Firmware Developer

• 2+ years of experience in compiler development, optimization techniques, or instruction set simulation.
• Proficiency in C, C++, and Rust with experience in low-level programming and code generation.
• Experience in testing, maintaining, and performance tuning skills in embedded systems.
• Familiar with RISC-V, ARM/MIPS CPU architectures and their instruction set architectures (ISAs).
• Familiar with Assembly language for one or more CPU architectures (ARM/8051/ RISC-V).
• Strong understanding of computer architecture concepts, including pipelining, memory hierarchy, and microarchitecture.
• Familiar with ARM CMSIS library and integration on ARM-based CPUs.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with compiler optimization techniques such as loop unrolling, vectorization, and code scheduling.
• Experience developing and maintaining instruction set simulators (ISS).
• Knowledge of different compiler intermediate representations (IRs).
• Familiarity with compiler frameworks like LLVM.
• Experience with performance analysis and benchmarking tools like Drystone/CoreMark.
• Contribution to open-source compiler projects.
• Working knowledge of OOP, data structures, algorithms, and computer science fundamentals.
• Development experience with 8/16/32 bit processors/controllers.
• Development experience with both Windows and Unix/Linux.
• Development experience with cross compilers (GCC, Keil, IAR).
• Experience working with debuggers and Emulators (Lauterbach, TRACE32, ICE).
• Familiar with document designs (UML a plus).
• Experience and knowledge of Software Design patterns and Architecture behaviour models.
• Familiar with Firmware and Device Drivers.
• Familiar with SCM and ticket management tools (Git, TortoiseSVN, JIRA).

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and optimize compiler components for embedded systems, with a focus on RISC-V architectures.
• Implement and maintain instruction set simulators for target architectures, including RISC-V.
• Develop and implement code generation and optimization techniques.
• Analyze and improve the performance of compiled code, specifically for RISC-V platforms.
• Collaborate with hardware and software teams to ensure efficient code execution on target platforms.
• Develop test suites and benchmarks to validate compiler and simulator functionality.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in compiler technology and optimization techniques.
• Manage individual priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Understand project requirements, design, and implement efficient code, create fast, easy-to-use, and develop prototypes quickly.
• Build the libraries and frameworks that support the project requirements.
• Test, deploy, document, and maintain the source code.
• Debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on overall systems.
• Identifying gaps, discuss with stakeholders, and take ownership to resolve the gaps.
• Maintaining and upgrading existing software modules.
• Contribute to engineering efforts from planning and organization to execution and delivery to solve complex engineering problems.
• Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
• Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
• Working closely with other team and developers and business within Infineon.

Additional Qualifications:

• Experience with static and dynamic binary translation techniques.
• Knowledge of formal verification methods for compilers and simulators.
• Experience using GNU Make, CMake, and other build systems.
• Good hardware design knowledge will be an added advantage.
• Working knowledge of one or more CI/CD Delivery tools.
• Experienced and knowledge of industry EDA tools and technologies is a plus.
• Familiarity with hardware description languages (HDLs).