Embedded Software Engineer

Experience Level: 2-3 Years Experience
Location: Minel Engineering R&D Center, Bangalore

About MINEL

Miniaturize Electronics Private Limited is an electronics hardware company with a strong R&D foundation focused on high-performance and mission-critical electronic systems. Established in 2024, MINEL specializes in advanced hardware engineering, embedded software, manufacturing, and integration services across industries such as Space, Aerospace, Defense, Automotive, and Industrial Electronics.
With deep expertise in electronics design, system integration, power systems, RF systems, embedded solutions, and high-reliability manufacturing, MINEL delivers innovative and quality-driven engineering solutions supported by robust compliance standards and global supply chain capabilities.
MINEL operates with core values centered around Trust & Integrity, Transparency & Compliance, Innovation & Excellence, Commitment to Quality, and Agility & Intelligence.

Job Overview

We are seeking a motivated and technically driven Embedded Software Engineer with 2–3 years of hands-on experience to join our core Minel Product Development team. This is an exciting early-career opportunity for engineers passionate about embedded systems at the frontier of Space, Defense, and Drone technology. In this role, you will be a direct contributor to the design, development, and validation of high-reliability embedded software and firmware architectures purpose-built for high-end FPGA-based systems. The position is specifically focused on high-speed Baseband Data Handling (BDH) and advanced payload system software development, deployed across Space satellite applications, tactical Drones, and Anti-Drone Defense platforms. Working alongside experienced hardware designers and senior systems architects, you will tackle real engineering challenges — developing firmware that runs on cutting-edge FPGA SoC platforms (such as Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ and Microchip PolarFire), managing high-throughput data pipelines, and ensuring mission-critical performance in extreme operational environments. This role offers exceptional depth of technical exposure and rapid career growth for engineers who are eager to build expertise in one of the most demanding and rewarding domains in embedded engineering.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and optimize high-performance embedded software and bare-metal/RTOS drivers running on high-end FPGA systems (e.g., SoC architecture, soft-core and hard-core processors).
• Implement and debug mission-critical firmware logic targeting high-speed Baseband Data Handling (BDH), data packaging, and telemetry formatting for Space payloads.
• Develop flight software and control algorithms optimized for sub-systems within autonomous Drones and strategic Anti-Drone defense applications.
• Integrate low-level embedded software frameworks seamlessly with complex FPGA hardware fabrics, managing shared memory, DMA configurations, and interrupt handling structures.
• Perform hardware-software co-design validation and board-level bring-up of processing hardware utilizing standard laboratory equipment (high-bandwidth oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, protocol analyzers).
• Implement high-throughput bus protocols and communication standards (e.g., PCIe, SpaceWire, Ethernet, RocketIO, SPI, I2C, UART) to manage high-speed telemetry streams.
• Develop test environments and automation scripts (using Python, Tcl, or C) to validate software safety margins, memory allocations, and worst-case execution timing constraints.
• Collaborate closely with FPGA hardware design, RF engineering, power systems, and manufacturing teams to drive system-level electronic integration layout.
• Support DFMEA analysis, write detailed software design documentation, registry maps, interface control documents (ICDs), and production release reports.
• Maintain strict repository management, build tracking layouts, and code version control using robust Git workflows.
• Develop and optimize high-speed BDH firmware modules for real-time data acquisition, packetization, buffering, and downlink formatting targeting data rates in excess of several Gbps across FPGA fabric interfaces.
• Interface with FPGA RTL design teams to define and validate AXI/AXI-Stream bus interfaces, register maps, and handshaking protocols between the programmable logic (PL) and processing system (PS) domains.

Required Qualifications

Education / Degree: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electron…