Designation:
Firmware Lead / Firmware Manager – SoC Development

Type of Position:
Regular, Exempt

Experience:
8–15 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

• Wi‐Fi (5/6 preferred)

• RF calibration

• Radio init

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