Senior Technical Specialist - Post Silicon Validation

Job Summary

As an ASIC Engineer, Firmware, you will architect, design, develop firmware for next-gen ASIC platforms. In this role, you will be responsible for contributing to the definition of architecture and implementation designs for our products. You will also play a key role in ASIC roadmap, from the initial architecture and design phase to deployment in the data center fleet. Our team is responsible for developing and delivering Boot firmware, low-level device drivers, and RTOS-based platform firmware for next-generation data center silicons. To succeed in this position, you will need to demonstrate strong development practices and the ability to collaborate seamlessly with cross-functional teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop firmware and tooling for next-gen data center chips, Lead the design and development of embedded software engineering activities and provide technical leadership and guidance to team members, analyze, design, develop, and debug firmware for a wide variety custom SoC for data center solutions
• Be a go-to person to escalate the most complex development, performance and evaluation issues that require in-depth knowledge of product-focused firmware development
• Support all phases of SoC development – including early architecture requirements definition for custom silicon, firmware architecture, implementation, simulation, FPGA debug, chip bring up and support systems and software teams on algorithm development on validated systems
• Play a critical role in the definition and execution of long-term roadmaps in partnership with with silicon architects, hardware designers, OS team, and algorithm and model development teams
• Understand and implement power-management, boot loaders, scheduling, inter-processor communication, firmware/system interfaces on Linux, RTOS and/or bare-metal environments

Skill Requirements

• B.S. degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of experience in embedded system development, including programming in C for development, debugging, testing and performance analysis
• Experience in BootROM, bootloaders and secure boot development
• Experience in platform firmware development for complex SoC's
• Experience working with embedded hardware platforms and exposure to concepts such as clock-level issues, interrupts, and polling

Other Requirements

• Demonstrated expertise in developing with RTOS (preferably Zephyr) and embedded Linux
• Experience in Python or any other scripting language for tooling, test automation is a plus
• Experience leading complex features or projects across multiple teams
• Experience with lab instrumentation such as oscilloscopes, logic/protocol analyzers for debugging embedded systems at hardware level
• Experience delivering end to end product solution
• Demonstrated expertise in one or several of the following areas - SoC block understanding, board bring-up