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Posted 4 Nov 2026

WLAN Firmware Engineer - Contract

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Team
Integration Engineering
Posted
4 Nov 2026

About the role

This is a work-from-office / In-Office role based in our Hyderabad, India location.

Plume’s Integration Engineering team is looking for a bright and ambitious Firmware Engineer to continue delivering industry-leading innovation for large-scale ISP solutions at a rapid pace. Due to the massive scale requirements of our platform, you will be solving challenging problems on a daily basis using cutting-edge technologies and advanced architectural patterns involving distributed systems, reactive streaming, and stateful services. In addition, you will provide end-to-end solutions that involve CPEs with OpenSync embedded in the cloud platform and beyond. This is a high-impact and customer-facing role with immense growth opportunities and will truly put your software engineering skills to the test.
What You’ll Do
  • Participate in all stages of the software design lifecycle working in multi-disciplinary teams spanning cloud, embedded devices, front-end web/mobile, data, and product
  • Interface with the customer on a regular basis and understand their problems and surgically solve them in any software layer possible
  • Write clean, maintainable code, and perform peer code reviews
  • Solve challenging scale, integration, and architectural problems
  • Deploy, operate, and troubleshoot applications in a Kubernetes ecosystem
  • Represent Plume to customer site by interfacing with various customer engineering teams
What You’ll Bring
  • Education Requirements: BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related technical field
  • 5+ years of industry experience in writing production code in multiple areas of a product
  • High proficiency in writing idiomatic code with experience in C/C++
  • Thorough understanding on L2/L3 and L4 Networking Layers and 802.11.
  • Experience working on WiFi access points, operating systems such as OpenWRT, open source platforms such as RDK or OpenSync is a plus
  • Strong understanding of algorithms, data structures, object-oriented programming and embedded systems
  • Fundamental understanding of computer networking, operating systems, and databases
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Strong oral and written communication skills

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