Software Engineer - Embedded

Job Summary

Conceptualise, design, code, debug, and perform development activities in accordance with designated standards and procedures to meet specific project requirements.

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Use C++ and modern programming technologies to provide creative, thorough, and practical solutions to a wide range of technical problems.
• Analyse and contribute to system and subsystem requirements specifications and design definitions.
• Design, develop, and test applications and programs to support the company’s telecom and backend systems.
• Follow established quality standards and internal engineering procedures including coding, unit testing, Test-Driven Development (TDD), peer reviews, and software configuration control.
• Complete high- and low-level detailed software design specifications, storyboards, and interface specifications.
• Provide support through the full product lifecycle: conception, delivery, problem-solving, defect maintenance, and customer support (including occasional out-of-hours support).
• Keep up to date with improvements and developments in software engineering, supporting continuous improvement.
• Comply with company policies including code of conduct, quality, security, and occupational health, safety and environmental standards.

Minimum Job Requirements

Education and Qualifications

• Essential: Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
• Desirable:
• Master’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline.
• Certification in a relevant programming language or framework.
• Certified Scrum Master.

Skills, Knowledge and Experience

Essential

• Strong C++ software engineering experience with a proven track record in specification, design, and development.
• Demonstrable experience of defining test plans and test data requirements.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to debug and resolve complex issues.
• Experience with object-oriented design (e.g. UML) and implementation, along with design patterns.
• Ability to contribute to application/system architecture development.
• Ability to build reusable code and libraries with strong documentation practices.
• Experience in Automated Testing (Google Test, VSTest), Test-Driven Development (TDD), Continuous Integration, SOLID and Clean Code principles.
• CI/CD tools such as GIT and Jenkins.
• Agile experience (Scrum/Kanban).
• Experience collaborating with test teams to optimise application/system performance.

Desirable

• Familiarity with industry-specific products or telecom systems.
• Experience with BitBucket, Conan, DOORS, TestRail, JIRA.

C++ Backend/Systems Development Experience

• Strong C++ development background.
• Delivered highly functional, performance-driven, user-friendly applications.
• Multi-threaded application development.
• REST, JSON & web services integration.
• Crash reporting solutions.
• Debugging complex systems (Linux or distributed environments).
• Familiarity with Linux development tools (CLion, Eclipse).
• Understanding Linux-specific concepts and deployment (e.g., RPM, installers).

Desirable

• Experience in other languages: C#, Java, Python, JavaScript, XML.
• Memory and disk I/O optimisation.
• Cryptography knowledge.
• Experience building simulators/test harnesses.
• Valgrind or similar tools.
• NFC/smart card comms exposure (a plus, not required).

Personal Qualities

• Team player, able to collaborate cross-functionally.
• Strong communication skills.
• Organised, able to handle multiple projects.
• Detail-oriented, diligent, and problem-solving mindset.
• Self-motivated, able to work independently.
• Potential for advancement.

Summary

Miko is an advanced consumer robotics innovation lab focused with the mission of Bringing Robotics and AI to every consumer home. Founded by young and dynamic entrepreneurs from IIT Bombay, Miko is a global deep tech company with offices in US, UK and India, and customer base across 140+ countries. Focused on taking Robotics and AI to every consumer home, Miko is the first of its kind "content on subscription" hardware platform for kids powered by patented technology. 

Our flagship products, Miko 3 and Miko Mini (www.miko.ai), are playful companion robots that engage, educate and entertain kids. Their unique approach is to focus on child learning and development through self-initiated contextual topics that encourage conversational learning. It hosts a powerful marketplace for third party content partners to plug their content and connect with Miko users on subscription. 

Miko is powered by a proprietary emotional intelligence and adaptive personality engine, complex conversational and multilingual AI framework, edge and hybrid speech & vision recognition along with an active learning and behavioral analysis engine. All of this is built over an autonomous navigation system, which enables Miko to offer a range of benefits for the user. 

