Responsibilities

- Lead firmware architecture, design, development, and testing for embedded medical device systems.

- Collaborate with hardware and software engineers to define firmware requirements and system architecture.

- Participate throughout the product lifecycle, including concept development, requirements, design, verification, validation, and clinical support.

- Support hardware bring-up and assist in debugging current electronic designs.

- Troubleshoot and lead root cause investigations of development, manufacturing, and field issues.

- Develop tools and methodologies to improve engineering efficiency and product quality.

- Create and maintain firmware documentation, technical reports, and design records.

- Provide technical leadership through design reviews, code reviews, mentoring, and the establishment of firmware development best practices.

- Support verification, validation, and regulatory compliance activities.

- Evaluate technical risks and trade-offs involving safety, security, reliability, power consumption, and usability.

- Define firmware verification strategies and support test planning activities.

- Contribute to cybersecurity, risk management, and design control activities throughout the product development lifecycle.

- Develop and maintain automated unit, integration, and hardware-in-the-loop test solutions to support product verification activities.

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent engineering discipline (Master's degree preferred).





- 7+ years of progressive experience developing embedded firmware in C and/or C++ for microcontroller-based systems.

- Demonstrated experience providing technical leadership in embedded firmware development, including architecture, design reviews, and mentoring.

- Experience developing firmware for Arm Cortex-M or similar embedded processor platforms.

- Experience developing low-level peripheral drivers (SPI, UART, DMA, ADC/DAC, timers).

- Strong understanding of electrical circuits, power management, and sensor interfacing.

- Excellent hardware/firmware debugging skills, including analog and digital electronics, using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and JTAG/SWD debuggers.

- Experience developing products within regulated design control or quality management system (QMS) environments.

- Experience with configuration management, issue tracking, and problem resolution processes.

- Excellent technical documentation and written and verbal communication skills.

- Experience with real-time operating systems (RTOS), such as Micrium, FreeRTOS, ThreadX, or equivalent.

- Experience developing firmware for battery-powered or ultra-low-power embedded systems.

- Experience reading schematics, datasheets,



and hardware design documentation.

- Experience with collaborative software development workflows using Git-based version control systems.

- Experience developing automated unit, integration, or verification tests for embedded software.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience developing implantable medical devices, neurostimulation systems, or Class II/III medical devices.

- Experience developing medical devices within FDA-regulated environments, including familiarity with IEC 62304, ISO 14971, ISO 14708-3, IEC 60601, and safety-critical software development practices.

- Experience with low-power wireless power transfer, coil systems, or RF technologies.

- Experience with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) firmware development, including pairing, bonding, GATT services, and secure communications.

- Experience with automated unit testing frameworks such as Ceedling, Unity, CMock, GoogleTest, or equivalent.

- Experience implementing cybersecurity controls, secure communications, cryptographic services, secure boot, or secure firmware update mechanisms in embedded systems.

- Experience with MISRA C, static analysis tools, and coding standards for embedded systems.

- Experience with Silicon Labs EFM32/EFR32 platforms, Gecko SDK, Micrium OS, or similar embedded ecosystems.

- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Docker-based build systems, and test automation using Python.

- Experience with cybersecurity risk management, software bill of materials (SBOM) management, and vulnerability assessment.

📌 Senior Firmware Engineer (Pune)
🏢 Agiliad
📍 Pune