Embedded Firmware Engineer

About the role

Embedded Firmware Engineer at Semtech responsible for defining, developing, verifying, and optimizing embedded firmware for low-power mixed-signal circuits. Design firmware functions and subsystems from specification to production, implement testability and diagnostic features, support hardware testing, generate technical documentation, and participate in design reviews. Conduct pre-silicon simulation validation, unit and regression testing, debug, and support emulation, FPGA prototyping, and top verification. Participate in systems and digital hardware-firmware architecture definitions, specification analysis, and firmware optimization. Support silicon lab evaluation, performance characterization, and debug. Interface with system, digital hardware, analog, verification, and cross-functional teams. Provide technical support to test, product, and application engineers.

What you’ll do

• Define, develop, verify and optimize embedded firmware for low-power mixed-signal circuits. Design embedded firmware functions and sub systems, from specification definition to support to production. Implement testability and diagnosis features to support hardware testing. Generate technical documentation and participate in design reviews. (30%)
• Define and implement pre-silicon simulation validation, unit and regression testing, debug. Support emulation, FPGA prototyping, and top verification. (20%)
• Participate in systems and digital hardware-firmware architecture definitions, specification analysis and firmware optimization. (20%)
• Support silicon lab evaluation, performance characterization and debug. (10%)
• Interface with system, digital hardware, analog, verification and cross functional teams. (10%)
• Technical support to test, product and application engineers. (10%)

What you’ll bring

• 4+ years of industry experience in embedded firmware for integrated circuits
• B.S. or M.S. in Electrical or Computer Engineering
• Strong analytical, synthesis and problem solving skills
• Solid knowledge and experience in firmware development for integrated circuits ICs, real-time embedded systems, data path, signal processing, system trade-offs (power, speed, hardware resources, area)
• Background with MCU based systems (ARM, RISC-V, PIC, STM32), architecture, and instruction set
• Proficiency in C/C++ and assembly language programming, scripting languages (Python), debugging capabilities, and industry leading embedded software suites (IDE)
• Design for test experience including implementation of testability and diagnostic features.
• Experience with configurations, version control, release management, integration, unit and regression testing
• Demonstration of technical ownership and successful execution
• Experience with standard hardware protocols (I2C, I3C, SPI, MIPI, JTAG, PCIe)
• Independent, self-motivated, rigorous, team player and able to follow through
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Nice to have

• Experience with bare-metal firmware development and real-time embedded systems.
• Embedded firmware development for mixed-signal ICs
• Hands-on experience with development boards, FPGAs, logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, supplies, multimeters and the associated measurement methods
• Knowledge of system-level aspects: signal processing, digital hardware, analog, modelling, test and application
• Experience with system/digital design methods & tools, Matlab, SV/Verilog/VHDL etc.
• Experience with consumer and/or ITA market circuit developments

Skills

Education

Bachelor