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Tata Consultancy

Firmware & Embedded Systems Architect

Tata Consultancy

📍 Greater Hyderabad Area, India 🇮🇳

full-time
senior
Posted —

Key Skills

RTOSbootloadersdeviceC++Linux

Industry

AutomotiveSemiconductor

Job Description

Role: Firmware & Embedded Systems Architect / Technical Leader

Required Technical Skill Set :15–25 years of experience in Embedded Systems and Firmware engineering

Desired Experience Range : 18+ years

Location of Requirement : Hyderabad/ Bangalore


Must Have:

  • Lead architecture, design, and roadmap development for complex firmware and embedded systems across MCU/MPU, RTOS, and edge‑compute platforms.
  • Drive system‑level decisions involving bootloaders, drivers, communication stacks, power optimization, and hardware–software co‑design.
  • Provide deep technical mentorship to engineering teams, ensuring high‑quality code, robust design practices, and adherence to industry standards (MISRA, ISO/IEC).
  • Collaborate with hardware, product, and systems engineering groups to translate requirements into scalable, high‑performance embedded solutions.
  • Guide debugging, validation, bring‑up, and optimization of firmware on real hardware using JTAG, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and automated test frameworks.
  • Influence technology strategy by evaluating emerging architectures, connectivity technologies, edge‑AI accelerators, and platform modernization opportunities
  • Strong expertise in RTOS, BSPs, bootloaders, device drivers, and middleware.
  • Experience across SoCs, MCUs, DSPs from leading silicon vendors.
  • Strong background in C/C++, low-level system programming, and debugging.
  • Exposure to embedded Linux, Yocto, Zephyr, FreeRTOS.
  • Experience in safety-critical or high-reliability systems.
  • Strong expertise in RTOS, BSPs, bootloaders, device drivers, and middleware.
  • Experience across SoCs, MCUs, DSPs from leading silicon vendors.
  • Strong background in C/C++, low-level system programming, and debugging.
  • Exposure to embedded Linux, Yocto, Zephyr, FreeRTOS.
  • Experience in safety-critical or high-reliability systems.

Good to Have:

  • Experience in Networking, Industrial, Automotive or Semiconductor equipment.
  • Exposure to security in embedded systems


Role descriptions / Expectations from the Role

Define embedded reference platforms and reusable frameworks.

Lead firmware architecture for next-gen products.

Mentor senior engineers and architects.

Drive embedded innovation and modernization initiatives.