Software Engineer (Firmware) Lead (BB50FT RM 4255)

Position: Software Engineer (Firmware) Lead (BB50FT RM 4255)

Responsibilities:

• Work to develop, test and maintain embedded firmware for silicon products.
• Ensuring the robustness of code by implementing and running a software test suite
• Migration, consolidation and development of existing silicon debug software
• Software design and support for our silicon design infrastructure

Essential Experience:

• Strong experience in designing, coding and debugging real-time applications in C and/or C++ in a embedded environment
• Experience in using or implementing Real-Time scheduler or RTOS
• Knowledge of 32-bit processor architecture
• Interfacing to hardware and peripherals: SPI, I2C/SMBus, JTAG
• Debugging at application and hardware level
• Appreciation of Software validation and verification techniques
• Ability to develop under different platforms (Linux, Windows)
• Use of modern SW development workflows (CI/gitlab/makefile/CMake etc.)
• Independent, self starter who can help drive the firmware development forward.

Useful Experience:

• Development in a modern high-level scripting language (e.g. Python, Lua).
• Experience interfacing to flash memory, including in-field update techniques
• Appreciation of Cryptographic algorithms and disciplines
• Knowledge of SerDes technology
• Hardware interfacing and electronics knowledge
• Network programming experience

Experience:

• Experience working in a team
• Experience in embedded C/C++
• Experience coding a low-level microprocessor or microcontroller
• Experience optimizing low level code to meet real-time performance targets
• Experience programming in interpreted object-oriented high-level languages (e.g. Python)
• Experience working and programming on multiple platforms (e.g. Unix, Linux, Window and OSX)

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