Orion Innovation is a premier, award-winning, global business and technology services firm. Orion delivers game-changing business transformation and product development rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, with a unique combination of agility, scale, and maturity. We work with a wide range of clients across many industries including financial services, professional services, telecommunications and media, consumer products, automotive, industrial automation, professional sports and entertainment, life sciences, ecommerce, and education.
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Embedded Software Engineer to join our Delivery department. This role focuses on designing, developing, and implementing embedded software solutions using industry-leading methodologies and tools. The engineer will work on embedded software for connectivity-enabled products and collaborate closely with Hardware, Cloud, Mobile, and QA teams. The role requires strong technical ownership, practical debugging skills, and the ability to deliver reliable software in a cross-functional engineering environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, debug, and maintain embedded software for IoT / connected devices.
- Implement features related to device connectivity, provisioning, diagnostics, OTA, and system behavior.
- Work across firmware, middleware, driver, and application layers.
- Contribute to software architecture discussions and technical design reviews.
- Work with connectivity technologies such as Wi-Fi, MQTT, OTA, and device-to-cloud communication.
- Integrate embedded software with hardware components, cloud services, and mobile applications.
- Support end-to-end debugging of connectivity, provisioning, and integration issues.
- Investigate field issues and participate in root cause analysis and corrective actions.
- Write testable, maintainable, and reliable embedded software components.
- Support unit testing, integration testing, validation, and QA activities.
- Analyze defects, logs, traces, and system behavior to identify root causes.
- Ensure performance, reliability, security, and maintainability of delivered software.
Required Skills & Experience:
- 3+ years of hands-on embedded software development experience.
- Strong programming experience with C and/or C++.
- Experience with RTOS, Embedded Linux, or bare-metal development.
- Good understanding of embedded architecture, memory management, concurrency, and real-time constraints.
- Experience with communication interfaces and protocols such as UART, SPI, I2C, CAN, TCP/IP, or similar.
- Practical debugging experience using JTAG, logs, traces, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, or similar tools.
- Experience with Git, Jira, Confluence, or similar engineering tools.
- Ability to work effectively in cross-functional environments involving firmware, hardware, cloud, mobile, QA, and product teams.
Nice to have:
- Experience with IoT platforms, smart devices, HVAC, consumer electronics, or industrial devices.
- Knowledge of Wi-Fi, BLE, Thread, MQTT, TLS, OTA, provisioning flows, and diagnostics.
- Experience with device-to-cloud integration using AWS, Azure, or similar platforms.
- Knowledge of bootloaders, secure boot, firmware update mechanisms, and embedded security basics.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines for embedded software.
- Familiarity with requirements traceability and test-driven development.
What we offer:
- Dynamic and supporting international teams.
- Regular assessments and performance reviews. You will have the opportunity for promotion, bonuses and a raise in accordance with the pace at which you develop and your performance.
- Remote, hybrid or office work.
- 20-25 vacation days per year.
- Equipment for work, laptop and all necessary additions.
- Access to trainings and courses.
- Private health insurance.
- FIT Pass card for many sports’ facilities.
Orion is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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