Senior Firmware Engineer

Senior Firmware Engineer

Responsible for designing, developing, and validating low-level software that directly interfaces with electronic hardware components.

Location : Whitefield

Interview round : L1 Virtual & L2 F2F

Work Mode : WFO (5 days)

Role Summary

• Job Title: Senior Firmware Engineer
• Experience Level: 5+ years of hands-on embedded systems development.
• Core Purpose: To architect, implement, and optimize robust firmware code for microcontrollers and microprocessors, ensuring system performance and hardware stability.

Core Responsibilities

• Firmware Architecture: Formulate hardware-software interface boundaries, define specifications, and outline overall code structures.
• Code Development: Write and debug low-level embedded software using C and C++ programming languages.
• Board Bring-up: Program drivers, bootloaders, and hardware abstraction layers for new silicon or proprietary application boards.
• Peripheral Management: Configure timers, General Purpose Input/Outputs (GPIOs), Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADCs), Digital-to-Analog Converters (DACs) etc.
• Protocol Implementation: Integrate standard communication stacks such as SPI, I2C, UART, BLE, Zigbee, WiFi.
• System Diagnostics: Target, isolate, and resolve deep hardware-software interaction faults using logic analyzers and JTAG debuggers.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner directly with Hardware, SoC Design, Verification, and Validation teams to review schematics and layouts.

Required Technical Skills

• Languages: Advanced proficiency in embedded C/C++, and exposure to assembly or scripting languages like Python.
• Architectures: Hands-on experience working with ARM Cortex-M/A, RISC-V, DSPs, or MPU/MCU spaces.
• Operating Systems: Embedded Linux environments or RTOS, including FreeRTOS, Zephyr etc.
• Hardware Tools: Proficient use of oscilloscopes, protocol analyzers, multi-meters, and digital development kits.
• Software Tools: Strong grasp of version control systems like Git, build automation tools, and continuous integration models.

Preferred Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering.
• Domain Expertise: Industry-specific knowledge based on the sector, such as Home Automation, Building Automation, Access and Security systems, Electric Vehicles and chargers, IoT devices etc.