Senior Embedded Software Engineer
First seen by Alion on Sep 10, 2026.
About the Role :
We are looking for a Senior Embedded Software Engineer to join our Bangalore R&D team and contribute to the development of high-performance embedded systems for next-generation smart energy and IoT products.
The role involves hands-on embedded Linux development, firmware architecture, system integration, debugging, and optimization across the complete product development lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities :
- Design, develop, integrate, test, and maintain embedded software for Linux-based IoT and energy-management devices.
- Develop robust system-level and application-level software using C and C++, with a strong focus on performance, reliability, scalability, and maintainability.
- Develop user-space applications and system services for Embedded Linux platforms.
- Work closely with hardware, firmware, electrical, QA, and product engineering teams to define software requirements and develop integrated solutions.
- Interface embedded applications with sensors, actuators, microcontrollers, communication interfaces, and other hardware components.
- Analyze system behavior, troubleshoot complex software and hardware issues, and perform root-cause analysis.
- Optimize software for memory utilization, CPU performance, boot time, communication reliability, and overall system stability.
- Develop and maintain software components for IoT-connected devices and contribute to secure device communication and data processing.
- Participate in architecture discussions, technical design reviews, code reviews, and software quality initiatives.
- Use debugging and development tools to diagnose issues across firmware, operating system, and application layers.
- Develop Python-based utilities and scripts for testing, diagnostics, automation, and system validation where required.
- Work with Git, Docker, build systems, debugging tools, and modern software development practices.
- Support software releases, production issues, field failures, and product maintenance activities.
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to technical knowledge-sharing within the team.
Required Skills :
- Strong hands-on expertise in C and C++ programming.
- 10+ years of experience in embedded software or firmware development.
- Strong experience with Embedded Linux and Linux user-space application development.
- Experience developing software for resource-constrained and high-performance embedded systems.
- Strong understanding of operating-system concepts, processes, threads, IPC, memory management, and synchronization.
- Experience working with hardware interfaces, sensors, microcontrollers, and communication protocols.
- Strong debugging and problem-solving capabilities across hardware and software layers.
- Experience with Git and modern software development tools.
- Working knowledge of Python for scripting and development support.
- Experience with Docker or containerized development environments is desirable.
- Strong understanding of software development lifecycle, coding standards, testing, and code review practices.
- Experience in IoT, energy technology, power electronics, industrial devices, or other connected embedded products is an advantage.
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Skills
Embedded, Embedded System, Linux, Firmware, System Integration, IoT, C, C++, Microcontroller, Sensor, Memory Management