Associate Engineer – Embedded Software

Eaton — Hadapsar, Pune

₹4–10 LPA (HireSetu estimate) · 0–2 yrs exp · Freshers eligible · Part-time · onsite

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Quick answer: A 0-2 year firmware role in Pune that pairs C on bare metal and an RTOS with hands-on bench work: STM32 or ESP32 boards, an oscilloscope and logic analyser, and low-level drivers for I2C, SPI, UART and USB.

From Eaton's job posting

What you’ll do

Associate Firmware Engineer is responsible to understand product requirements, design and develop code, module level and system level embedded software design/coding, validation using programming language C. Provide technical solutions, follow defined processes & lead in product development & technology innovations. Enrich & foster climate of innovation to drive growth & accelerate capability development. Additionally, assisting the technical lead for conceptualization, engineering and software specification of new product platform solutions that meet the stated market requirements for performance, cost, and functionality for Embedded Systems Products.

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"Roles: The Associate Engineer will be involved in design & development of embedded projects encompassing functionality from industrial protocols stacks, cybersecurity feature implementation and to the development of a shared, reusable, secure, scalable software. Its Responsibility of Associate Firmware Engineer to Enrich & foster climate of innovation to drive growth & accelerate capability development, which includes,

  • Contribution in product development & technology innovation by understanding product requirements, design & development, validation & feature enhancements using programming languages like Assembly, C on embedded systems.
  • Contribute in Project, process, and overall technical execution on firmware development activities of product development.
  • Collaborate with global product engineering team and perform software development activities during project execution.
  • Associate Firmware Engineer should be proficient with current firmware development technology, tools and practices, and have capabilities in quickly learning and developing a large set of communication protocol technologies, languages C, C++ and concurrent software development.
  • Basic Hardware Design Knowledge and Hardware/Firmware Debugging Skills
  • Hand on experience of lab instruments – Oscilloscopes, Logic Analyzers etc.
  • Develops an understanding of both technology and product concepts and is able to articulate product and software design along with seniors. Ensures quality of delivery in accordance with the plan adhering to the standard practices used in agile/waterfall model.
  • Participate in solution and code reviews with team members for modules/tasks and ensuring that best practices and efficient coding standards are adhered to.

Qualifications

Demonstrated skill in developing original designs with C/C++ in embedded environments including bare-metal, multi-threaded RTOS, and embedded operating systems.

  • Must have specific experience with common 8/16/32-bit microcontroller and/or embedded processing platforms such as STM32 and ESP32.
  • Experinece in independently using electronics lab equipment to develop/troubleshoot low-level drivers and hardware integration for interfaces such as I2C, SPI, UART, USB, etc.
  • Should have a strong understanding of embedded software design and architectural concepts as well as the integration between firmware and hardware.
  • Experience with Agile methodologies and scrum teams is preferable.
  • Well-developed written and verbal communication skills.
  • Skilled in writing specifications and end-user documentation.
  • Experience with software tools like JIRA, JAMA, Coverity, Black Duck is preferable.
  • Should have a strong understanding of software development tools and methodologies used in the context of embedded systems. Familiarity with source control via established systems such as Git.

B.E.

0-2 Years

Embedded C, RTOS

Excellent communication skills and the ability to work with various cultures across the globe

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HireSetu's note

The bench is where the gaps show

Some embedded roles let you write the driver and hand the board to someone else. Here the same person develops it and troubleshoots it, probing buses and reading logic analyser traces to work out whether the fault sits in the code, the timing or the hardware around it.

If your projects stopped at a working demo on a dev board, be straight about that. What counts is whether you have chased a bug down to a physical signal.

Concurrency and the wire-level details

RTOS work runs alongside bare-metal code, so know tasks, priorities, context switches, mutexes and what is safe to do inside an interrupt. Priority inversion and reentrancy are the traps once several threads share one core.

For I2C, SPI, UART and USB, learn the framing, clocking and addressing, and what each looks like on a scope when it breaks. Cybersecurity is named as part of the work, so a basic grip on secure boot, key storage and signed firmware updates helps.

Specs, reviews and calls across time zones

The job is not only code. You write specifications and end-user documentation, sit through module and system reviews, and work under agile or waterfall depending on the project. Coverity and Black Duck are static analysis and open-source scanning tools, so both will be part of getting code merged.

The engineering team is spread across countries, which means early or late calls. Ask how long a module takes from first commit to sign-off.

The part-time label needs pinning down

Hadapsar, Pune, onsite and listed as part-time. That is an odd combination for this kind of work and this experience band, so ask what part-time means in practice: shorter days, three days a week, or a full week recorded under a different contract. It decides what else you can take on.

Ask as well which platform and product line you would join, how much of the role is validation versus new development, and whether industrial protocol stacks or the cybersecurity features take more of the year.

Drafted with AI from Eaton's job posting and checked by Prashanth Jakkula before publishing. See our Editorial Policy.

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