Embedded System Platform Architect

About the Position

Embedded System Platform Architect

España, Spain

Scalian is a company with over 6,000 people and an international presence, with offices in Europe and North America. We specialize in providing services to clients focused on Data, Cloud, and Artificial Intelligence.

Are you ready to define the electronic architecture that drives our smart products? We are looking for an Embedded System Platform Architect who will lead the comprehensive design of the electronic system, ensuring that hardware, firmware, and software work together as a coherent, secure, and highly reliable whole.

Responsibilities

• Design the complete electronic system architecture for new products and updates, ensuring scalability, performance, and regulatory compliance (CE, FCC, UL).
• Define internal communication protocols, interfaces, error handling, and synchronization between electronic modules.
• Design firmware update mechanisms (OTA and local), including secure bootloaders, cryptographic validation, and fault-tolerant strategies.
• Create concepts for “smart spare parts” capable of self-updating or self-configuring.
• Develop advanced energy management strategies, optimizing consumption and ensuring efficiency.
• Lead reliability, functional safety, and redundancy/fail-safe mechanism analysis.
• Produce clear architectural documentation: MBSE diagrams, data flows, requirements, APIs, and system specifications.
• Provide expert support in troubleshooting, performance analysis, and resolution of complex problems.
• Collaborate with product, embedded software, IoT/cloud, operations, and quality teams; and technically lead junior engineers.

Requirements

• +3 years in architecture or technical leadership roles in embedded systems.
• Experience defining communication protocols between modules and firmware update architectures.
• Solid experience with microcontrollers, microprocessors, and embedded systems.
• Proficiency in protocols such as I2C, SPI, UART, CAN, USB, Ethernet, BLE, Wi-Fi.
• Experience with RTOS (FreeRTOS, Zephyr) or Embedded Linux.
• Experience in HW/SW co-design.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity applied to embedded systems.

What We Offer

• 🚀 Be part of a top-level team with cutting-edge technologies in the market.
• 💻 Remote work.
• ⛱ 25 working days of vacation.
• 📝 Permanent contract.
• 📚 Continuous training, certifications, meetups, and personalized professional development plans to keep growing together. We have access to internal platforms with open content for you to enjoy at your own pace and time.
• 🕐 Full-time with flexible hours to facilitate the balance between family and professional life.
• 🎉 After-work events at the office.
• 🎂 Birthday afternoon off.
• 🏋️‍♀️ Gym discounts.
• 💲 Flexible compensation programs: health insurance, restaurant card, transportation allowance, vouchers for childcare.
• 🌏 As part of the Scalian group, we open our borders and grow internationally.
• ♻️ We are committed to sustainable initiatives.

About the Company

Scalian is a company with over 6,000 people and an international presence, with offices in Europe and North America. We specialize in providing services to clients focused on Data, Cloud, and Artificial Intelligence.