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Firmware & Embedded Software Engineer | QNX | Embedded Linux | iMX8/iMX9 | TI AM62P | Device Drivers & BSP | Visteon

About

Embedded Software Engineer with 3+ years of hands-on experience in embedded Linux and QNX RTOS kernel/driver development on TI AM62P, NXP iMX8 and iMX9 platforms at Visteon — a Tier-1 automotive supplier powering Ford, BMW, and other global OEMs. I work at the intersection of hardware and software — doing the kind of low-level work most engineers don't get to touch: board bring-up, BSP porting, device driver development, boot performance tuning, and deep peripheral debugging at the protocol/spec level. Notable wins: ⚡ Reduced system boot time from 4s → 1s (4x improvement) on iMX9 via firmware profiling and low-level tuning 🏆 2× Visteon Silver Award recipient for iMX9 bring-up ownership and Ford project impact 🏆 Winner — CODE CRUISE C Hackathon (Visteon, 2024) Technical depth: - OS/RTOS: QNX SDP 7/7.1/8, Embedded Linux, Linux Kernel internals - Driver Dev: Linux/QNX device drivers, resource managers, BSP porting, GPIO, UART,Signature Unit - Peripherals: eMMC (JEDEC spec-level), NOR Flash, UART,SPI, I2C — deep protocol analysis & debugging - Platforms: NXP iMX8/iMX9, TI Sitara AM62P - Tools: Yocto/BitBake, QNX Momentics, VectorCAST, Klocwork, Coverity, GitLab, Jenkins

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Work experience

Software engineer -2 at Visteon Corporation, Apr 2025 - Present · 1 yr 3 mos, Embedded Linux & QNX Kernel/Driver Development — NXP iMX8,iMX9 and TI AM62P Platforms - Achieved 4x boot time reduction (4s → 1s) on iMX9 through systematic firmware profiling and low-level tuning — directly improving multimedia subsystem latency - Led end-to-end board bring-up for custom iMX9/QNX platform: boot flow analysis, peripheral initialization, hardware validation, and BSP low-level driver porting - Developed GPIO and Signature Unit resource manager drivers in C for QNX RTOS, ensuring correct peripheral init and inter-process resource arbitration - Implemented clock gating and power gating strategies to optimize power consumption on multi-processor embedded hardware - Analysed eMMC write behaviour on iMX8, investigated BKOPS host-managed vs autonomous modes. - Diagnosed patrol read interference with Power-Off Notification on Samsung eMMC causing boot regression. - Enabled UART-based IPC with loopback and hardware flow control validation for reliable inter-processor messaging - 🏆 Silver Award (Apr 2026) — recognized for iMX9 bring-up, eMMC EOL analysis, and QNX BSP porting ownership

Software Engineer at Visteon Corporation, Jul 2023 - Mar 2025 · 1 yr 9 mos, Embedded Linux & QNX Kernel/Driver Development — NXP iMX8 Platform - Debugged UART protocol IPC failures using QNX TraceLogger and Momentics IDE for kernel-level log analysis; restored inter-process communication stability - Resolved eMMC boot issues on iMX8 via deep JEDEC spec analysis — patrol read, boot blocks, garbage collection, BKOPS, ext CSD registers, and driver configs - Fixed backup GPT header corruption causing OTA and CAN reflash failures — traced root cause to image flashing defect and implemented driver-level fix - Validated Signature Unit & DIO Resource Manager on iMX8; performed CPU load profiling and unit testing with VectorCAST - Developed manufacturing image generation scripts with binary integrity verification - 🏆 Silver Award (Jul 2024) — Certificate of Excellence for outstanding business impact on Ford projects - 🏆 Winner — CODE CRUISE C Hackathon (Visteon, Jul 2024)

Intern at Visteon Corporation, Jan 2023 - Jun 2023 · 6 mos, - Gained foundational understanding of embedded software architecture for automotive cluster systems on NXP iMX platforms - Assisted in peripheral driver testing and hardware validation tasks - Performed unit testing on resource managers using GoogleTest framework

Education

Btech, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology