Sr. Staff Engineer – Firmware/Software Development

Job Details:

Role: Sr. Staff Engineer – Firmware/Software Development

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Employment Type: Regular (PERM)

Work Mode: Hybrid

Role Overview:

This role is responsible for technical leadership and execution of firmware and software development for the RH850 Motor Control and Automotive Application Platform.

The Sr. Staff Engineer serves as a software domain authority, driving architecture, implementation quality, and developer experience while enabling scalable, userfriendly embedded development platforms.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead firmware and software architecture, design, and implementation for RH850 motor control and automotive application platforms.
• Drive software technical decisions with focus on scalability, performance, maintainability, and developer usability.
• Own firmware/software execution from concept through validation, qualification support, and release readiness.
• Collaborate closely with hardware, systems, validation, and applications teams to ensure optimized hardwaresoftware integration.
• Contribute to SDKs, drivers, middleware, reference applications, and development tools enabling rapid customer adoption.
• Ensure firmware/software deliverables meet automotive quality, reliability, and robustness expectations.
• Identify and mitigate softwarerelated technical risks across platform development.
• Actively influence developer experience, documentation quality, and platform usability.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field with 10+ years of experience.
• Strong expertise in embedded firmware/software development for automotive or realtime systems.
• Proven experience delivering productionquality embedded software for MCUbased platforms.
• Solid understanding of motor control software, realtime systems, and embedded development workflows.

• Working knowledge (handson preferred) of one or more host-side technology stacks, such as:

  • C/C++/ RTOS
  • C#/.NET / Python (automation/tools, GUIs, packaging)
  • UI frameworks such as Qt, WPF/WinUI, or equivalent
• Experience integrating host utilities with embedded targets over common interfaces (e.g., USB, UART, CAN/CANFD, Ethernet) and ensuring reliability across OS environments.

+Advantage

• Experience with embedded firmware ecosystems such as AUTOSAR drivers.
• Experience building embedded development platforms or SDKs with broad adoption across the embedded engineering community.