Firmware Engineer
Role Overview
Senior Firmware Engineer accountable for embedded firmware design, development, and certification for DO-178C DAL-A/B airborne systems.
Role owns firmware architecture and implementation through requirements, structural coverage, and SOI audit, and leads and mentors engineers.
Position is the technical authority on firmware design and coding standards and represents the company with customers, DERs, and certification authorities.
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Position overview
Senior Firmware Engineer accountable for embedded firmware design, development, and certification for DO-178C DAL-A/B airborne systems.
Role owns firmware architecture and implementation through requirements, structural coverage, and SOI audit, and leads and mentors engineers.
Position is the technical authority on firmware design and coding standards and represents the company with customers, DERs, and certification authorities.
Responsibilities
- Own architecture, design, and implementation for avionics systems using STM32/Cortex-M7, ESP32, and RX72N platforms.
- Author and review HLR/LLR and maintain bidirectional traceability from system requirements through code and tests.
- Lead and mentor firmware engineers, set design and coding standards, conduct reviews, and build DO-178C development capability.
- Develop and review safety-critical embedded C to MISRA C:2012 and apply PC-Lint Plus or equivalent static analysis.
- Support SOI audits and discuss design, verification evidence, and open findings with customers, DERs, and certification authorities.
- Own requirements-based tests, conduct MC/DC and structural coverage analysis, and close DO-178C verification findings.
- Follow SCMP and SQAP; maintain audit-ready firmware baselines, problem reports, and lifecycle data.
- Triage defects and anomalies, assess certification and schedule impacts, and drive root-cause corrections.
- Improve development tooling, review efficiency, and team capability.
Essential qualifications and experience
- Bachelor's degree in Electronics, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline; substantial certified-firmware delivery may substitute for formal qualifications.
- 8–10 years of embedded firmware development, including at least 2 years leading or mentoring engineers.
- DO-178C DAL-A lifecycle experience, including PSAC, SDP, SVP, SCMP, and SQAP artifacts.
- Experience authoring and reviewing HLR/LLR, supporting SOI audits, and delivering requirements-based verification, MC/DC, and structural coverage on certified programs.
- Fluent professional English and willingness to travel internationally.
- Avionics or aerospace background required; equivalent regulated safety-critical experience in defence electronics, automotive functional safety, medical devices, or rail is accepted.
- Embedded C experience on STM32/Cortex-M7, ESP32, and RX72N using MISRA C:2012 and PC-Lint Plus.
Desirable and valued knowledge
- Formal DO-178C lifecycle training or certification is desirable.
- Avionics buses: ARINC 429 BPRZ, ARINC 664 Part 7 AFDX, CAN Aerospace, MIL-STD-1553B Manchester II, and 8.33 kHz radio channel spacing are desirable.
- DOORS, Polarion, VectorCAST, or equivalent requirements, test, and traceability tools are desirable.
- Working awareness of ARP4754B, ARP4761A, DO-160, and DO-254 is valued.
Pay and benefits
- Pay is ₹410,684.64–₹1,789,410.86 per year.
- Benefits include paid sick time and paid time off.
Work location
- The role is based at the company's Indore facility and is in person.
- The position works across Australian, US, Irish, and Indian operations and requires international travel to customer and company sites.
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