Embedded Systems Engineer - 100% REMOTE

Embedded Systems Engineer

Reports to: Embedded Linux/Open WRT Engineer (Lead)

Location: India

Employment type: Full-time

About the Role

Owns the earliest, most hardware-adjacent stage of bring-up — bootloader, board bring-up, and hardware validation — so the rest of the squad has a working board to build on.

Key Responsibilities

• Port, configure, and maintain U-Boot for the device's board revisions
• Lead board bring-up for new hardware revisions: verify power sequencing, clocking, memory, and peripheral bus initialization
• Build and run hardware validation test plans for each board revision, in partnership with the QA/Test Engineer
• Debug boot failures and hardware faults using JTAG, serial console, oscilloscope, and logic analyzer
• Maintain the hardware-in-the-loop test lab (dev boards, RF test gear) alongside QA
• Flag hardware design issues back to the external hardware/EE function or contract manufacturer early

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of embedded systems experience, with hands-on U-Boot or comparable bootloader experience
• Direct board bring-up experience — has taken hardware from first power-on to a stable, bootable state
• Comfortable with lab instruments (JTAG, oscilloscope, logic analyzer, multimeter)
• Working knowledge of C and low-level hardware interfaces (SPI, I2C, UART, GPIO)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience bringing up boards for telecom or IoT connectivity devices
• Familiarity with OpenWRT or embedded Linux boot flows
• Exposure to hardware design review or design-for-manufacturing feedback

Tech Stack

U-Boot, C, JTAG/serial/oscilloscope tooling, OpenWRT boot flow

What Success Looks Like (First Two Quarters)

Current board revision passes its full hardware validation test plan; boot time and bring-up documentation finalized; hardware-in-the-loop lab operationa