Staff Embedded SW/FW Engineer (Bringup) - Bengaluru

Overview

Staff Embedded SW/FW Engineer in the Post-Silicon Bringup team, bringing first silicon to life for AI chips and platforms by developing C code to configure and exercise systems and sub-systems on new silicon.

What you'll do

• Plan, design, develop and debug silicon bringup sequences and tests in bare metal C/C++ on FPGA/Emulator prior to first silicon.
• Deploy configuration sequences and validation tests on first silicon and debug them.
• Develop automated test framework and regression test suites in Python to optimize validation efficiency.
• Collaborate closely with engineers from many other disciplines on a variety of topics.
• Work with Validation and Production Test engineering peers to implement best practices and continuous improvements to test methodologies.
• Analyse test results, identify and debug failures/defects.
• Contribute to shared test and validation infrastructure.
• Provide feedback to architects.
• Lead, mentor, and provide technical guidance to other engineering team members.
• Report project status/progress to program management on a regular basis.

What you'll need

• Strong experience in bare metal / embedded C/C++.
• Good knowledge of digital ASICs.
• Highly motivated, a self starter, and a team player.
• Ability to work across teams and programming languages to find root causes of deep and complex issues.
• Experience of the post-silicon validation process applied in digital ASIC environments.
• Python and Linux.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate with others to solve problems.
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical and diagnostic skills.

Nice to have

• Driver level experience with one or more of: PCIe, Ethernet, memory technologies (LPDDR, DDR, HBM, …), other peripherals such as I2C, I3C, SPI.
• Good knowledge of mixed-signal building blocks such as PLLs, high speed PHYs and IC control/communication protocols.
• Experience of Arm CPUs, System IP and debug tools.
• Experience of AMBA protocols.
• Understanding of ML applications and their workloads.
• Experience in Characterization, Failure Analysis, Test Development, Statistical analysis, and Customer Support.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, India.