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You'll own firmware from architecture through hardware bring-up and field debugging, working closely with the electronics team on the boards it runs on. Responsibilities •Design and implement real-time embedded firmware in C/C++ for precision control loops, sensor acquisition, and actuation on ARM Cortex-M/R, RISC-V, or equivalent real-time microcontrollers •Develop and tune closed-loop control algorithms (PID, state-space, observer-based, disturbance rejection) from continuous-domain design through fixed-point or floating-point implementation on target •Build and maintain communication stacks: SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, RS-422/485, and industrial fieldbus interfaces, with attention to timing budgets and bus arbitration •Develop bare-metal, RTOS-based (FreeRTOS/Zephyr or similar), and embedded Linux firmware architectures as the deployment demands, with deterministic timing, interrupt design, DMA-driven data paths, and careful memory, watchdog, and clock-tree budgeting •Implement bootloaders and field firmware-update mechanisms with fail-safe recovery •Build fault detection, watchdogs, and safety interlocks into every subsystem •Integrate sensors and actuators, and support hardware bring-up and debug with the electronics team, including schematic review, pin assignment, and interface definition ahead of board layout •Debug at the hardware level using oscilloscopes, logic analysers, and JTAG/SWD •Build hardware-in-the-loop test benches, write firmware tests, and support validation and field commissioning •Maintain disciplined version control, documentation, and code review practicesRequirements Requirements\nB.Tech/M.Tech in Electronics, Electrical Engineering, ECE, or Computer Engineering\n2-3+ years of hands-on, professional embedded firmware experience on hardware that has actually shipped - not coursework or simulation-only projects\nStrong C and C++ for embedded systems: memory model, deterministic subsets, register-level driver development\nDeep experience with real-time embedded architectures across ARM Cortex-M/R, RISC-V, Microchip SAM/PIC32, or automotive/aerospace-grade cores (e.g. AURIX/TriCore, RH850, SPARC/LEON) - bare-metal and RTOS development\nWorking embedded Linux experience for supervisory or compute-class boards: kernel/BSP bring-up, Yocto or Buildroot, device drivers, U-Boot, and PREEMPT_RT where real-time and general-purpose compute (x86 or ARM-class application processors) coexist on one platform\nDemonstrated experience integrating multiple concurrent sensors and actuators on hardware that shipped to a customer or the field, ideally in automotive, medical device, aerospace/defense, or space systems\nControl systems: multi-loop PID, state-space, observers/Kalman filtering, stability and margin analysis, discretisation for real-time implementation\nCommunication protocols: SPI, I2C, UART, CAN/CAN-FD, RS-422/485, plus exposure to at least one higher-determinism or domain-specific bus (FlexRay, Automotive Ethernet/TSN, MIL-STD-1553, SpaceWire, or EtherCAT); experience with real-time timing and bus-loading analysis\nReal-time systems fundamentals: interrupt architecture, DMA, worst-case timing analysis, and jitter measurement\nCircuit and control simulation: MATLAB/Simulink or Python (SciPy/control)\nStrong hardware debugging skills with oscilloscopes, logic analysers, and JTAG/SWD debuggers\nCritical, hands-on PCB and schematic fluency: expected to make and defend hard trade-offs - memory budgeting, watchdog configuration, timer/clock-tree matching, interrupt and clock-domain alignment - jointly with the electronics team, ahead of board layout\nHands-on soldering, debugging, and board bring-up skills\nProficiency with version control (Git) and disciplined documentation\nAbility to own a firmware subsystem end-to-end: design, build, test, deploy Nice-to-Have\nFPGA development (Xilinx/Intel) and Verilog/VHDL, including timing closure on real hardware\nMotor control firmware, including Field-Oriented Control (FOC) and high-resolution encoder interfaces\nExperience with functional safety or safety-critical development practices (ISO 26262, IEC 62304, DO-178C, or ECSS)\nExposure to AUTOSAR or other automotive/aerospace software architecture standards\nSpace-qualified or defense-grade electronics and firmware (MIL-STD-810, DO-160, radiation-tolerant design)\nPrecision positioning systems and pointing/tracking control\nPython for tooling, automation, and test scripts\nPublished research or patents in relevant fields\nBenefits What We Offer •Opportunity to build firmware and control systems for next-generation space optical communication from scratch •World-class lab facilities and test equipment •Significant equity ownership with early-stage upside potential •Collaborative Multi-disciplinary research environment","description_format":"text","description_chars":4906,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":2,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Space & Aerospace","Ground Systems","Optical Communications"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-19T03:26:39Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":15,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.414,"p_room":0.35,"age_days":47,"expected_fill_days":20,"reasons":["conf:2","win:tail","comp:junior"],"computed_at":"2026-10-20T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/qosmic-embedded-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/qosmic-embedded-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-20T13:26:43Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":14904,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-21T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":2991382},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=2991382"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fqosmic-embedded-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fqosmic-embedded-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fqosmic-embedded-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/qosmic-embedded-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fqosmic-embedded-engineer"}]}