The team at Miko team is an interdisciplinary team consisting of team members from electronics, embedded system, mechanical, industrial, robotics and AI engineering domains, Human Robot Interface designers, UI/UX designers, mobile and cloud software engineers, content creators, artists, mathematicians, neuropsychologists, marketing and sales mavericks, Customer support professionals and knowledge partners. 

The Role

We are looking for a middleware software engineer to join the team. In this role you will be working on designing, developing and optimizing the middleware stack for current as well as new companion robot products.

Work Experience & Qualifications

2 years or higher industry experience in the Software domain. No restrictions on degree/qualifications; only skills matter. (* for Junior role)

Responsibilities

• Designing and developing software on the product to enhance current functionality and add new features. Lead the technical delivery of assigned tasks/projects.
• Consistent coordination and collaboration with the Backend, AI, Product and QA team for efficient development cycles and testing for new features and improvements.
• Operating in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high quality software against aggressive schedules
• Ability to diagnose, troubleshoot and perform root cause analysis of critical business and production issues
• Strong technical leadership with experience building software engineering teams. Demonstrate strong ambiguity resolution skills to be able to break down ambiguous problems into simpler milestones and delegate to junior engineers

Requirements & Skills

• 2+ years of experience as a Software Engineer
• Expertise in C/C++ and Java
• Strong understanding of environment management, release management, code versioning best practices, and deployment methodologies.
• Experience with implementing various communication protocols like I2C, SPI, UART
• Experience working on Embedded Linux OS and Android
• Demonstrated experience in developing multi-threaded applications
• Experience with IPC including socket programming
• Should have hands on experience and thorough knowledge in STL, BOOST understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Experience with using Git as a version control system
• Excellent coding and debugging skills
• Ability to work in a fast paced environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Experience 2- 6 years within SW development

Excellent C/C++ and object-oriented programming skills

Excellent design analysis skills, including experience with software modeling,

Excellent on Linux for CLI or SNMP management related layer for L2 or L3 switches

Experience in telecom is a plus

Flexible, innovative, and driven

Structured and thorough with analytical and troubleshooting skills

Highly motivated team player

Agile way of working

About the Role

In this role, you'll work on design, implementation, and test for Dremio's system internals. If you want to be part of a fast-moving, fun, and accomplished team, we'd love to hear from you.

Responsibilities & ownership

• Own design, implementation, testing, and support of next-generation features related to scalability, reliability, robustness, usability, security, and performance of the product.
• Capable of working Individually and collaboratively with other engineers.
• Collaborate with support and field resources to make sure that customers are successful with Dremio

Requirements

• Fluency in Java and/or C++ with 3 to 5+ years of experience developing production level software
• Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, multi-threaded and asynchronous patterns and their applications towards developing scalable systems
• Experience developing scalable distributed systems and deploying, scaling, and managing microservices
• Experience with  containers and kubernetes for orchestration and container management in private and public clouds (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) a plus
• Excellent communication skills and affinity for collaboration and teamwork
• Interested in and motivated to be  part of a fast-moving startup with a fun and accomplished team
• Startup experience a plus
• B.S. or M.S in Computer Science or a related technical field or equivalent practical experience

Requires a bachelor's degree in area of specialty and experience in the field or in a related area. Familiar with standard concepts, practices, and procedures within a particular field. Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Performs a variety of tasks. A degree of creativity and latitude is required. Typically reports to a supervisor or manager.

Designs, develops, and implements web-based Java applications to support business requirements. Follows approved life cycle methodologies, creates design documents, and performs program coding and testing. Resolves technical issues through debugging, research, and investigation.

Additional Job Details:

Strong in Java, Spring, Spring Boot, REST and developing MicroServices.

Knowledge or experience , Cassandra preferred

Knowledge or experience on Kafka

Good to have but not must

Good to know:

Reporting tools like Splunk/Grafana

Protobuf

Python/Ruby