Job Title: Silicon Embedded Software Engineer IV
Duration: 12 mos. potential extension(s) and/or conversion
Location: Denver, CO, New York, NY, Houston, TX, Los Angeles, CA, and San Diego, CA.
Description
What are the top non-negotiable skill sets required for this role?
•Excellent software design and programming skills in C/C for development, debugging, testing and performance analysis
•Understanding of how hardware works, clock-level issues, bridges, delays, interrupts, clock gating, polling etc.
Duties:
•Embedded firmware architecture and design to orchestrate hardware accelerators
•End-to-system firmware development to include power-management, boot loaders, scheduling, RTOS and/or bare-metal implementations
•Develop OS custom kernel drivers and APIs for hardware accelerators and peripherals.
•Support all phases of SoC development - including early architecture requirements definition for custom silicon, firmware architecture, implementation, simulation, FPGA debug, chip bringup and support systems and software teams on algorithm development on validated systems
Skills
Must Have:
•5 years of experience in embedded firmware design for low-power mobile SoC
•Experience with lab instrumentation like oscilloscope, logic/protocol analyzers for debugging embedded systems at HW level
•Familiarity with embedded micro-controllers' architecture
•Hands-on coding experience with peripherals such as UART, SPI, CSI-2, i2c, GPIO, USB
•Experience in real-time processing for computer vision and user interaction tasks, high-compute/throughput systems and using simulation and modeling technique to estimate performance and power
•Hands-on experience with FPGA and hardware evaluation boards, EDA design tools, and/or ISA simulators
Wish List/ Nice to Have:
•MSEE/CS or equivalent experience
Education
•Must Have: Bachelor degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering or Computer Science
•Master's Degree preferred but not required