Senior Embedded Software Developer - Firmware
📌Chennai, India 🇮🇳
⏱︎ full-time
🧙♂️ senior
We are looking for a highly experienced Senior Embedded Software Developer to lead the development and maintenance of embedded systems across our product lines.
The ideal candidate is deeply skilled in C/C++ programming, has a strong understanding of hardware-software interaction, and can contribute to architecture, development, testing, and deployment in a collaborative engineering environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Collaborate with clients, designers, and engineering teams to gather and define embedded system requirements.
- Architect software solutions based on hardware specifications and project goals.
- Develop embedded software, firmware, system protocols, and low-level drivers using C/C++.
- Integrate, test, and validate embedded systems for proper functionality and performance.
- Debug and resolve hardware-software interface issues, malfunctions, and inefficiencies.
- Propose and implement effective fixes, improvements, and feature upgrades.
- Ensure alignment with electrical, mechanical, and product design teams throughout development.
- Track progress, manage deliverables, and escalate delays or blockers to project leads.
- Maintain thorough technical documentation, including system architecture, diagnostic procedures, and development logs.
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Provide ongoing support and maintenance for deployed embedded systems.
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
- 10+ years of hands-on embedded software development experience.
- Expert-level proficiency in C and C++ programming.
- Deep understanding of microcontroller architectures (e.g., ARM, MIPS).
- Experience with communication protocols such as UART, SPI, I2C, and USB.
- Proficiency with RTOS or embedded Linux environments.
- Solid debugging skills using tools like oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and JTAG.
- Excellent diagnostic, analytical, and problem-solving abilities.
- Strong project planning, documentation, and time management skills.
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Enthusiastic about keeping up with emerging embedded technologies and industry trends.
- Familiarity with Agile/Scrum development workflows.
- Knowledge of scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash).
- Exposure to Secure Boot, OTA updates, or embedded security best practices.
- Experience working with CI/CD pipelines for embedded software.
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Knowledge of hardware schematic reviews or PCB-level debugging
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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