Designation: Robotics Engineer — Firmware & Hardware

Location: Bangalore

Employment Type: Full-time

Experience: 1–3 years

Openings: 2

We are hiring 2 Robotics Engineers across two tracks — Firmware and Hardware. Both are full-stack robotics roles with hands-on ownership across embedded systems, electronics, board bring-up, validation, and robot-level integration.

1. Robotics Engineer (Firmware)

This is a full-stack embedded role, you will grow into owning the platform from PCB to writing the firmware along with designing, bringing up, and validating the hardware it runs on.

What you'll do

● Design and maintain firmware in C on a real-time OS for 32-bit ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers: task architecture, inter-task communication, and interrupt-driven, DMA-based peripheral drivers.

● Develop drivers for a variety of modules, sensors, and field devices — working from the datasheet over interfaces such as SPI, I²C, UART, GPIO, CAN/CAN-FD, and RS-485 (Modbus RTU).

● Develop and maintain communication between the microcontroller and an on-board computer over serial and Ethernet links, using a DDS-based middleware protocol.

● Contribute to the design of a mixed-signal controller PCB — schematic review, component selection, BOM and layout work (Fusion 360 or KiCad).

● Bring up and validate controller boards: rail checks, bus signal integrity on the scope and root-causing board-level defects.

● Maintain firmware and hardware documentation: design notes, interface specifications, BOMs, test points, bring-up reports, and change history.

Must have

● B.E./B.Tech/M.E./M.Tech in Electronics, Electrical, Computer Engineering or equivalent.

● Strong embedded C (C11) on 32-bit MCUs; comfortable with memory-mapped peripherals, linker scripts and debugging hard faults.

● Hands-on RTOS experience (FreeRTOS or similar): tasks, queues, semaphores, priorities, and diagnosing concurrency issues such as priority inversion and races.

● Experience with at least two or more of the given: CAN/CAN-FD, Modbus/RS-485, UART, DMA, Ethernet/LwIP, SPI/I²C.

● Experience with a major MCU vendor ecosystem (e.g., Infineon PSOC Creator, STM32CubeIDE or similar): HAL-level drivers, vendor configuration tools,



SWD/JTAG debugging and build process.

● Sound knowledge of PCB design fundamentals: component selection and footprints, decoupling, grounding and return paths, and routing practices.

● Fluency with lab instruments — oscilloscope, logic analyzer, power supplies, electronic load — and the habit of verifying on the wire, not just in code.

● Version control discipline (Git) and clear documentation of designs, development reports, and defects.

Valuable to have but not mandatory

● Hands-on board bring-up: verifying power rails, clocks, and communication interfaces on first prototypes, and root-causing board-level defects.

● Robotics, AGV/AMR, automotive, or industrial automation background.

● Power supply design experience for battery-powered systems: DC-DC converter selection and integration, input protection, and power budgeting across logic and actuator rails.

● Robotics middleware experience: ROS 2 and/or resource-constrained middleware clients on MCUs.

● CANopen protocol knowledge (object dictionary, SDO/PDO, drive profiles such as CiA 402).

● Working knowledge of EMI/EMC fundamentals.

2. Robotics Engineer (Hardware)

This is a full-stack electronics role weighted towards hardware. You will grow into owning the controller board from schematic and layout, through fabrication and bring-up, to the wiring and grounding that ties the robot together and write the firmware that runs on it.

What you'll do

● Design mixed-signal controller PCBs: power tree, component selection, schematic capture and design review (Fusion 360 or KiCad).

● Lay out multilayer boards: stackup, placement, decoupling, ground and return paths, and routing of noise-sensitive nets.

● Take boards through fabrication and assembly: fab outputs (Gerbers, drill, pick-and-place), BOM management,



and coordinating with PCB vendors.

● Bring up and validate boards: rail and clock checks, bus signals on the scope, load and thermal checks, and root-causing board-level defects.

● Write firmware in C on 32-bit ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers: bring-up and test code for new boards, and drivers for sensors and field devices.

● Plan system-level electrical integration: connectors and wiring harnesses, cabling and termination, fusing, and grounding scheme.

● Maintain hardware documentation: schematics, BOMs, test points, bring-up reports, wiring diagrams and change history.

Must have

● B.E./B.Tech/M.E./M.Tech in Electronics, Electrical, Computer Engineering or equivalent.

● Hands-on PCB design: schematic capture and multilayer layout in KiCad, Fusion 360, Altium or similar.

● PCB fundamentals: component selection and footprints, following the layout guidance in a datasheet, decoupling, grounding and return paths, and routing practices.

● Hardware side of digital interfaces — SPI, I²C, UART, GPIO, CAN/CAN-FD, RS-485, Ethernet — transceivers, termination and biasing.

● Working embedded C on 32-bit MCUs: able to bring up a board or set up configurations in a vendor ecosystem (STM32CubeIDE, Infineon PSOC Creator or similar), write or modify HAL-level drivers, and debug over SWD/JTAG.

● Fluency with lab instruments — oscilloscope, logic analyzer, power supply, electronic load, multimeter and the habit of verifying on the wire, not just in the schematic.

● Comfortable with hand soldering, rework and probing on prototype boards.

● Version control discipline (Git) and clear documentation of designs, reports and defects.

Good to have

● Robotics, AGV/AMR, automotive, or industrial automation background.

● Battery-powered systems: pack integration, BMS interfacing, and high-current layout.

● PCB design and IEC standards, and EMI/EMC fundamentals.

● Signal integrity and thermal analysis, including simulation where it helps.

● Designing test jigs and fixtures for board validation and production testing.

● Exposure to RTOS-based firmware or robotics middleware (FreeRTOS, ROS 2).

📌 Robotics Engineer (Hardware + Firmware) (Bengaluru)
🏢 NMTronics India
📍 Bengaluru