Embedded Systems Engineer | Firmware Engineer

Role Overview

Firmware Development

• Design firmware for microcontrollers, processors, and intelligent electronic devices and translate requirements into technical designs.
• Develop low-level firmware, hardware abstraction layers, peripheral drivers, and embedded applications using C, C++, and suitable languages.
• Implement communication interfaces including I2C, SPI, UART, CAN, USB, Ethernet, and applicable wireless protocols.
• Develop real-time applications using RTOS environments and configure timers, interrupts, DMA, GPIO, ADC, PWM, and other peripherals.

Integration, Debugging, and Optimization

• Integrate firmware with hardware and work with hardware engineers to troubleshoot integration issues.
• Debug and isolate faults using JTAG, SWD, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and other debugging tools.
• Analyze and optimize memory use, processing requirements, power consumption, response times, reliability, and resource utilization.
• Investigate field issues, firmware defects, system failures, and intermittent hardware-software problems and implement corrective actions.

Testing and Product Support

• Develop and execute unit, integration, functional, system-level, automated, and validation tests for embedded software.
• Create automated test scripts and validation procedures and support prototypes, engineering builds, verification, and production testing.
• Support firmware deployment, product updates, bootloader processes, and over-the-air updates where applicable.
• Manage firmware versions, source code, configurations, and release branches, participate in code reviews, and maintain technical documentation.
• Collaborate with QA, manufacturing, product management, hardware, software, and engineering teams.

Required Qualifications

• Diploma or bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, electronics engineering, computer engineering, computer science, or a related field.
• Professional experience in embedded systems, firmware engineering, embedded software, or electronic product development.
• Strong C and C++ programming experience and understanding of microcontroller architecture, memory, interrupts, timers, peripherals, and real-time processing.
• Experience with ARM Cortex-M, ARM Cortex-A, or other embedded processor architectures.
• Strong knowledge of embedded communication protocols, including SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, USB, or Ethernet.
• Experience with development environments, compilers, debuggers, flashing tools, and Git or another version-control system.
• Ability to interpret electronic schematics, datasheets, reference designs, and technical specifications.
• Experience with electronic test equipment and strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis capabilities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with device drivers, hardware abstraction layers, and RTOS platforms such as FreeRTOS, Zephyr, or ThreadX is preferred.
• Knowledge of embedded Linux, bootloaders, device trees, Linux device drivers, low-power design, firmware security, encryption, or embedded cybersecurity is advantageous.
• Experience in IoT, consumer electronics, automotive, industrial automation, robotics, medical devices, or telecommunications is advantageous.

What the Employer Offers

• Competitive salary and comprehensive employee benefits.
• Opportunities to work on advanced embedded products, intelligent electronic systems, and complete product development lifecycles.
• Access to modern development boards, test equipment, software tools, and engineering platforms.
• Professional training, technical certification support, continuous development, and potential progression into senior, architect, technical lead, or engineering manager roles.