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PythonThe Role:
We are seeking a highly skilled Sr Embedded Software Engineer (Python & C++) to manage and improve the software development lifecycle for device firmware systems. The primary focus of this role is to ensure firmware operational reliability, fail-safe implementation, certification compliance, and robust production deployment.
This role is ideal for an engineer experienced in system-level software, firmware validation, testing automation, and production readiness — but not focused on low-level hardware design.
Experience: 6-10 years
Job Location: Hyderabad
Job Type: Permanent
CORE FOCUS AREAS
• Ensure firmware operates reliably in production environments
• Implement and validate fail-safe mechanisms and fallback logic
• Maintain certification compliance across firmware releases
• Drive robust, repeatable production deployment pipelines
• Support field debugging and OTA update validation
IDEAL CANDIDATE PROFILE
• Strong hands-on experience in Python and C++ development
• Background in system-level software and firmware validation
• Experience with testing automation and production readiness
• Comfortable working closely with embedded engineers
• Not required to have low-level hardware design expertise
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
FIRMWARE OPERATIONAL STABILITY
• Ensure firmware operates reliably in production environments
• Implement and validate fail-safe mechanisms and fallback logic
• Monitor watchdog systems, timeout handling & safe state transitions
• Work closely with embedded engineers to validate firmware behavior
PYTHON & C++ DEVELOPMENT
• Develop firmware communication layers & device control applications
• Build diagnostic tools and test automation frameworks
• Optimize performance and memory handling in C++ applications
• Develop production-ready Python tools for deployment, logging & validation
FAIL-SAFE & SAFETY IMPLEMENTATION
• Implement safe boot validation, error recovery & redundancy logic
• Build communication retry systems & safe shutdown protocols
• Design state machines for controlled device operation
• Ensure safe-state transitions on power, comms or hardware failure
PRODUCTION DEPLOYMENT & VALIDATION
• Create secure and repeatable firmware deployment pipelines
• Implement boot image validation, signature verification & rollback
• Develop health monitoring and diagnostic utilities & CI/CD Pipelines
• Support field debugging and OTA update validation
Linux Environment
• Work in Linux-based environments for firmware development, debugging, and deployment — including shell scripting, process/service management, and system diagnostics.
• Own unit testing, integration testing & production release management
• Ensure code quality and compliance with internal standards
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SUCCESS METRICS
• Firmware reliability — stable, uninterrupted operation in production environments
• Fail-safe coverage — validated fallback logic, redundancy & safe-state transitions
• Linux Environment - Use Linux for development till deployment
• Deployment success rate — secure, repeatable pipelines with clean rollbacks
• Code & release quality — test coverage, code review discipline & CI/CD health
• Field performance — OTA update success and turnaround on field debugging
PythonMANDATORY CRITERIA:
- Education: B.Tech / M.Tech in ECE / CSE / IT
- Experience: 10–12 years in hardware board design, system hardware engineering, and full product deployment cycles
- Proven expertise in digital, analog, and power electronic circuit analysis & design
- Strong hands-on experience designing boards with SoCs, FPGAs, CPLDs, and MPSoC architectures
- Deep understanding of signal integrity, EMI/EMC, and high-speed design considerations
- Must have successfully completed at least two hardware product development cycles from high-level design to final deployment
- Ability to independently handle schematic design, design analysis (DC drop, SI), and cross-team design reviews
- Experience in sourcing & procurement of electronic components, PCBs, and mechanical parts for embedded/IoT/industrial hardware
- Strong experience in board bring-up, debugging, issue investigation, and cross-functional triage with firmware/software teams
- Expertise in hardware validation, test planning, test execution, equipment selection, debugging, and report preparation
- Proficiency in Cadence Allegro or Altium EDA tools (mandatory)
- Experience coordinating with layout, mechanical, SI, EMC, manufacturing, and supply chain teams
- Strong understanding of manufacturing services, production pricing models, supply chain, and logistics for electronics/electromechanical components
DESCRIPTION:
COMPANY OVERVIEW:
The company is a semiconductor and embedded system design company with a focus on Embedded, Turnkey ASICs, Mixed Signal IP, Semiconductor & Product Engineering and IoT solutions catering to Aerospace & Defence, Consumer Electronics, Automotive, Medical and Networking & Telecommunications.
REQUIRED SKILLS:
- Extensive experience in hardware board designs and towards multiple product field deployment cycles.
- Strong foundation and expertise in analyzing digital, Analog and power electronic circuits.
- Proficient with SoC, FPGAs, CPLD and MPSOC architecture-based board designs.
- Knowledgeable in signal integrity, EMI/EMC concepts for digital and power electronics.
- Completed at least two project from high-level design to final product level deployment.
- Capable of independently managing product’s schematic, design analysis DC Drop, Signal Integrity, and coordinating reviews with peer of layout, mechanical, SI, and EMC teams.
- Sourcing and procurement of electronic components, PCBs, and mechanical parts for cutting-edge IoT, embedded, and industrial product development.
- Experienced in board bring-up, issue investigation, and triage in collaboration with firmware and software teams.
