Job Details
Job Title: Silicon Embedded Software Engineer III
Location(s): Burlingame/Bay Area or Redmond
Must Have skills
What are the top non-negotiable skill sets required for this role?
Excellent software design and programming skills in C/C++ for development, debugging, testing and performance analysis
Understanding of how hardware works, clock-level issues, bridges, delays, interrupts, clock gating, polling etc.
Qualifications and Experience:
Minimum of 5 years of experience
Bachelor's degree in CS related field. Electrical engineering, computer engineering.
Detailed Job Description
Duties:
Embedded firmware architecture and design to orchestrate hardware accelerators
End-to-system firmware development to include power-management, boot loaders, scheduling, RTOS and/or bare-metal implementations
Develop OS custom kernel drivers and APIs for hardware accelerators and peripherals.
Support all phases of SoC development - including early architecture requirements definition for custom silicon, firmware architecture, implementation, simulation, FPGA debug, chip bringup and support systems and software teams on algorithm development on validated systems
Skills
Must Have:
5+ years of experience in embedded firmware design for low-power mobile SoC
Experience with lab instrumentation like oscilloscope, logic/protocol analyzers for debugging embedded systems at HW level
Familiarity with embedded micro-controllers' architecture
Hands-on coding experience with peripherals such as UART, SPI, CSI-2, i2c, GPIO, USB
Experience in real-time processing for computer vision and user interaction tasks, high-compute/throughput systems and using simulation and modeling technique to estimate performance and power
Hands-on experience with FPGA and hardware evaluation boards, EDA design tools, and/or ISA simulators
Wish List/ Nice to Have:
MSEE/CS or equivalent experience
Education
Must Have: Bachelor degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering or Computer Science
Master's Degree preferred but not required
Additional Notes/Comments
Story Behind the Need Business Group & Key Projects: Team is creating industrial silicon chip and needing additional support on embedded software engineering.
Compelling Story & Candidate Value Proposition: Unique industrial silicon chip experience, and design opportunities.