Senior Firmware Engineer

Agiliad LLC; Pune District; On-site; INR 2,000,000 - 3,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Agiliad LLC in Pune, Maharashtra, seeks a Senior Embedded Firmware Engineer to lead architecture, design, and validation of medical device firmware. You will collaborate with hardware and software teams across the product lifecycle, develop low-level drivers and RTOS-based firmware, and ensure regulatory compliance.

The role requires 7+ years of hands-on embedded firmware experience in C/C++, strong debugging skills, and a track record in safety-critical, battery-powered systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering or equivalent.
• 7+ years of embedded firmware in C/C++ for microcontrollers.
• Experience leading embedded firmware development, architecture reviews, and mentoring.
• Experience with Arm Cortex-M platforms.
• Experience developing low-level peripheral drivers (SPI, UART, DMA, ADC/DAC, timers).
• Strong understanding of power management and sensor interfacing.
• Excellent hardware/firmware debugging with oscilloscopes and JTAG/SWD.
• Experience in regulated design environments (QMS/IEC62304).
• Experience with configuration management and issue tracking.
• RTOS experience (FreeRTOS, Micrium, ThreadX) and CI/CD workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead firmware architecture, design, development, and testing for embedded medical device systems.
• Collaborate with hardware and software engineers to define firmware requirements and system architecture.
• Participate throughout the product lifecycle from concept to validation and clinical support.
• Support hardware bring-up and debugging of new designs.
• Lead root cause investigations across development, manufacturing, and field issues.
• Develop tools and methodologies to improve engineering efficiency and quality.
• Create and maintain firmware documentation, reports, and design records.
• Provide technical leadership through design/code reviews and mentoring.
• Support verification, validation, and regulatory compliance activities.
• Define verification strategies and assist test planning.
• Contribute to cybersecurity, risk management, and design control activities.
• Develop automated unit/integration/hardware-in-the-loop tests.

Skills

Firmware development

RTOS

C/C++

Debugging

Mentoring

System architecture

Code reviews

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Git

Ceedling

Unity

CMock

GoogleTest

JTAG/SWD

Gecko SDK

CI/CD

Docker

Python

Job description

Responsibilities

• Lead firmware architecture, design, development, and testing for embedded medical device systems.
• Collaborate with hardware and software engineers to define firmware requirements and system architecture.
• Participate throughout the product lifecycle, including concept development, requirements, design, verification, validation, and clinical support.
• Support hardware bring-up and assist in debugging new electronic designs.
• Troubleshoot and lead root cause investigations of development, manufacturing, and field issues.
• Develop tools and methodologies to improve engineering efficiency and product quality.
• Create and maintain firmware documentation, technical reports, and design records.
• Provide technical leadership through design reviews, code reviews, mentoring, and the establishment of firmware development best practices.
• Support verification, validation, and regulatory compliance activities.
• Evaluate technical risks and trade-offs involving safety, security, reliability, power consumption, and usability.
• Define firmware verification strategies and support test planning activities.
• Contribute to cybersecurity, risk management, and design control activities throughout the product development lifecycle.
• Develop and maintain automated unit, integration, and hardware-in-the-loop test solutions to support product verification activities.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent engineering discipline (Master's degree preferred).
• 7+ years of progressive experience developing embedded firmware in C and/or C++ for microcontroller-based systems.
• Demonstrated experience providing technical leadership in embedded firmware development, including architecture, design reviews, and mentoring.
• Experience developing firmware for Arm Cortex-M or similar embedded processor platforms.
• Experience developing low-level peripheral drivers (SPI, UART, DMA, ADC/DAC, timers).
• Strong understanding of electrical circuits, power management, and sensor interfacing.
• Excellent hardware/firmware debugging skills, including analog and digital electronics, using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and JTAG/SWD debuggers.
• Experience developing products within regulated design control or quality management system (QMS) environments.
• Experience with configuration management, issue tracking, and problem resolution processes.
• Excellent technical documentation and written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience with real-time operating systems (RTOS), such as Micrium, FreeRTOS, ThreadX, or equivalent.
• Experience developing firmware for battery-powered or ultra-low-power embedded systems.
• Experience reading schematics, datasheets, and hardware design documentation.
• Experience with collaborative software development workflows using Git-based version control systems.
• Experience developing automated unit, integration, or verification tests for embedded software.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing implantable medical devices, neurostimulation systems, or Class II/III medical devices.
• Experience developing medical devices within FDA-regulated environments, including familiarity with IEC 62304, ISO 14971, ISO 14708-3, IEC 60601, and safety-critical software development practices.
• Experience with low-power wireless power transfer, coil systems, or RF technologies.
• Experience with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) firmware development, including pairing, bonding, GATT services, and secure communications.
• Experience with automated unit testing frameworks such as Ceedling, Unity, CMock, GoogleTest, or equivalent.
• Experience implementing cybersecurity controls, secure communications, cryptographic services, secure boot, or secure firmware update mechanisms in embedded systems.
• Experience with MISRA C, static analysis tools, and coding standards for embedded systems.
• Experience with Silicon Labs EFM32/EFR32 platforms, Gecko SDK, Micrium OS, or similar embedded ecosystems.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Docker-based build systems, and test automation using Python.
• Experience with cybersecurity risk management, software bill of materials (SBOM) management, and vulnerability assessment.