Sr. Staff Embedded Firmware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Define, develop, verify and optimize embedded firmware for low-power mixed-signal circuits. Design embedded firmware functions, sub and full systems, from specification definition to support to production. Implement testability and diagnosis features to support hardware testing. Generate technical documentation and drive design reviews. (30%)

• Define and implement pre-silicon simulation validation, unit and regression testing, debug, emulation, and FPGA prototyping. Support top verification. (20%)

• Specify and implement systems and digital hardware-firmware architectures, from top-level specification analysis to system and firmware optimization. Evaluate and specify CPU/micro-controller selection and ROM/RAM memory sizing based on system requirements and constraints. (20%)

• Support silicon lab evaluation, performance characterization and debug. Provide comprehensive post-silicon customer technical support, RMA analysis and field issue resolution. (10%)

• Interface with system, digital hardware, analog, verification and cross functional teams. (10%)

• Technical support to test, product and application engineers. (10%)

Minimum Qualifications:

• 10+ years of industry experience in embedded firmware for mixed-signal integrated circuits

• B.S. or M.S. in Electrical or Computer Engineering

• Strong analytical, synthesis and problem solving skills

• In-depth knowledge and experience in firmware development for mixed-signal ICs, HW-SW architectures and co-design, real-time embedded systems, data path, signal processing, system trade-offs (power, speed, hardware resources, area)

• Strong background with MCU based systems (ARM, RISC-V, PIC, STM32), architecture, and instruction set

• Proficiency in C/C++ and assembly language programming, scripting languages (Python), debugging capabilities, and industry leading embedded software suites (IDE)

• Experience with bare-metal firmware development and real-time embedded systems.

• Design for test experience including implementation of testability and diagnostic features.

• Experience with configurations, version control, release management, integration, unit and regression testing

• Demonstration of technical leadership and innovation

• Experience with standard hardware protocols (I2C, I3C, SPI, MIPI, JTAG, PCIe)

• Hands-on experience with development boards, FPGAs, logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, supplies, multimeters and the associated measurement methods

• Independent, self-motivated, rigorous, innovating, team player and able to follow through

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Knowledge of system-level aspects: signal processing, mixed-signal, digital hardware, analog, modelling, test and application

Desired Qualifications

• Experience with system/digital design methods & tools, Matlab, SV/Verilog/VHDL etc.

• Experience with consumer and/or ITA market circuit developments