Program Manager

Quest Global; Chennai; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering services company is looking for an experienced Program Manager in Chennai, India. This role involves overseeing customer development, managing technical projects, and ensuring quality deliverables. Candidates should have expertise in firmware development, programming skills in Embedded C and C++, and a solid understanding of embedded systems architecture. The position requires strong analytical and problem-solving abilities to mentor the team and drive project success on time with high quality.

Qualifications

• Expertise in firmware development lifecycle including design, implementation, validation, and release.
• Excellent understanding of embedded systems and software architecture.
• Proficient in programming languages such as Embedded C and C++.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for customer development and leading technical aspects of projects.
• Prepare estimates and understand project requirements.
• Mentor the team and drive continuous improvement.

Skills

Firmware development lifecycle expertise

Software architecture and design

Embedded C and C++

Problem-solving and analytical skills

Performance tuning and memory optimization

Bare-metal programming

Familiarity with debugging tools

Tools

SVN

Git

Jira

Job description

Responsibilities

The Program Manager is responsible for customer development, leading technical aspects of opportunities, proposals and projects. The role ensures the deliverable/quality review process and metrics perform, and oversees program management and financial/business health of the program.

• Understand the requirements and prepare estimates
• Perform technical discussions with internal and customer counterparts
• Break down high level tasks into smaller, executable steps for the team
• Lead root cause analysis for defects and collaborate with customer / internal stakeholders to suggest fixes or workarounds
• Provide advanced debugging strategies to the team
• Mentor the team and drive continuous improvement in validation workflows to reduce cycle time and increase coverage
• Demonstrate success in delivering results on time with quality
• Predict project risks and develop mitigation plans
• Perform technical reviews of work items before delivering to stakeholder/customer

Required Skills and Experience

• Expertise in firmware development lifecycle; design, implementation, validation, release
• Excellent software architecture and design of embedded systems
• Programming languages: Embedded C, C++
• Excellent problem‑solving and analytical skills
• Leads board bring‑up of complex systems including multi‑core SoCs
• Proficient in performance tuning, memory optimization, and code profiling
• Solid understanding of bare‑metal programming and enabling HW IPs, interrupts, etc.
• Expertise in development and maintenance of firmware, device driver/bare‑metal driver
• Experience in CSI, DSI, UCIe, NPU, I2C, UART, SPI, USB, ADC, DAC, DMA, etc.
• Familiarity with schematic diagram, H/W user manuals, datasheets, basic HW circuits and debugging tools such as DSO, multimeter, etc.

Essential Skills

• Experience with continuous integration tools like SVN, Git, Jira, etc.
• Knowledge of bare‑metal and RTOS‑based designs
• Familiarity with code optimization techniques and coding standards such as MISRA C

Good To Have Skills

• Experience with IoT and modern connectivity solutions
• Knowledge of cloud platforms & services (e.g., AWS, Azure) and AI
• Certification in embedded systems or related fields
• Cross‑industry experience in embedded systems architecture