Role Title: Embedded Application SME

Experience Range: 8–15 years

Education: B.Tech/M.Tech in ECE/CS/EE or related field

Role Summary:
An Embedded Application SME is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining application-level software that runs on embedded systems. They build user-facing or service-level functionality on top of system software, ensuring efficient performance, reliability, and interaction with underlying hardware and middleware.

Key Responsibilities:
• Define architecture and technical roadmap
• Lead design, development, and integration
• Performance tuning and optimization
• Ensure quality, reliability, and scalability
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (HW/SW/Product)
• Mentor engineering teams and review designs
• Engage with customers and define solutions
• Responsible for System Integration and feature implementation and validation

Detailed Skills & Competencies:
• Solid system design and architecture expertise
• Proficiency in C++/Python OOPs concept is mandatory and Data structures
• Debugging, profiling,



and root cause
• Experience using Linux commands, process handling, File handling, system programming and RTOS concepts.
• Experience in API development i.e RESTful APIs, gRPC, API design principles, Experience in Serialize/deserialize data i.e JSON, Protobuf, XML formats.
• Experience in memory management, Bootloaders, interrupt handlers.
• Platform software debugging using GDB/JTAG debugger
• Knowledge on Device driver development (GPIO, I2C, SPI, UART, PCIe, etc) and networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS,ARP,etc)
• Participate in code reviews, contributing to and upholding best Programming practices
• Knowledge on Harware interaction and decoding data transfer between user and kernel space for application and system level control and data messages

Tools & Technologies:
Linux, GDB, Dmesg, tcpdump,profiling tools - perf, journalctl, f/s/l- trace,valgrind, Git, SVN, GNU C/C++ build tool chain, Protocol analyzers,

📌 : Embedded Application SME (Hyderabad)
🏢 Tata Consultancy Services
📍 Hyderabad