Role Overview:

We are seeking an experienced Senior DSP Protection Algorithm Engineer to join our R&D; team. The ideal candidate will take ownership of firmware design, development, and optimization for high-performance embedded systems. This role involves driving innovation, ensuring software reliability, and collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to deliver cutting-edge solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

- Design, develop, enhance, and maintain embedded firmware for Protection Relays, while ensuring deterministic real-time performance, system reliability, and maintainable software architecture.

- Strong experience in Embedded C/C++ development for DSP-based embedded systems

- Perform unit testing, integration testing, system testing, hardware validation, and real-time performance verification to ensure firmware quality, reliability, and compliance with product requirements.

- Conduct design reviews, code reviews, root cause analysis, and technical design discussions while promoting coding standards, software quality, maintainability, and reusable software components

- Provide accurate effort estimation, technical risk assessment, and timely delivery of firmware components while meeting project milestones and quality objectives.

Qualifications & Skills:

- Education: Bachelor's, Master's in Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Communication.

- Firmware Development Expertise: Extensive experience in the complete embedded firmware development lifecycle for Protection Relays, requirements analysis, design, implementation, testing, validation.

- Power-system fundamentals: Three-phase systems, fault analysis, CT/VT characteristics,



symmetrical components

- DSP mathematics: Discrete Fourier Transform / Rapid Fourier Transform algorithms, RMS, phasor estimation, frequency estimation.

- Protection algorithms: Overcurrent, differential, distance, directional, thermal and negative-sequence protection

- Standards and testing: Applicable IEC/IEEE protection and testing standards, requirements traceability

- Communication Skill: Excellent written and verbal communication skills with experience preparing technical documentation, design specifications, architecture documents.

- Adaptability & Continuous Learning: Self-driven and proactive professional with a passion for learning emerging embedded technologies, multicore architectures and evolving power system protection and substation automation standards.

Experience Requirements:

- Experience: 8-10+ years in Embedded firmware for Protection relays, or Power systems.

- Core expertise: Experience implementing protection algorithms such as overcurrent, directional, differential, distance, negative-sequence and thermal protection.

- Domain knowledge: Hands-on experience with ADC sampling, DMA, circular buffers, real-time data acquisition and synchronized multichannel processing.

- Strengths: Designing deterministic, high-performance, maintainable firmware for mission-critical applications with strict timing, data integrity requirements.

- Real-time performance: Processing latency, window delay, algorithm execution time and worst-case execution time

- Tools & Debugging: Proficient with IDEs, DSP intrinsics, compiler optimization, and version control systems (e.g., SVN, Git).

📌 Senior DSP Protection Algorithm Engineer (Firmware) (Bengaluru)
🏢 Phase Power Protection
📍 Bengaluru