Firmware Lead / Firmware Manager SoC Development

HappieHire; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

HappieHire seeks a Firmware Lead/Manager to own architecture, development, integration and delivery of firmware for complex mixed-signal and wireless SoCs from silicon to production.

The role requires hands-on experience with ARM subsystems, boot firmware, device drivers, wireless firmware, silicon bring-up, and production firmware, working across cross-functional teams in Bangalore.

Qualifications

• Hands-on firmware leadership experience across complex SoCs.
• Experience with ARM subsystems and boot firmware.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional firmware projects.

Responsibilities

• Define firmware architecture for ARM-based SoCs.
• Develop scalable firmware frameworks for multiple families.
• Partition functionality across hardware, firmware and software.
• Review hardware architecture to influence features.
• Establish coding standards and firmware design principles.
• Boot ROM integration and secure boot implementation.
• Develop drivers, BSP, and RTOS integration.
• Wireless firmware development: BLE, WiFi, RF tests.
• Mixed-signal firmware and sensor interfaces.
• BSP, silicon bring-up and validation activities.
• Security firmware: secure boot and OTA.

Skills

Firmware leadership

SoC architecture

ARM subsystems

Device drivers

Tools

ARM CMSIS

ARM Trusted Firmware

U-Boot

TF-A

OP-TEE

Linux BSP

Zephyr

FreeRTOS

Yocto

Hardware debugging

Job description

Designation

Firmware Lead / Firmware Manager SoC Development

Type of Position

Regular, Exempt

Experience

815 Years

Reports To

CEO/VP Engineering

Location

Bangalore, India

Job Description

The Firmware Lead/Manager will own the architecture, development, integration, and delivery of firmware required to bring complex mixed-signal and wireless SoCs from silicon to production. The role includes close collaboration with Architecture, RTL Design, Analog/Mixed-Signal, Verification, Physical Design, DFT, Software, Applications Engineering, and Product Engineering teams.

The successful candidate should have hands-on experience with ARM subsystems, boot firmware, BSP development, device drivers, wireless firmware, silicon bring-up, and production firmware.

Key Responsibilities

SoC Firmware Architecture

• Define the firmware architecture for ARM-based SoCs.
• Develop scalable firmware frameworks supporting multiple product families.
• Partition functionality between hardware, firmware, and software.
• Review hardware architecture and influence SoC feature definitions.
• Establish coding standards, architecture guidelines, and firmware design principles.

ARM Subsystem Development

• Boot ROM integration
• Secure boot implementation
• Bootloader development
• Exception handling
• Interrupt controller configuration
• MMU/MPU configuration
• Cache management
• Power management
• Clock initialization
• Memory initialization (SRAM, DDR, Flash)
• Low-power modes
• TrustZone (preferred)
• Knowledge of ARM CMSIS, ARM Trusted Firmware, U-Boot, TF-A, OP-TEE (preferred)

Firmware Development

• Power Management
• Clock Management
• Reset Controller
• GPIO Timers
• Watchdog
• UART
• SPI
• I2C
• I3C (preferred)
• CAN (preferred)
• USB
• Ethernet
• DMA
• ADC
• DAC
• PWM
• RTC
• Sensor Interfaces
• Interrupt Controllers
• Memory Controllers

Wireless Firmware

• BLE 5.x
• WiFi (5/6 preferred)
• RF calibration
• Radio initialization
• Wireless coexistence
• RF test modes
• PHY/MAC interaction
• Connection management
• OTA updates
• Low-power wireless operation
• Bluetooth SIG integration
• WiFi driver integration
• Protocol debugging
• RF production testing

Mixed-Signal Firmware

• High-resolution ADCs
• Sigma-Delta ADCs
• AFE
• Sensor calibration
• Offset/Gain correction
• Temperature compensation
• Diagnostics
• Calibration algorithms
• Self-test
• Factory calibration
• Production trimming

ISP & Vision

• Camera sensors
• MIPI CSI ISP initialization
• Camera drivers
• Image pipeline
• Sensor tuning
• Vision AI interfaces

BSP Development

• Board Support Packages
• Device drivers
• Startup code
• RTOS integration
• Linux BSP (preferred)
• Peripheral abstraction
• Middleware
• FreeRTOS
• Zephyr
• ThreadX
• Embedded Linux
• Yocto (preferred)

Silicon Bring-Up

• FPGA prototyping
• Emulation
• First silicon bring-up
• Engineering validation
• Characterization
• Production qualification
• Board bring-up
• JTAG
• Boundary scan
• Firmware diagnostics
• Register validation
• Hardware debugging

Firmware Validation

• Functional
• Integration
• Regression
• Production
• Manufacturing diagnostics
• Stress
• Benchmarking
• Power measurements

Security Firmware

• Secure Boot
• Secure Firmware Update
• Crypto acceleration
• Hardware Root of Trust
• Key management
• Secure storage
• Authentication
• Anti-rollback
• Secure debug

AI Accelerator

• NPU
• DSP
• AI runtime
• AI scheduler
• Memory manager
• Tensor loading
• Inference execution
• Power optimization

Firmware Lifecycle

• Requirements
• Architecture
• Design
• Coding
• Unit testing
• Code review
• Integration
• Verification
• Hardware