Senior DSP Protection Algorithm Engineer (Firmware)

Role Overview:

We are seeking an experienced Senior DSP Protection Algorithm Engineer to join our R&D team. The ideal candidate will take ownership of firmware design, development, and optimization for high-performance embedded systems. This role involves driving innovation, ensuring software reliability, and collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to deliver cutting-edge solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, enhance, and maintain embedded firmware for Protection Relays, while ensuring deterministic real-time performance, system reliability, and maintainable software architecture.
• Strong experience in Embedded C/C++ development for DSP-based embedded systems
• Perform unit testing, integration testing, system testing, hardware validation, and real-time performance verification to ensure firmware quality, reliability, and compliance with product requirements.
• Conduct design reviews, code reviews, root cause analysis, and technical design discussions while promoting coding standards, software quality, maintainability, and reusable software components
• Provide accurate effort estimation, technical risk assessment, and timely delivery of firmware components while meeting project milestones and quality objectives.

Qualifications & Skills:

• Education: Bachelor's, Master's in Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Communication.
• Firmware Development Expertise: Extensive experience in the complete embedded firmware development lifecycle for Protection Relays, requirements analysis, design, implementation, testing, validation.
• Power-system fundamentals: Three-phase systems, fault analysis, CT/VT characteristics, symmetrical components
• DSP mathematics: Discrete Fourier Transform / Fast Fourier Transform algorithms, RMS, phasor estimation, frequency estimation.
• Protection algorithms: Overcurrent, differential, distance, directional, thermal and negative-sequence protection
• Standards and testing: Applicable IEC/IEEE protection and testing standards, requirements traceability
• Communication Skill: Excellent written and verbal communication skills with experience preparing technical documentation, design specifications, architecture documents.
• Adaptability & Continuous Learning: Self-driven and proactive professional with a passion for learning emerging embedded technologies, multicore architectures and evolving power system protection and substation automation standards.

Experience Requirements:

• Experience: 8-10+ years in Embedded firmware for Protection relays, or Power systems.
• Core expertise: Experience implementing protection algorithms such as overcurrent, directional, differential, distance, negative-sequence and thermal protection.
• Domain knowledge: Hands-on experience with ADC sampling, DMA, circular buffers, real-time data acquisition and synchronized multichannel processing.
• Strengths: Designing deterministic, high-performance, maintainable firmware for mission-critical applications with strict timing, data integrity requirements.
• Real-time performance: Processing latency, window delay, algorithm execution time and worst-case execution time
• Tools & Debugging: Proficient with IDEs, DSP intrinsics, compiler optimization, and version control systems (e.g., SVN, Git).