Principal Engineer - Embedded

About the role

As a Principal Engineer, you will play a crucial role in the engineering team to achieve organizational goals. This position requires a seasoned engineering professional with strong technical knowledge on cryptography, software development in Rust, and internet protocols. In addition, technical leadership skills and the ability to drive innovation are desired for this position.

Key responsibilities

• Lead system‑level software development efforts, coordinating with hardware teams, manufacturing, product owners and other stakeholders.
• Design, develop, implement, validate and document sub‑system and system‑level embedded designs in firmware (Verilog) and software (Rust, C) for secure communication devices.
• Analyze and debug embedded systems to ensure stability, reliability and performance.
• Implement test cases for test automation of the developed embedded devices.
• Enable successful delivery of projects, ensuring timelines and quality standards are met.
• Drive innovation by identifying opportunities for technical improvement and automation.

Required profile

• Minimum of 10 years of relevant engineering experience.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or a related field.

Required skills

• Jira, Confluence and Git.
• Rust programming language.
• FPGA development using Verilog.
• C programming for Linux kernel, boot loaders and FreeRTOS.
• Embedded software architectures and design patterns.
• Linux‑based systems built with Yocto.
• IP‑based communications over Ethernet and remote network management.
• Cryptography and information security concepts.