Experienced Embedded Firmware/Software Engineer

Job Summary:

• Development of HAL and Peripheral device drivers for MCX, Crossover RT and i.MX family of devices, such as I2C Master/Slave, SPI Master/Slave, UART, USB, etc., to work in standalone bare metal, ROM and RTOS environments.

• Deliver high quality, well documented and tested code for customers’ reference and use.

• Verify ROM code and other software deliverables on pre-silicon test and debug environments such as RTL and Emulation platforms.

• Actively support key customers.

• Analyze, investigate and resolve system level issues together with other teams globally

• Contribute to internal and external open-source projects, managing the full development lifecycle from forking to merging

• Triage issues, review pull requests, and maintain code quality in public repositories

Key Challenges:

• The development of rom code in the absence of silicon

• Verification and debugging issues in pre-silicon environments, meeting close to 100% test coverage

• Hardening of the critical sections of the code to ensure rom code is not vulnerable to physical or logical attacks

• Meeting required security and safety standards

Cross functional aspects:

• Development of rom code involves interactions with several teams working on the SOC, Marketing, Systems Architects, SOC Design, Verification and Validation leads, Documentation, Software and other team leads.

• Mentoring will be provided by senior members of the system rom team with over 10 years of experience in rom development and architecture

Job Qualifications:

• BS/MS Degree in EE or Computer Engineering with embedded software focus, or equivalent experience

• MS with 3 years of experience or BS with 5 years of experience in the related field is required

• Familiar with ARM Assembly, C/C++/RUST/Python programming is a plus

• Understanding of embedded software development including device drivers and consumer embedded applications

• Familiarity in following areas is preferred: Flash, SPI, I2C, USB, UART, CAN, etc.

• Experience with the ARM and RISC-V based Architecture is preferred

• Experience with GCC and GNU make, ARM compilers such as IAR, Keil and DS-5 is preferred

• Experience with Atlassian tools such as JIRA, Bitbucket, etc., is preferred

• Experience using logic analyzers and oscilloscopes is preferred

• Experience as a maintainer or significant contributor to a well-known open-source project is preferred

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