This role is for a highly motivated Principal Firmware Engineer with a strong background in peripheral firmware development and silicon power-on.  You will be involved with all phases of product development, from silicon design through firmware architecture and design, manufacturing, and productization.  At the design phase, you will lead the firmware architecture and design for CXL-based memory solutions and be part of the team responsible for firmware development, including; management interfaces, power-on, initialization, protocol, and feature development of low-level hardware.

The candidate should have strong coding skills, debugging and troubleshooting abilities, with experience in device firmware development (e.g. for PCIe) and system management architectures.   The successful candidate should have experience with some or all of the following: firmware development, fabric managers, board support package development, peripherals such as PCIe, I2C/I3C, SPI, USB, UARTs.  Understanding of Real-time OS and OS primitives, memory management, scheduling, interrupts, and threading.

Qualifications

Required Skills/Qualifications: 

• 8+ years of professional experience designing and developing software solutions
• Proven and demonstrable skill in C, C++. Experience with GIT
• Experienced with server management architectures and driver development
• Familiar with CXL, PCIe, I2C/I3C, SPI, USB, and UART buses
• Ability to debug and resolve issues spanning multiple subsystems
• Strong problem solving, debugging, and troubleshooting skills, advanced design and development skills
• BS or higher preferably in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent industry experience in lieu of education

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