Lead Firmware Design Engineer
📌Hannover-Braunschweig-Göttingen-Wolfsburg Region, Germany 🇩🇪
⏱︎ full-time
🧙♂️ senior
hybrid
How You Will Contribute
As a firmware design engineer, you will be responsible for designing and implementing the low-level software required to control the DSP assisted coherent optical modem. That includes developing all the tools and interfaces required to support the integration, test, and verification of the product. As part of a wider development team, you will interact and collaborate with many designers from different teams to provide the optimum solutions that improve the product performance and quality. The firmware designer is exposed to a wide range of cutting-edge electronic, optical and RF technologies in a world-class R&D lab environment.
- You will define, implement and support SoC FW architectures with complex analog/digital IP blocks from early concept phase to mass production.
- You will develop, enhance and debug new and existing real-time firmware in C
- You will support hands-on hardware bringup, system debugging, functional validation and code optimization in a sophisticated electro-/optical RF laboratory.
- You will collaborate with chip-, module- and system developers to find optimal solutions
- You will provide calibration, test and debug tools improving the product quality.
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You will implement continuous code improvements, best practices and innovative solutions within the team, and lager organization.
- 5+ years of industry experience is a plus, we’re open to review if less than that
- Master degree or PhD in electrical engineering, computer science or related subject
- Experience with real-time software development on bare-metal or embedded operating system.
- Experience in C programming, Python and Matlab for the purposes of product code development, simulation, test automation, and data analysis.
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Worked with various hardware interfaces like JTAG, SPI, I2C, UART, DDR, PCIe …
- Knowledge of DSP algorithms and optical fibre communication systems, higher order modulation formats is a plus
- Hardware exposure and RF laboratory environment experience.
- Strong analytical and debugging skills.
- Self-motivated, ability to work multidisciplinaryly multi-site team
- Own assignments with full accountability, remain engaged, be proactive and positive while solving very challenging problems.
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Excellent language skills in English and basic skills in German.
At Ciena, we are committed to building and fostering an environment in which our employees feel respected, valued, and heard. Ciena values the diversity of its workforce and respects its employees as individuals. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination.
Ciena is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.
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Senior Embedded Software Engineer
@ Embedd 
What we're looking for
At embedd.it, we power hardware-software integration in embedded devices. We turn fragmented semiconductor chip data into configurable digital twins, then deterministically generate code, tests, and documentation – making integration faster, cheaper, and resilient to supply chain shocks.
We’re looking for a true legend – someone with abstract thinking and deep expertise in low-level software development. You’ll build vendor-agnostic tooling for MCU and peripheral integration to solve hardware-software integration once and for all. We work at the intersection of embedded systems, code generation, compilers, and machine learning. It’s your chance to help redefine how low-level development is done.
Responsibilities
- Drive the architecture of the driver structures and system layout
- Define scalable patterns for cross-architectural integration across bare-metal, Zephyr, Linux, and other environments
- Deconstruct complex SoC device trees and translate hardware descriptions into structured internal models for automated reasoning
- Partner with the ML team to shape data and annotation models for AI-driven data-extraction tooling
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in embedded systems development, including bare-metal and RTOS-based systems
- Proficiency in C/C++
- Familiarity with firmware configuration, SoC bring-up, and system-level debugging
- Hands-on experience with code generation tools, or low-level compiler/decompiler/emulator technologies
- Strong background in embedded toolchains: compilers, linkers, debuggers, and build systems
- Python or scripting for automation and tooling is a plus
- Experience with functional-safety standards is a plus
Why embedd.it?
- Dynamic, venture-backed team of engineers challenging the status quo 🚀
- Work at the intersection of embedded systems, code generators, compilers, and ML 🤖
- Unusual challenges requiring out-of-the-box abstract thinking 🧠
- Competitive compensation: cash + equity 💰
- Remote work possible 🌍
About Us
embedd.it is a UK-based startup reinventing embedded development. Our platform transforms unstructured semiconductor data into structured digital twins, enabling automatic generation of drivers, tests, and documentation. We're building a single, traceable source of truth to make integration fast, vendor-agnostic, and future-proof.
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