Firmware Architect — Embedded Linux / C++ / Printer Platforms

Key Responsibilities

- Firmware Architecture & Technical Leadership

- Provide hands-on technical leadership for firmware, UI, and extensibility stacks, translating high-level business and product requirements into scalable, robust, and maintainable architectural solutions.

- Define and evolve system and component-level architecture, design patterns, interfaces, APIs, dependencies, and integration strategies across the embedded software ecosystem.

- Lead architecture and design decisions across Embedded C++, Linux, UI (Qt/QML), firmware services, and extensibility frameworks.

- Ensure architectural decisions address performance, scalability, reliability, security, maintainability, backward compatibility, and long-term platform evolution.

- Identify architectural risks early and drive mitigation strategies across multiple engineering teams and components.

- Establish technical standards and engineering best practices that improve code quality, development velocity, system stability, and delivery predictability.

- Deep Hands-On Engineering

- Remain deeply hands-on in Embedded C++ and Linux, contributing directly to critical design, coding, debugging, and performance optimization activities.

- Troubleshoot complex issues across the full embedded software stack, including application, middleware, firmware services, drivers/interfaces, UI, system services, and hardware/software interactions.

- Lead complex debugging activities involving multi-threading, concurrency, memory management, IPC, resource utilization, boot/runtime behavior, performance bottlenecks, and system stability.

- Support firmware flashing, deployment, integration, and validation across target hardware platforms.

- Drive performance engineering and optimization across CPU, memory, startup time,



responsiveness, throughput, resource utilization, and overall system efficiency.

- Conduct deep technical investigations and provide actionable solutions for production and field issues.

- UI, Firmware & Extensibility

- Provide architectural and technical leadership across the UI (Qt/QML), Firmware, and Extensibility stacks.

- Translate one-line business/product requirements into detailed technical designs, component interactions, APIs, implementation plans, and test strategies.

- Ensure clean integration between UI, firmware services, platform components, and extensibility capabilities.

- Define reusable frameworks and interfaces that enable faster feature development while maintaining platform consistency and reliability.

- Drive architectural simplification and modernization where legacy implementations create technical debt or constrain product evolution.

- System-Level Debugging & Root-Cause Analysis

- Possess deep system-level understanding with the ability to investigate issues spanning multiple components, teams, and technology layers.

- Perform rigorous root-cause analysis, dependency mapping, cross-component impact assessment, fault isolation, and complex issue resolution.

- Analyze difficult problems that cross traditional organizational or component boundaries and drive teams toward permanent corrective actions rather than tactical fixes.

- Establish structured approaches for investigating intermittent,



performance-related, integration, and production issues.

- Clearly communicate technical findings, root causes, risks, and recommendations to engineering leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.

Core Technical Expertise

- Embedded C++ / Modern C++

- Linux / Embedded Linux

- Firmware architecture and system design

- Qt / QML

- Embedded UI architecture

- Firmware services and extensibility frameworks

- Multi-threading, concurrency, IPC and inter-process communication

- Memory management and performance optimization

- Debugging and profiling

- Firmware flashing and deployment

- GoogleTest / gtest

- Python-based engineering and automation tooling

- CI/CD and continuous integration frameworks

- Automated testing and regression frameworks

- Static analysis and code-quality governance

- Git-based development workflows

- Build systems and dependency management

- System-level troubleshooting and root-cause analysis

Preferred Domain Experience

- Experience working on enterprise printer / multifunction printer platforms or other complex embedded products.

- Robust understanding of printer firmware architecture, including areas such as print pipeline, device services, UI, connectivity, extensibility, device management, and platform services.

- Experience working across hardware/software boundaries and debugging issues involving both embedded software and underlying hardware.

- Experience with large-scale, multi-team embedded product development.

- Exposure to secure embedded development, OTA/firmware updates, device security, and enterprise manageability is a plus.

- Experience modernizing legacy firmware architectures and migrating toward more modular, scalable software platforms is highly desirable.

📌 Firmware Architect (Bengaluru)
🏢 Ascendion
📍 Bengaluru