Experience Senior · 6+ yrs (6–8 years)
About the role
structured by ORI💼 6 to 8 years 📍Bangalore, India ⏰ On-site About Aina Aina is a design-led consumer hardware company building a new generation of interfaces for the age of AI. We believe today's computers are still designed for browsing, even as AI becomes capable of understanding context, intent, and acting on our behalf.
What you will do
- Own firmware architecture for Qualcomm QCC51xx/QCC30xx/QCC5/3 Bluetooth audio chips, designing low-power, always-connected firmware for BR/EDR, BLE, audio profiles, and connection management, plus patterns for OTA/DFU, fault handling, logging, and diagnostics.
- Translate product requirements into a firmware roadmap with clear milestones and releases, and lead board bring-up for new hardware revisions, covering boot, clocks, power, flash, GPIO, and peripherals like SPI, I2C, and UART.
- Hire, mentor, and lead a small, high-performing firmware team, while driving solid documentation and setting up CI/CD with automated regression testing.
- Define test strategy across board bring-up, feature testing, regression suites, and long-run reliability testing, including burn-in, stress, battery, and connectivity tests.
- Own factory and production-line test flows, including special test firmware, fixtures, and scripts, and lead root-cause analysis for field issues to ensure fixes propagate quickly and safely.
What they are looking for
- Direct, hands-on experience with Qualcomm Bluetooth audio SoCs (QCC51xx/QCC30xx/QCC5/3 family) across at least one full product cycle, from prototype through mass production. This is the primary requirement.
- 5 to 7 years of embedded firmware experience, including 3+ years leading teams or major projects.
Embedded firmwareBluetooth audioBR/EDRBLEOTA/DFUBoard bring-upCI/CDRoot-cause analysisQualcomm QCC51xx/QCC30xx/QCC5/3 SoCsSPII2CUART
Full posting text
Experience: 6–8 years