Senior Embedded Engineer

Efficient’s Embedded Engineers design and implement firmware, applications and hardware that feature the world’s most energy-efficient programmable processors.  The role’s primary responsibility is developing firmware and applications for our processors.  The role’s responsibilities also include enhancing and maintaining our bare-metal SDK, porting RTOSes to run on our processors, developing hardware (development kits and bring-up boards) and participating in pre-silicon and post-silicon engineering activities (validation and verification).
This position is a unique opportunity to develop cutting-edge hardware and software as part of a highly interdisciplinary team, helping to demonstrate the value of Efficient’s breakthrough technology.  If you are an engineer who wants to be part of an intensely skilled team and wants to have an immediate impact building the next generation of energy-efficient embedded applications, this is for you!

Key Responsibilities 

• Develop and deploy firmware and applications for our processors, in software simulation, RTL emulation, and on silicon
• Enhance and maintain our low level SDK and set of standard libraries
• Perform silicon validation and verification activities
• Develop bring-up test hardware and customer EVKs
• Perform board bring-up
• Perform first-silicon bring-up and checkout activities
• Engage with Digital Design and Compiler teams to debug silicon issues
• Support customers with their board development efforts, reviewing designs and providing recommended solutions

Required Qualifications & Experience Requirements 

• 8+ years of experience developing firmware and applications for embedded systems
• 8+ years of experience with C and/or C++
• Experience porting RTOSes to new processor architectures
• Experience debugging new silicon and hardware prototypes in the lab
• Deep knowledge of at least one embedded platform, such as MSP430, STM32, Ambiq Apollo, PIC32, or similar
• Experience using industry standard development and debugging tools for embedded systems
• Strong attention to detail, and an ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously 
• Good problem solving skills, communication skills, and work ethic
• Comfortable working at a start-up engineering pace

Desired Qualifications & Experience Requirements 

• Experience with PCB board design
• Solid grasp of computer architectures