Required Competencies - Experience

Strong professional experience in firmware development or embedded software development in a RTOS environment.

Demonstrable experience in porting and use of RTOS; Zephyr, FreeRTOS

Detailed experience with SoC bring-up, bootloaders, platform initialization, board initialization, peripherals such as PCIe, I2C, SPI, SMBUS, UART.

Proven experience working with multiple teams on Root cause analysis, troubleshooting, and debugging skills resulting into solving complex Hardware/Firmware interface issues

Familiarity with PCIe/CXL validation and debugging is a big plus.

Demonstrable experience of hardware and firmware architecture, design and coding for solutions at scale.

Experience performing thorough code reviews, unit testing, and documentation.

Proficiency with modern Software development and test workflows (CI/gitlab/makefile/CMake/TDD etc.)

Required Competencies - Skills

Strong programming skills in C/C++ for embedded systems. Good understanding of Linux kernel internals and driver architecture.

Solid knowledge of CPU architecture (ex. ARM, ARC, RISC-V), memory map, and register-level programming and debugging

Demonstrable experience with software development for systems with Linux OS or multi-threaded RTOS environments.

Good knowledge of bootloaders and boot sequence and Experience in board bring-up and hardware debugging

Exposure to high-speed signalling technologies: PCIe, CXL

Exposure to ASIC hardware validation & debugging

Familiarity with scripting languages (Python/Shell) for automation

Familiarity with debugging tools: JTAG, UART, Oscilloscope, Logic Analyzer.

Strong working knowledge of version control tools (Git)

Good knowledge of Baseboard Management Controller systems; OpenBMC, OpenBIC

Good understanding of computer architectures including processors, buses, and memories.

Ability to collaborate with hardware, validation, and application teams for end-to-end integration