Software Engineer (Firmware)

Responsibilities

• ● Required Competencies - Experience
• ● Strong professional experience in firmware development or embedded software development in a RTOS environment.
• ● Demonstrable experience in porting and use of RTOS; Zephyr, FreeRTOS
• ● Detailed experience with SoC bring-up, bootloaders, platform initialization, board initialization, peripherals such as PCIe, I2C, SPI, SMBUS, UART.
• ● Proven experience working with multiple teams on Root cause analysis, troubleshooting, and debugging skills resulting into solving complex Hardware/Firmware interface issues
• ● Familiarity with PCIe/CXL validation and debugging is a big plus.
• ● Demonstrable experience of hardware and firmware architecture, design and coding for solutions at scale.
• ● Proficiency with modern Software development and test workflows (CI/gitlab/makefile/CMake/TDD etc.)
• ● Required Competencies - Skills
• ● Strong programming skills in C/C++ for embedded systems. Good understanding of Linux kernel internals and driver architecture.
• ● Solid knowledge of CPU architecture (ex. ARM, ARC, RISC-V), memory map, and register-level programming and debugging
• ● Demonstrable experience with software development for systems with Linux OS or multi-threaded RTOS environments.
• ● Good knowledge of bootloaders and boot sequence and Experience in board bring-up and hardware debugging
• ● Exposure to high-speed signalling technologies: PCIe, CXL
• ● Exposure to ASIC hardware validation & debugging
• ● Familiarity with scripting languages (Python/Shell) for automation
• ● Familiarity with debugging tools: JTAG, UART, Oscilloscope, Logic Analyzer.
• ● Strong working knowledge of version control tools (Git)
• ● Good knowledge of Baseboard Management Controller systems; OpenBMC, OpenBIC
• ● Good understanding of computer architectures including processors, buses, and memories.