Firmware Engineer

Company Description

Hornbeam Tech Pvt Ltd is a technology solutions company dedicated to building reliable, secure, and high-performance systems for the connected world. Our work spans multiple industries, including automotive, healthcare, and industrial automation, where safety, precision, and innovation are essential. We combine expertise in hardware design, embedded software, and cybersecurity to deliver end-to-end solutions that tackle real-world problems. Our commitment is to create technology that works smarter, performs better, and keeps data and people safe. We collaborate with clients not just to build products but to shape the future of connected, intelligent systems.

Job Summary:

Firmware Engineer is primarily responsible for designing, developing, and optimizing embedded firmware for our IoT-enabled home automation products. Contribute to shaping the firmware architecture, driving innovation, and ensuring high reliability, security, and performance of connected smart home devices. Should be proficient in RTOS, Embedded C Programming, perform code review, guide and mentor entry level and Junior firmware engineers. Collaborate and closely work with cross functional teams like the Hardware and software team during different phases of product development. Firmware engineer is also required to have excellent communication, documentation, and organization skills and must be able to work in fast-paced, collaborative product development.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Design and develop efficient, scalable, and maintainable embedded firmware modules for RF SOC using
  C and on RTOS
  environments.
• Contribute and develop system architecture and firmware stack for connected home devices.
• Implement and optimize wireless communication stacks
  (Wi-Fi, BLE, Thread, Matter.
• Collaborate with the hardware team to define firmware-hardware interfaces ,bring-up new boards and perform POC activities.
• Work closely with cloud and mobile app teams to integrate devices into the overall IoT ecosystem.
• Use oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, multimeter , JTAG/SWD debuggers, Signal Generator etc., to test and troubleshoot embedded firmware modules.
• Conduct code reviews, guide junior engineers, and uphold best practices in embedded systems development.
• Implement security and reliability features for home automation IOT products.
• Create and maintain technical documentation and artifacts for different product development phases.
• Implement Drivers and Hardware abstraction layers like UART, I2C, SPI, GPIO, ADC, Interrupts, timers,PWM etc for IOT home automation products.
• Collaborate with team members in software development activities using the Scrum/Agile development process.

Preferred Skills:

• 4+ years of experience in embedded systems development.
• Embedded Firmware development using Embedded
  C and RTOS
  is mandatory.
• Experience in the home automation domain or with Matter protocol is highly desirable.Wireless communication stacks and protocols like 
  (Wi-Fi, BLE, Thread, Matter, OTBR , Matter Bridge)
• Experience with RTOS (e.g., FreeRTOS, Zephyr, ThreadX) and bare-metal development for 32 bit Micro-controllers.
• Embedded Protocols like UART, I2C, SPI, GPIO, ADC, Interrupts, timers,PWM etc.
• End to end product development experience for IOT home automation products.
• Proficient in debugging tools and hardware validation instruments.
• Experience in firmware development tools like IDEs, Tool-chains , cross compilers, JIRA , Github.
• Scripting experience (Python, Bash) for testing and automation.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity principles and Firmware update over OTA in embedded systems.

Qualification and Experience:

• BE/B-TECH or ME/M-TECH in Electronics or Electronics Communication, Computer science with good academic results.
• 4+ Years of experience in the specific industry.
• Immediate or can join within 1 month.