Technical Lead HW/FW

Location: Noida, IndiaThales people architect identity management and data protection solutions at the heart of digital security. Business and governments rely on us to bring trust to the billons of digital interactions they have with people. Our technologies and services help banks exchange funds, people cross borders, energy become smarter and much more. More than 30,000 organizations already rely on us to verify the identities of people and things, grant access to digital services, analyze vast quantities of information and encrypt data to make the connected world more secure.Present in India since 1953, Thales is headquartered in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, and has operational offices and sites spread across Bengaluru, Delhi, Gurugram, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune among others. Over 1800 employees are working with Thales and its joint ventures in India. Since the beginning, Thales has been playing an essential role in India’s growth story by sharing its technologies and expertise in Defence, Transport, Aerospace and Digital Identity and Security markets.

As passionate firmware engineer, along with our excellent development team, will be responsible for all the firmware related efforts like firmware coding, debug, unit test, code review, integration test, CI/CD pipeline, build necessary software utilities.

You should be able to work independently with little supervision. You should have excellent organization and problem-solving skills. Your goal will be to develop high-quality firmware that is aligned with user needs and business goals.

Missions and responsibilities :

• Be responsible for the analysis of HW/FW requirements, prototyping, general and detailed designs, coding and validation.
• Improve the quality of the HW/FW through peer reviews of the designs and code to enhance functional test coverage.
• Develop tools and applications by producing clean, efficient code.
• Communicate technical knowledge and negotiate technical issues across worldwide teams.
• Identify risks and form contingency plans as soon as possible.
• Keep up to date with industry trends and developments.
• Be transparent with the team about challenges, failures and successes.

Required Education:

Bachelor or Master degree in Computer Science, Electronics Engineering, or a related field, advanced degree desirable.

Working Experience:

At least 5 years development experience in embedded development, prefer in Security related Industries.

Experience in a similar role would be advantageous

Technical Skills:

Essential:

• Hands on experience in embedded software development in C
• Expert in USB protocol, 7816 specification
• Strong knowledge on the security (method, algorithm, tools, etc)
• Excellent technical, diagnostic, and troubleshooting skills
• Excellent knowledge of FW/HW design and implementation, excellent technical knowledge of broad business areas
• Proficiency in software engineering tools (Git, Jira)
• Familiarity with SQL Server/MySQL
• Some knowledge of hardware such as understanding schematics and using an oscilloscope
• Understanding hardware related issues in some degree
• Ability to define scalable CI/CD pipelines

Desirable:

• Familiar with one of the assembly languages (80x86, 8051 …) is a plus
• Good knowledge with agile methodology

Personnel Skills:

• Organized, self-motivated, enthusiastic and proven rapid learning capability
• Good decision making, presentation and organization skills
• A strong problem solver, analytical thinker, with strong verbal and written communication skills and work well within a team environment

Language:

• Good skills of English listening, speaking, reading and writing.

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