Senior Member of Technical Staff, Firmware Engineer (SoC/RTOS)

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Own firmware architecture for multi-core embedded subsystems; define HW datapath engines and the FW needed for extensible, scalable architectures.
• Partition designs and justify tradeoffs across HW/FW/SW; collaborate with ASIC/SoC, digital design, verification, board, and systems teams.
• Bring up RTOS (selection, BSPs, drivers, scheduler configuration) and multiple boot modes including secure boot, key provisioning, and rollback.
• Implement low-power firmware strategies (clock/power domains, sleep states, retention, wake sources) and validate current/latency targets.
• Develop and optimize drivers and middleware for common interconnects (USB, JTAG, I²C, SPI, GPIO, UART, DMA); integrate with hardware modules.
• Build production firmware for both prototyping platforms and formal product environments; manage transitions from lab to manufacturing.
• Create host-side drivers/tools for Windows and Linux as needed (kernel/user-space interfaces, diagnostics, provisioning utilities).
• Define and implement TDD workflows: unit tests, HIL/integration tests, test frameworks, and CI pipelines; enforce code quality via reviews and static analysis.

Job requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent.
• 8+ years as a firmware/HW/SoC architect or senior embedded firmware engineer.
• Proven experience with multiple embedded processor subsystems and integration into ASIC/SoC.
• Solid grasp of computer architecture and OS principles (memory, concurrency, scheduling, interrupts, caches).
• RTOS selection and bring-up (e.g., FreeRTOS, Zephyr, ThreadX) including BSPs, bootloaders, and startup code.
• Firmware-controlled low-power design and measurement.
• Multiple firmware boot modes, including secure boot, signing, key management, and recovery.
• Driver development and HW module interfacing (USB, JTAG, I²C, SPI, UART, DMA).