Principal Engineer - Firmware

About This Role

Join a team of professionals developing software and Real-Time Firmware solutions for state-of-the-art System-on-Chip (SoC) devices with embedded MIPS processors. This role involves technical analysis, integration of storage software, mentorship, and direct customer engagement to resolve issues and guide next-generation products.

Responsibilities

• Participate as a senior/technical lead member in the technical analysis and integration of storage software involving SAS expander, SATA/SAS/RAID controller technologies and Network Storage architectures
• Lead and mentor junior members
• Program MIPS processors using C and assembly language to implement core software/firmware components and device drivers
• Work directly with customers in the development of their software solutions using Microsemi devices and software/firmware components
• Collaborate with other Microchip sites to design solutions and resolve customer issues
• Participate in detailed design and code reviews of implementations by the team
• Sustain current product and guide next generation product to production
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex software problems in embedded real-time systems
• Analyze software performance (cycle counts, cache utilization) of firmware
• Write comprehensive engineering documentation
• Present technical information to small teams of engineers and technical marketing personnel

Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant experience
• 8.5+ years of software/firmware system development for Network Storage technologies or demonstrated comparable experience
• 3+ years experience with one or more storage protocols such as SAS/SATA/SCSI/NVMe
• Thorough knowledge of PCIe interface
• Detailed working knowledge of storage software/firmware design and implementation
• Demonstrated ability to conceive, design, implement and document complex firmware systems
• Demonstrated ability to complete software product development (through commercial release)
• Knowledgeable in use of tool chains and debug tools
• Effective communicator of technical ideas using verbal as well as written skills
• Works well in a small team
• Willingness to set and meet deadlines
• Highly motivated, sets personal goals, and achieves goals without supervision

Qualifications

• Bachelors in Electrical Engineering or Bachelors in Computer Science or Math with emphasis in embedded processing
• 10+ years of relevant experience, including 8.5+ years of software/firmware system development for Network Storage technologies or comparable experience

Nice to Have

• Worked in storage network technologies
• Previous experience developing on embedded system architecture (MIPS/ARMS/PPC)
• Experience writing drivers for embedded microprocessor peripherals such as UARTs, I2C, SPI and GPIO
• Knowledge of Embedded Linux development as well as RTOS constructs including processes, threads, scheduling, synchronization mechanisms, memory management
• Familiarity with protocol analyzer and tools

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits