About the role
- Design and develop secure bootloader 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 of custom SoCs 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 hardware 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 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 RTOS and/or bare-metal environments
- B.S. degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience
- 6+ 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
- Experience in Python or any other scripting language for tooling, test automation is a plus
- Demonstrated expertise in developing with RTOS (preferably Zephyr) and embedded Linux
- Experience leading complex features or projects across multiple teams
- Demonstrated expertise in one or several of the following areas - SoC block understanding, board bring-up
- Experience in peripheral drivers like PCIe, UART, I2C, SPI is a plus
- Experience delivering end-to-end product solutions
- Experience with lab instrumentation such as oscilloscopes, logic/protocol analyzers for debugging embedded systems at hardware level