ASIC Engineer

Job description

ASIC Engineer Responsibilities

• Design and develop firmware and tooling 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 custom SoC 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 SoC 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 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 Linux, RTOS and/or bare-metal environments

Minimum Qualifications

• B.S. degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience
• 12+ 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 SoCs
• Experience working with embedded hardware platforms and exposure to concepts such as clock-level issues, interrupts, and polling

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated expertise in developing with RTOS (preferably Zephyr) and embedded Linux
• Experience in peripheral drivers like PCIe, UART, I2C, SPI is plus
• Experience in Python or any other scripting language for tooling, test automation is a plus
• Experience leading complex features or projects across multiple teams
• Experience with lab instrumentation such as oscilloscopes, logic/protocol analyzers for debugging embedded systems at hardware level
• Experience delivering end to end product solution
• Demonstrated expertise in one or several of the following areas - SoC block understanding, board bring-up