Firmware Engineer- Associate

Job Location : Durban, Kwa Zulu-Natal, South Africa Final date to receive applications : March 31, 2026

Role & Responsibilities:

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• Collaborating with other teams to ensure successful delivery of products.
• Participate in security reviews with the team helping to identify problem areas.
• Assist in finding solutions to the identified problems.
• Participate in preparing, reviewing, and completing project documentation.
• Writing good, maintainable code.
• Work on setting up and maintaining devops pipelines.
• Help with identifying and rectifying security related issues.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Legally eligible to work in South Africa.
• Strong communication skills in English.
• BSc in Electronic Engineering or equivalent.
• 5+ years of practical engineering.
• Expert in C/C++, not just able to write code, but able to write performant, maintainable code.
• Proficient in developing within an embedded Linux environment.
• Familiarity with virtualization technologies such as docker.
• Ability to analyze a problem and determine the best steps to solve it.
• Ability to participate in the design process, providing insight and guidance.
• Comfortable working with in-circuit emulators, GNU tool chains, gdb and cmake.
• Strict attention to detail.
• Experience with distributed embedded systems.
• Familiarity with Git and Git workflows.
• Dedicated to learning and continuous growth.
• Capable of taking a task assigned to you and demonstrating steady progress, realizing when you are going to be blocked and reaching out early.
• Able to identify unknowns in assigned tasks and go through the discovery process.

Preference will be given to candidates with the following:

• Familiarity with Yocto/Open embedded Linux will be a big benefit.
• Experience with Secure Software Development Life cycles.
• Experience Cryptographic Standards.
• Experience with QA processes.
• Familiarity with cyber security related tools and testing methodologies.
• SAFe or Agile experience.
• Experience with gitflow.
• Experience with Dev Sec Ops  and tools like Snyk and Zaproxy