Embedded Systems Integration Engineer

Responsibilities

• Facilitate and lead structured technical design discussions, driving clear decisions, trade-offs, and actionable outcomes across embedded control system features

• Ensure alignment of designs with system architecture principles, including both RTOS-based platforms and Embedded Linux systems

• Drive integration across hardware, software, firmware, and communication layers, ensuring coherent system-level behavior and interface alignment

• Define and maintain system interfaces and communication models, including data flow, timing behavior, and interactions across controllers, devices, and networked components

• Support design and integration of features interacting with power system controls, including generator, switchgear, and distributed energy system applications

• Facilitate alignment on communication architectures, including Ethernet-based systems and industrial communication frameworks such as OPC UA, DDS, or similar technologies

• Develop and maintain architecture artifacts including system diagrams, network representations, interface definitions, and decision logs, ensuring traceability across requirements, design, and validation

• Identify and resolve system-level ambiguities, architectural gaps, and integration risks, including failure modes, communication behaviors, and edge-case conditions

• Engage with software and platform teams to understand embedded system behavior, including interactions between application software, middleware, operating system, and hardware

• Support system-level debugging and integration analysis, including investigation of issues spanning embedded software, operating system behavior, networking, and hardware interactions

• Partner with validation teams to define system-level test strategies, including networked test environments, hardware-in-the-loop systems, and integration lab testing

• Support development of test setups and validation environments to evaluate reliability, startup behavior, communication stability, and recovery scenarios

• Ensure consistency between design intent, configuration artifacts, and validation outcomes, enabling traceable and repeatable system verification

• Support use of model-based, data-driven, or configuration-driven workflows, ensuring alignment between system definition and deployed behavior

• Act as a cross-functional integration leader, coordinating across global teams, stakeholders, and subject-matter experts to drive system readiness and resolve technical issues

• Track and drive closure of cross-team dependencies, design actions, and integration issues to ensure program progress

• Contribute to continuous improvement of engineering processes, documentation standards, validation infrastructure, and design governance practices

Requirements

• Strong understanding of embedded systems and software architecture, including software layering (drivers, middleware, application), system services, and hardware interaction

• Working experience with Embedded Linux systems, including familiarity with system architecture, services, processes, networking, and runtime behavior in embedded environments

• Practical experience with embedded software or firmware development environments, including build systems, deployment workflows, and basic debugging approaches

• Understanding of RTOS-based systems and differences between RTOS and Linux-based control architectures

• Experience with embedded communications and networking, including Ethernet-based systems and distributed communication frameworks such as OPC UA, DDS, or similar

• Ability to analyze and troubleshoot system-level issues spanning software, operating system, networking, and hardware domains

• Familiarity with real-time and deterministic system constraints, including timing behavior, scheduling, communication latency, and system recovery

• Experience with system integration and validation, including development of test plans, test setups, and evaluation of integrated system behavior

• Familiarity with integration lab environments, networked test systems, or hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing approaches

• Understanding of configuration-driven or model-based development approaches and how they translate into deployed system behavior

• Demonstrated systems thinking capability, including evaluation of end-to-end system behavior, subsystem dependencies, and design trade-offs

• Proven ability to lead technical discussions and influence decisions without formal authority across architecture, software, controls, and validation teams

• Strong documentation skills, including development of architecture diagrams, interface definitions, validation documentation, and decision records

• Demonstrated ability to work across multiple technical domains simultaneously and integrate inputs into cohesive system-level outcomes

• Strong ownership mindset with the ability to drive ambiguous, cross-functional work to closure

• Preferred Skills:

• Strong understanding of power system controls concepts, including generator systems, switchgear interactions, and system-level control behavior

• Experience working directly on Embedded Linux-based control platforms such as Yocto or similar environments

• Experience in power generation, microgrid, or mission-critical power system applications

• Familiarity with distributed control architectures and networked system design

• Experience with model-based design tools such as Simulink or equivalent

• Experience with embedded software debugging tools, logging frameworks, or diagnostics in Linux or RTOS environments

• Experience with validation tools, data logging systems, or reliability tracking frameworks

• Experience supporting or leading system integration efforts or product demonstrations

• Familiarity with engineering tools and workflows such as Jira, Confluence, PGBST, or similar platforms

Compensation and Benefits

• Along with competitive pay, as a full-time KPIT employee, you are eligible for the following benefits:

• Geo Blue PPO and HSA plan

• MetLife – Dental and Vision plan

• Healthcare and Dependent care flexible spending account(FSA)

• 401k with employer match

• Company-paid Basic Life and Long-term disability insurance

• Voluntary benefits include Critical Illness, Hospital indemnity, accident insurance, theft, and legal service

• Employee Assistance Program

• Paid Holidays

• Employee discounts and perks

• Gym benefit