Staff Firmware Engineer - FW Integration Engineer (9-13 Years )

Key Responsibilities

Code Integration & Branch Management

Repository Ownership & Code Sanity

- Act as the custodian of the code repository , maintaining overall structure, hygiene, and consistency.
- Enforce coding standards, commit quality, and change discipline.
- Identify and prevent integration issues such as:
- Broken builds
- Partial or incompatible feature merges
- Regressions caused by cross-team changes
- Proactively refactor or flag risky areas that degrade maintainability or stability.

Build, Validation & Stability

- Ensure integrated code builds cleanly across supported configurations.
- Run and/or gate merges on:
- Smoke tests
- Sanity tests
- Regression test results (as applicable)
- Quickly triage integration failures and drive resolution with feature owners.
- Maintain a green, releasable product branch at all times.

Cross-Team Coordination

- Work closely with:
- Feature development teams
- Validation and QA teams
- Release and program management
- Communicate integration risks, conflicts, and readiness clearly and early.
- Act as the single point of accountability for integration status.

Release Support

- Support release tagging, branching, and handoff.
- Assist in root-causing late-stage issues related to integration or merge errors.
- Ensure traceability of features and fixes included in each product release.

Responsibilities

Own the integration of features from development branches into product/release branches.; Manage and enforce branching and merging strategies (e.g., dev → integration → product).; Perform regular syncs, rebases, and merges while resolving conflicts cleanly and predictably.; Ensure only reviewed, tested, and compliant changes land in product branches.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science; Strong experience with Git-based workflows (merge, rebase, cherry-pick, conflict resolution).; Solid understanding of software/firmware development lifecycles .; Hands-on experience with CI/build systems and integration gating.; Strong debugging skills to isolate integration-related failures.; Ability to work across teams and drive issues to closure.; Experience in firmware, embedded systems, or system software environments.; Familiarity with release management in multi-branch, multi-product codebases.; Experience enforcing or defining branching and release policies .; Exposure to validation, regression, or bring-up environments.; Strong written and verbal communication skills.