# Contractor - Software Engineer

Senior Embedded Software Engineer (Modern C++) Location: Hyderabad Department: Engineering Employment Type: Full-Time Position Overview We are seeking a Senior Embedded Software Engineer to design, develop, and optimize high-performance, secure firmware for our next-generation hardware platforms. In this role, you will bridge the gap between low-level hardware interactions, high-level architectural design, and strict payment industry compliance. Our engineering culture prioritizes safety, deterministic execution, ultra-low latency, and transactional security. You will leverage modern C++17 to build robust, zero-overhead abstractions-completely eliminating legacy, error-prone C patterns. You will own the end-to-end automation pipeline, ensuring software quality via cross-compilation, advanced ISTO -compliant hardware tracing, and secure EMV transaction workflows. Core Responsibilities Ø EMV Protocol Implementation & Compliance: Design, optimize, and maintain EMV Contact (L1/L2) and Contactless kernels. Implement highly secure, zero-allocation APDU parsing pipelines and cryptographic wrappers that comply with strict payment network certifications. Ø Modern Driver Architecture: Design

- **Id**: 3868815
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cyient-contractor-software-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: contractor
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Hyderabad, India
- **Countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-09T05:16:19Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T15:33:50Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 29
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4395
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: IT Consulting & Digital Transformation, Engineering Services

## Company

- **Id**: 59344
- **Name**: Cyient
- **Domain**: cyient.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/cyient>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: services
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Zwayam

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 89
- **Open postings**: 22
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.455
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 46
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **CMake** — Optional: no
- **FreeRTOS** — Optional: no
- **GitHub Actions** — Optional: no
- **GitLab CI** — Optional: no
- **Jenkins** — Optional: no
- **QEMU** — Optional: no
- **RTOS** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 29

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T13:25:33Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 79
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.879
- **P room**: 0.9
- **Age days**: 29
- **Expected fill days**: 46
- **Reasons**: conf:2, velocity, win:mid, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

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