Firmware Engineer

Avanciers - Sunnyvale, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

Sunnyvale, CA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Firmware Engineer role involves developing, compiling, running, and debugging C/C++ firmware and software applications targeting ARM CPUs and DSPs. The position requires working in both pre-silicon and post-silicon environments, collaborating with various teams to execute test plans and ensure the functionality of hardware and software features.

Responsibilities

• Develop, compile, run, and debug C/C++ bare-metal/firmware/software tests/apps targeting ARM CPUs/DSP.
• Perform unit testing and end-to-end testing of software/hardware features in pre/post-silicon setups.
• Run tests for performance and power characterization in pre/post-silicon setups.
• Understand hardware register specifications and memory maps to develop/debug firmware.
• Collaborate with System Validation, Software, Firmware, and Hardware teams to execute pre-silicon/post-silicon test plans.
• Create automation scripts and set up regression tests.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in developing C/C++ based embedded software and firmware.
• Experience in developing code, bring-up, and debugging in setups with multi-layered firmware/software stacks, interrupts, doorbells, and IPCs.
• Experience in developing bare-metal tests on ARM based CPUs.
• Experience using software toolkits, code integration, and automation using Python.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience running tests on FPGA and/or emulation platforms for SoC level or IP level.
• Experience in post-silicon bring-up and flows for SoC-like IP.
• Experience with lab system debugging using logic analyzers, scopes, meters, etc.
• Experience in power tests and evaluation on prototyping platforms.
• Android development experience.
• DV experience in developing tests at complex subsystem or SoC level test-benches, creating C/C++ tests that run on ARM/DSP cores.