutions to technical and non-technical stakeholders
14. Diagnose bugs and other issues in products
15. Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency

Must have / Good to have:

1. 5-7years' experience with C++ development and relevant 3+yrs in modern version 11/14/17 would be a plus. 
2. Design and implementation of high-availability, and performance applications on Linux environment
3. Advanced knowledge of C/C++, Object Oriented Design, STL
4. Good with multithreading and data structures
5. Develop back-end components to improve responsiveness and overall performance
6. Familiarity with database design, integration with applications and python packaging.
7. Familiarity with front-end technologies (like JavaScript and HTML5), REST API, security considerations
8. Familiarity with functional testing and deployment automation frameworks
9. Experience in development for 3-4 production ready application using C++ as programming language
10. Experience in writing unit test cases including positive and negative test cases
11. Experience of CI/CD pipeline code deployment (Git, SVN, Jenkins or Teamcity)
12. Experience with Agile and DevOps methodology
13. Very good problem-solving skills
14. Experience with Web technologies is a plus. 

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• 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.
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• 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.