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Company: Renesas Electronics America Inc.
Job Title: Sr. Staff Firmware Engineer
Job Location: Austin, Tx
Position Overview:
REA is seeking a Sr. Staff Firmware Engineer for our Infrastructure Power team in Austin, TX, where we develop the most advanced digital power ICs in the industry. You will architect, design, and maintain firmware for integrated circuits that supply power to the largest and most powerful advanced computing platforms. Your contributions will span low level circuits to large system design, and you will see those systems all the way through to high volume manufacturing.
Job Duties:
- Design, develop, and verify embedded firmware on custom SOCs in pre-silicon simulation and emulation environment
- Write firmware patch to implement new features or apply hardware workaround post-silicon tape-out
- Work with hardware design team to define hardware/software interface based on user requirements
- Write firmware specification to document architecture and implementation
- Create verification and validation plan to improve quality of firmware releases
- Work with validation team to bring up new silicon and debug issues found
- Develop automated tests to validate firmware on lab bench using test equipment
Qualifications:
- 10+ years of experience in firmware development in pre and post silicon environment
- BS/MSin Electrical and Computer Engineering, or related field
- Expert at embedded FW development in C and assembly programming language
- Skillful at memory and performance optimization for real-time applications
- Deep understanding of general RTOS concepts and its applications
- Familiar with firmware integration testing on System Verilog based test bench
- Experience working with hardware RTL design in Verilog
- Proficient at Linux command line and a scripting language such as Python/Perl
- Strong analytical skills and debug methodology with excellent attention to detail
- Good written and verbal communications skills
Preferred Qualifications:
- Knowledge of ARM cortex M-series processor and ARM compiler toolchain
- Working experience with Cadence or Synopsys design tools: SimVision or Verdi
- Solid understanding of serial bus protocols such as I2C, SPI
- Test Driven Development (TDD) and standalone FW unit test bench
- Experience with functional safe firmware programming and MISRA-C coding standard
- Familiar with digital PWM voltage regulators
Renesas Electronics America is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, committed to celebrating diversity and fostering a work environment free of discrimination on the basis of sex, race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, military status, veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law.