- Skilled in preparing hardware design documentation, validation test planning, identifying necessary test equipment, test development, execution, debugging, and report preparation.
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills for collaborative work with cross-functional teams, including post-silicon bench validation, BIOS, and driver development/QA.
- Hands-on experience with Cadence Allegro/Altium EDA tools is essential.
- Familiarity with programming and scripting languages like Python and Perl, and experience in test automation is advantageous.
- Should have excellent exposure with coordination of Manufacturing Services, pricing model for production value supply chain & Logistics in electronics and electromechanical components domain.
PythonMANDATORY CRITERIA:
- Education: B.Tech / M.Tech in ECE / CSE / IT
- Experience: 10–12 years in hardware board design, system hardware engineering, and full product deployment cycles
- Proven expertise in digital, analog, and power electronic circuit analysis & design
- Strong hands-on experience designing boards with SoCs, FPGAs, CPLDs, and MPSoC architectures
- Deep understanding of signal integrity, EMI/EMC, and high-speed design considerations
- Must have successfully completed at least two hardware product development cycles from high-level design to final deployment
- Ability to independently handle schematic design, design analysis (DC drop, SI), and cross-team design reviews
- Experience in sourcing & procurement of electronic components, PCBs, and mechanical parts for embedded/IoT/industrial hardware
- Strong experience in board bring-up, debugging, issue investigation, and cross-functional triage with firmware/software teams
- Expertise in hardware validation, test planning, test execution, equipment selection, debugging, and report preparation
- Proficiency in Cadence Allegro or Altium EDA tools (mandatory)
- Experience coordinating with layout, mechanical, SI, EMC, manufacturing, and supply chain teams
- Strong understanding of manufacturing services, production pricing models, supply chain, and logistics for electronics/electromechanical components
DESCRIPTION:
COMPANY OVERVIEW:
The company is a semiconductor and embedded system design company with a focus on Embedded, Turnkey ASICs, Mixed Signal IP, Semiconductor & Product Engineering and IoT solutions catering to Aerospace & Defence, Consumer Electronics, Automotive, Medical and Networking & Telecommunications.
REQUIRED SKILLS:
- Extensive experience in hardware board designs and towards multiple product field deployment cycles.
- Strong foundation and expertise in analyzing digital, Analog and power electronic circuits.
- Proficient with SoC, FPGAs, CPLD and MPSOC architecture-based board designs.
- Knowledgeable in signal integrity, EMI/EMC concepts for digital and power electronics.
- Completed at least two project from high-level design to final product level deployment.
- Capable of independently managing product’s schematic, design analysis DC Drop, Signal Integrity, and coordinating reviews with peer of layout, mechanical, SI, and EMC teams.
- Sourcing and procurement of electronic components, PCBs, and mechanical parts for cutting-edge IoT, embedded, and industrial product development.
- Experienced in board bring-up, issue investigation, and triage in collaboration with firmware and software teams.
- Skilled in preparing hardware design documentation, validation test planning, identifying necessary test equipment, test development, execution, debugging, and report preparation.
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills for collaborative work with cross-functional teams, including post-silicon bench validation, BIOS, and driver development/QA.
- Hands-on experience with Cadence Allegro/Altium EDA tools is essential.
- Familiarity with programming and scripting languages like Python and Perl, and experience in test automation is advantageous.
- Should have excellent exposure with coordination of Manufacturing Services, pricing model for production value supply chain & Logistics in electronics and electromechanical components domain.
Primary skills:
At least 3+ 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
- Hands-on experience on driver development for various sensors
- 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
-Hands-on experience on software development in Bluetooth domain is added advantage
- Experience with hardware lab equipment such as digital scope, logic analyser and JTAG
- Understanding of embedded development constraints and system performance
- Experience with programming in C/C++ and Embedded C
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
.NET
C#Skills:
- .NET framework, VB, C#
- HTML 5, Bootstrap, CSS, Less .
- Communication Protocols like HTTP, TCP, WCF, Web API, Modbus.
- Databases- MS SQL Server 2008 R2, MySQL. Knowledge on Redis, MongoDB.
- Scripting language -Java-Script, jQuery, AngularJS, SignalR, Ajax.
- AWS SDK preferred, Cloud Migration., IIS, Self-hosting, window server,
- Other tools -Postman & Fiddler, Tortoise SVN, Mantis bug tracking, Redmine.
Key Strengths :
- Good debugging skills.
- A major responsibility includes planning development cycle, designing, module development, code merge, Unit / Integration testing etc.
- Highly motivated team player.
- Experience in working on multiple projects simultaneously.
- Quick learning of any new technologies.
- Capable to take independent responsibility as well as ability to contribute and be a productive team member.
Key responsibilities:
- Involved into discussion of design and development of new feature enhancement.
- Involved in integration with the IoT devices over the TCP binary protocol.
- Involved in design and development of Web API to expose the data uploaded by devices to third party applications.
- Coordinating with the testing team for fixing bugs.
- Coordinating with firmware (Embedded) team for device integration.
- End to end design and development of modules.
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