Senior Firmware Engineer (Autonomous Systems)

Job Description – Senior Firmware

Engineer (Autonomous Systems)

• We are seeking a highly skilled Senior
• Firmware Engineer with strong expertise in embedded systems, real-time
• firmware development, and hardware-software integration for intelligent and
• autonomous platforms.
• The ideal candidate will have hands-on
• experience developing firmware for high-performance embedded systems used in
• UAV, UGV, and USV environments. This role requires strong ownership, mentoring
• capability, and the ability to work across multidisciplinary engineering teams.

Role Overview

• As a Senior Firmware Engineer, you will
• design, develop, test, and optimize embedded firmware for intelligent
• autonomous and connected systems. You will collaborate closely with hardware,
• software, controls, AI, and systems engineering teams to build reliable,
• real-time, and safety-focused embedded platforms.

Key Responsibilities

Embedded Firmware Development

• Design and develop embedded firmware using C/C++
• Develop low-level drivers, middleware, and hardware abstraction
• layers
• Work on bare-metal and RTOS-based embedded systems
• Optimize firmware for performance, reliability, and
• maintainability

Real-Time Systems

• Develop firmware for real-time and latency-sensitive
• applications
• Implement interrupt-driven and multi-threaded embedded systems
• Support deterministic control and timing-critical applications

Motor Control Firmware

Develop and optimize motor controller firmware for embedded

platforms

Work with

BLDC/PMSM motor control

PWM generation

Field-Oriented Control (FOC)

Encoder and sensor feedback systems

Support diagnostics, tuning, and control optimization

Embedded Platforms & Chipsets

Work with embedded MCU platforms such as

STMicroelectronics (STM32)

Texas Instruments (TI)

NXP or similar platforms

Sensor & Peripheral Integration

Integrate and support sensors such as

IMU

GPS/GNSS

LiDAR

Radar

Cameras

• Ultrasonic sensors
• Develop firmware for sensor interfacing and real-time data
• acquisition

Communication & Telemetry

Develop firmware supporting communication protocols including

UART

SPI

I2C

CAN/CAN-FD

Ethernet

Support telemetry and inter-system communication frameworks

Hardware-Software Integration

• Work closely with hardware engineering teams during board
• bring-up and system integration
• Support debugging and validation using oscilloscopes, logic
• analyzers, and embedded debugging tools
• Participate in system-level integration and troubleshooting

Testing & Validation

Develop and support

• Software-in-the-Loop (SIL) testing
• Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) testing
• Contribute to automated firmware validation and regression
• testing

Firmware Quality & Reliability

• Develop firmware aligned with MISRA C standards and embedded
• software best practices
• Implement fault handling, watchdog mechanisms, and system
• diagnostics
• Support secure, maintainable, and production-grade firmware
• development

CI/CD & Automation

• Support CI/CD workflows for embedded software development
• Contribute to automated build, testing, and deployment
• pipelines
• Maintain version control and release engineering processes

AI & Edge Intelligence

Exposure to AI-assisted development tools is preferred

Experience with TinyML or edge AI frameworks is an advantage

Mentorship & Collaboration

• Mentor junior engineers and support technical knowledge sharing
• Collaborate with software, firmware, hardware, controls, and
• systems engineering teams

Required Skills & Experience

Core Embedded Skills

• Strong experience in embedded firmware development using C/C++
• Experience with RTOS and real-time embedded systems
• Strong debugging and troubleshooting capabilities

Embedded Platforms

• Hands-on experience with STM32, TI, or similar embedded
• platforms
• Experience with board bring-up and low-level driver development.

Motor Control Systems

• Mandatory experience in motor controller firmware development
• Experience with real-time control systems and embedded control
• algorithms

Autonomous Systems Experience

Mandatory experience or strong domain

exposure in autonomous and intelligent systems such as:

UAV (Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles)

UGV (Uncrewed Ground Vehicles)

USV (Uncrewed Surface Vehicles)

Communication & Integration

Experience with embedded communication protocols and telemetry

systems

Experience integrating sensors and hardware peripherals

Firmware Quality & Testing

Experience with MISRA C standards

Experience with SIL and HIL testing methodologies

DevOps & Tooling

Experience with CI/CD workflows in embedded environments

Familiarity with Git and automated testing frameworks

AI & TinyML

Exposure to TinyML or edge AI solutions

Familiarity with AI-assisted engineering tools is preferred

Leadership & Collaboration

Mandatory experience mentoring junior engineers

Strong communication and problem-solving skills

Preferred Candidate Profile

• Strong systems-thinking and debugging mindset
• Comfortable working across firmware, hardware, and system
• integration domains
• Passion for autonomous systems and intelligent platforms
• Ability to work in fast-paced engineering environments with
• evolving requirements
• Self-driven with strong technical ownership

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in

Electronics Engineering

Embedded Systems

Computer Engineering

Robotics

Mechatronic

Related Engineering disciplines

Keywords

• Senior Firmware Engineer, Embedded Systems,
• RTOS, STM32, Texas Instruments, Motor Control Firmware, BLDC, PMSM, FOC, MISRA
• C, SIL, HIL, Embedded C, UAV, UGV, USV, Robotics, Embedded Linux, CAN Bus,
• MAVLink, Sensor Integration, TinyML, Edge AI, Autonomous Systems,
• Hardware-Software Integration