Technical Staff Engineer - Firmware

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The candidate will join the rapidly growing Data Center Solutions (DCS) business unit at Microchip. DCS has a broad portfolio of products being deployed today by the industry’s cutting-edge server/storage OEMs and hyperscale datacenters. Customers deploy DCS solutions into applications ranging from Big Data capacity storage to artificial intelligence and machine learning that are helping to shape the next digital age. Our product portfolio includes SAS/PCIe/NVMe/CXL products that connect, manage and secure the world’s information, including Flash Controllers, High Performance Switches, RAID Controllers and Memory Controllers. Join a team where you can expand your skill set and drive key elements of the industry’s technology leadership.
We are looking for an energetic and self-motivated engineer to work as a firmware and software team member on the analysis, design, development, verification, and release of best-in-class firmware and the collaterals to our Switchtec™ - a System-on-Chip (SoC) PCI Express (PCIe) and Compute Express Link (CXL) secured switching product. You will also collaborate with Microchip’s global architects, silicon design, emulation, validation, application engineering and marketing teams for successful product deliveries.
The code we develop, amongst other features, configures and monitors Microchip switching devices that support the connection of multiple hosts and CPU entities to multiple AI/ML accelerators and storage endpoints, including GPU, FPGA or other ASIC-based accelerator, NVMe, NIC, Memory and the like that are widely used in cloud & hyperscale data centers, video game streaming, enterprise storage and fabric systems. Our focus is on technical excellence, teamwork, collaboration, and continuous improvements in an open and encouraging environment.
Responsibilities

• Design and develop secured boot loader and other security features for hyperscale and storage products
• Collaborate globally with silicon design, emulation, validation, application engineering and marketing teams on pre-silicon firmware development and post-silicon bring-up, debug, product delivery, troubleshooting, and customer support
• Design and create infrastructural embedded system firmware, peripheral device drivers and common service modules like logging, timer and fatal error handling and etc. running in firmware on SoC platform
• Root cause critical issues and develop appropriate workarounds or fixes
• Port new RTOS to different devices by developing CPU architecture and SOC related code
• Design and implement Proof of Concept (PoC) for new features to demonstrate feasibility and to reduce risks
• System performance profiling, analysis and tuning through adjusting the usage of CPU Cores, RTOS, Flash, Memory and Cache

Requirements/Qualifications

• Excellent spoken and written communication skills
• Master the programming for CPU, SMP, Coprocessor, MMU, Interrupt, I/D Cache, Exceptions, general error handlings etc.
• Bachelor or Master degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field
• System-level knowledge of boot loader, hardware initialization, and boot-up process etc.
• Rich knowledge and experience in RTOS constructs including MSP, threads, IPC, scheduling, synchronization and memory management
• Strong electrical design knowledge, schematics drawing reading and oscilloscopes using skills
• 5+ years embedded firmware development experience, including strong knowledge and firmware design experience in SMP RISC CPU architectures/instructions and RTOS performance tuning
• Deep understanding the ideas of first failure data capture, design for testability etc.
• Proficient C and Assembly Language programing skills
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent inter-personal and team working skills

Value-add Qualifications

• Experience in enterprise product firmware development
• Experience with ThreadX (Azure RTOS) or Zephyr RTOS
• Experience with MIPS, RISC-V or ARM CPUs programming
• Experience with storage and/or networking protocols such as CXL, PCIe, IB, SAS and Ethernet or others

Travel Time
0% - 25%