FW Integration Engineer
- Full-time
- Job Type (exemption status): Exempt position - Please see related compensation & benefits details below
- Business Function: Firmware Engineering
- Work Location: Bangalore PTP Office (IBP)--LOC_WDT_IBP
Job Description
Key Responsibilities
Code Integration & Branch Management
- 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.
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.
Qualifications
- 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.
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.