Firmware Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, maintain and troubleshoot firmware modules, boot loaders and low level protocol drivers (SPI, I2C, UART etc.) for embedded platforms with or without RTOS integration.
• Collaborate across engineering teams, cross functional and geographically distributed, to support firmware design, silicon bring up and firmware debug as required.
• Understand IC specifications, collaborate with IC design and architecture to define and implement firmware flow.
• Participate in peer reviews, perform and analyze static and dynamic code analysis and contribute to code hardening.
• Create detailed documentation of the firmware module designs, implementation and user guides.
• Work closely with software/firmware QA and IC validation to define, review and execute robust test plans which would include unit, integration and stress tests.
• Work, as required, with support and customer teams - development and QA - to support customer integrations and in-field troubleshooting.
  

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor of Engineering or a higher degree in Electronics or Computer Science specializations with 5+ years of experience in embedded software/firmware development or Linux/Unix systems engineering.
• Proficiency in C/C++. Working knowledge of scripting languages (Python, Perl etc.) would be a plus.
• Technical expertise, hands-on development experience with the following protocols - PCIe , DMTF management protocols (MCTP, PLDM, SPDM etc.).
• Knowledge and experience on embedded development for ARM platforms.
• Good understanding of operating systems concepts and practical experience in developing low level drivers or firmware modules.
• Strong debugging skills. Good understanding of debugging hardware/software interactions and usage of debug tools like JTAG, GDB etc.
• Working knowledge of development for multi-threaded environments.
• Experience with embedded RTOS (ThreadX, Nucleus) is preferable but not mandatory.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively with a distributed development team spread across multiple sites and time zones.