Role : Application Firmware Engineer

About the Company

Manastu Space is a Space Safety and Logistics company focused on making space safe, sustainable, and accessible. We develop technologies to address critical challenges such as space debris mitigation and green propulsion, enabling safer satellite operations, and long-term sustainability of the space ecosystem.

Our work sits at the intersection of advanced engineering, applied research, and mission-critical systems, requiring deep technical capability and long-term thinking.

Website: https://www.manastuspace.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/manastu-space/

Email: [email protected]

About the Role

Application Firmware Engineer Role Summary We are seeking a skilled Application Firmware Engineer with strong hands-on experience in RTOS-based, 32-bit microcontroller systems. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in real-time system design, mission/state machine logic, telemetry and command handling, and firmware verification — building on top of the driver interfaces the Platform Firmware Engineer exposes.

Experience in aerospace, defence, avionics, or other mission-critical electronics domains will be highly valued.

Responsibilities

- Design and implement Super loop and RTOS-based application firmware: task scheduling, inter-task communication, timers, interrupts, mutexes, queues, and memory management.
- Develop application-level firmware, mission logic, and state-machine behavior on top of the driver layer.
- Implement real-time data acquisition pipelines: sensor read, engineering-unit conversion, calibration, and filtering.
- Implement telemetry packetization, CRC framing, and command decode/validate/execute/reply flows.
- Implement fault detection and fault management logic, including protected-state transitions and event logging.
- Perform firmware integration and system-level debugging at the application/mission-logic level.
- Review schematics and hardware designs from a mission-logic and data-flow perspective.




- Support design verification activities from an application-behavior perspective.
- Prepare firmware design documents, test procedures, debug reports, and release notes.
- Participate in unit testing, integration testing, and firmware release management and version control.
- Collaborate with the low-level Firmware Engineer, hardware, FPGA teams.

Qualifications

- Role Overview
- Department Engineering / Embedded Systems / Avionics & Defence Electronics
- Employment Type Full-time
- Experience 6 - 15 Years of relevant embedded firmware experience
- Qualification B.E. / B.Tech / M.E. / M.Tech — Electronics, Electrical, Embedded Systems, Instrumentation, Computer Science or related discipline
- Domain Preference Aerospace, Defence, Avionics, Space, or Mission-Critical Systems

Required Skills

- Core programming - strong proficiency in Embedded C , Python or VB.NET knowledge is an advantage.
- Solid understanding of RTOS-based firmware development, with working knowledge of the underlying MCU architecture (memory map, interrupts, timers) the application runs on.
- Experience designing application logic that consumes a driver interface rather than accessing registers directly.
- Supported MCU Platforms
- Application-level familiarity with ARM Cortex-M series (STM32, NXP, Microchip SAM / PIC32)
- Renesas, Infineon, or other equivalent 32-bit MCU platforms, as consumed through the platform team's BSP
- RTOS Concepts
- Task/thread creation, priorities, and scheduling
- Semaphores, mutexes, queues, and mailboxes
- Software/hardware timers and ISR-to-task communication
- Stack and heap management; memory safety




- Communication Protocols
- Application-level framing and command/telemetry design over UART, SPI, I²C, CAN / CAN-FD
- RS-232, RS-485, Ethernet, USB — protocol-level packet design and validation
- Debugging & Tooling
- JTAG, SWD, breakpoints, watchpoints, memory views, and trace tools for application-level debugging.
- Working knowledge of IDEs/toolchains: STM32CubeIDE, MPLAB X, Code ,GCC, Eclipse.
- Source control: Git.
- Ability to read schematics and datasheets to understand the data available from the driver layer.

Preferred Skills

- Prior experience in mission-critical embedded systems.
- Familiarity with MISRA C, MIL-STD requirements, or RTCA qualification processes.
- Experience with firmware upgrade mechanisms, CRC verification, watchdog strategy, and fail-safe design at the application/state-machine level.
- Knowledge of high-reliability and fault-tolerant embedded design practices.
- Real-time data acquisition, control systems, sensor interfacing, or actuator control experience.
- Python, VB, or scripting skills for test automation and utility development.
- Exposure to static analysis tools, unit testing frameworks, and CI for embedded firmware.
- Tools & Technologies
- Programming: Embedded C (primary), C (preferred), Python scripting
- RTOS: FreeRTOS. JD — Application Firmware Engineer
- Debug Tools: JTAG, SWD, ST-Link.
- Lab Instruments: DSO, Logic Analyzer, Protocol Analyzer, Multimeter, Function Generator.
- Protocols: UART, SPI, I²C, CAN / CAN-FD, Ethernet, USB, RS-232, RS-485.
- Version Control: Git.
- Documentation: Design documents, test procedures, traceability docs, technical reports
- Key Competencies
- Embedded System Design
- Strong Firmware Fundamentals
- Hardware-Software Integration
- Hands-on Debugging & Problem-Solving
- Documentation & Process Discipline
- Cross-functional Collaboration
- Quality, Reliability & Safety Focus
- Documentation of source Code.

📌 Application Firmware Engineer (Navi Mumbai)
🏢 Manastu Space
📍 Navi Mumbai