Senior Software Engineer, Kernel and Firmware, Silicon

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Electronics, or Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in development, testing, and deployment of consumer electronics/embedded systems.
• Experience with embedded programming in C/C++.
• Experience with embedded systems, kernel, Linux, RTOS, or firmware and device drivers.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in Electrical, Electronics, or Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience with Linux networking and network/wireless device drivers.
• Experience with interface protocols (e.g., USB, SPI, I2C, UART, UFS, PCIe), power management, system integration such as software stacks and drivers.
• Knowledge of embedded systems development, RTOS concepts, device drivers, and hardware/software integration.
• Knowledge of ARM, system BIOS, Linux kernel, and device drivers.

Responsibilities:

• Design software that can ultimately delight our application developers and let them make use of hardware accelerators seamlessly and in a timely manner.
• Implement and validate firmware and Linux drivers for optimal power and performance.
• Design, develop, and test embedded software drivers for the next-generation smart devices.
• Define overall architecture in collaboration with stakeholders (e.g., silicon architecture, silicon implementation, silicon software, customer) to identify user experience characteristics and how they can be mapped onto hardware in existence or in development.
• Lead in bug triage and optimize for power and performance.