Principal and Senior Firmware Engineers

The mission of this role is to architect and develop firmware and microcontroller subsystems for SoC and systems products. You are responsible for implementing the major differentiating features of products. As such, firmware is considered equally important to the hardware, and the firmware team is often customer-facing dealing with all the major hyperscalers and Cloud Service Providers accordingly to ensure their needs are fully comprehended.

Basic qualifications

Strong academic and technical background in electrical engineering. At a minimum, a Bachelor’s in EE or Computer Science is required, and a Master’s is preferred.

Minimum 10 years’ experience supporting or developing complex SoC/silicon products for Server, Storage, and/or Networking applications.

Experience developing firmware to execute in on-chip microcontrollers as well as C based SDKs) to execute BMC.

Experience working with logic designers to architect and verify HW-SW interfaces on complex SoCs.

Professional attitude with the ability to prioritize a dynamic list of multiple tasks, to plan and prepare for customer meetings in advance, and to work with minimal guidance and supervision.

Entrepreneurial, open-minded behavior and can-do attitude. Think and act fast with the customer in mind!

Required experience

High level of proficiency in C (preferred) or C++, including development of C-based SDKs.

High level of proficiency in Python for automating pre-processors/post-processors and FW QC.

Working knowledge of software/firmware build environments, gcc/Make, Doxygen, and GitHub.

Hands-on experience with Server, Storage, and/or Networking equipment (e.g. Network Switches).

Familiarity with SoC interfaces to common IP blocks such as PCIe/DDR/NVME Controllers, AMBA/AHB interfaces, on-chip memory interfaces, and other similar interfaces.

Direct experience working on products with high-speed interfaces common in Data Center equipment: PCIe (Gen-3 and above), 100/400G Ethernet, Infiniband, DDR, NVMe, USB, etc.

Preferred experience

Experience developing firmware to execute in on-chip microcontrollers as well as C-language SDKs to execute on system management controllers (e.g. BMC).

Experience developing embedded firmware for PCIe or Ethernet Switch products.

Experience with industry forums and collaboration workgroups such as OCP and OpenBMC.

The base salary range is $160,000.00– $224,000.00. Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions.

2) Senior Firmware Engineer - Power Management

Our marquee customer's newly designed CPU’s are now in all their major SoC’s in smartphones, new AI enabled PCs, automotive, IoT, AR/VR verticals. Bleeding edge technology with visibility to the highest level, working on best ARM CPU. they push the boundaries of what's possible to enable next-generation experiences and drive digital transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all.

Tasked with the enablement of the power management solution for custom CPUs you will collaborate internally to help define a standard driven solution, and implement embedded firmware, to manage performance of the CPU subsystem. You will also be responsible for helping characterize and tune this solution for all SoCs utilizing custom CPUs.

Focus on CPU performance management, working closely both with the hardware power management and firmware development teams. You will engage with third parties on enablement of new platforms, as well as providing input to SoC and platform architects on future designs.

You are a self-starter who takes initiative and brings technical leadership. Proficient writing and debugging C and assembly.

Driver development experience in RTOS or OS Kernel environments

Demonstrated development experience with embedded OSes such as Zephyr, eCos, uC/OS or FreeRTOS

Experience developing for pre-silicon environments including simulators and FPGA emulation Experience developing, characterizing and tuning performance management solutions on a SoC subsystem

Actively engage with open-source communities to contribute support for processor architectures