Full-time Associate Hardware Engineer role open at Infopark, Kakkanad, Kochi. On-site, paying up to ₹60,000 a month.
This one's for someone who wants to work close to the metal, quite literally. The job sits in embedded systems, building and testing the firmware that runs on physical hardware devices, then chasing down whatever goes wrong when a board doesn't behave the way the schematic says it should.
What you'll be doing
- Design and test firmware for hardware devices from early development through release
- Debug issues at both the circuit level and the system level, tracing problems back to their source
- Document technical specifications so the next engineer picking up a project isn't starting from zero
Debugging a misbehaving board is often less about the code and more about the hardware underneath it. A firmware routine can look flawless on paper and still fail because of a timing issue on the circuit, or a component that's drawing more current than the design accounted for. Working through that kind of problem, methodically, is a bigger part of the day-to-day than most job listings let on.
What gets you in the door
The role needs a bachelor's degree, with electronics or electrical engineering as the closest fit, and one year of hands-on experience working directly with hardware. That experience should include some combination of circuit design, embedded programming, or physical prototyping, ideally more than one of those together rather than just theoretical coursework.
Skills you'll use daily
- Circuit design
- Hardware testing
- Schematic capture
- Debugging, both circuit-level and firmware-level
Skills that add weight to an application
Experience with a PCB design tool like Altium or Eagle helps a lot, since schematic work often flows directly into board layout. Familiarity with common microcontroller families, ARM or AVR in particular, is useful given how much embedded work in this space runs on one or the other. Day-to-day, comfort with basic lab equipment such as an oscilloscope or multimeter matters more than it might seem on a resume, and Git experience keeps firmware changes organized as a project grows.
Compensation and where you'd work
Pay for this hardware engineer position in Kochi runs up to ₹60,000 a month. The role is based on-site at Infopark, Kakkanad, one of the city's more established tech hubs, and Naukri Mitra sees many embedded systems roles clustered around that same area. There's no remote option in this listing, so plan to be physically present in the lab most of the week.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Provident fund contributions
- Relocation assistance for candidates moving to Kochi
- Accommodation support during the transition
The relocation piece is worth noting, since embedded systems roles tend to draw applicants from outside the immediate city more often than general software positions do.
Applying
Send your resume along with any prior board designs, firmware projects, or lab work you can share, even if it came from a college lab rather than a job. Being able to walk through a schematic you built and explain a design decision you made will carry more weight in an interview than a polished project summary. Shortlisted candidates should expect a technical discussion centered on a past debugging problem.
