Software Engineer (Firmware)

Required Competencies - Experience

• Strong professional experience in firmware development or embedded software development in a RTOS environment.

• Demonstrable experience in porting and use of RTOS; Zephyr, FreeRTOS

• Detailed experience with SoC bring-up, bootloaders, platform initialization, board initialization, peripherals such as PCIe, I2C, SPI, SMBUS, UART.

• Proven experience working with multiple teams on Root cause analysis, troubleshooting, and debugging skills resulting into solving complex Hardware/Firmware interface issues

• Familiarity with PCIe/CXL validation and debugging is a big plus.

• Demonstrable experience of hardware and firmware architecture, design and coding for solutions at scale.

• Experience performing thorough code reviews, unit testing, and documentation.

• Proficiency with modern Software development and test workflows (CI/gitlab/makefile/CMake/TDD etc.)

Required Competencies - Skills

• Strong programming skills in C/C++ for embedded systems. Good understanding of Linux kernel internals and driver architecture.

• Solid knowledge of CPU architecture (ex. ARM, ARC, RISC-V), memory map, and register-level programming and debugging

• Demonstrable experience with software development for systems with Linux OS or multi-threaded RTOS environments.

• Good knowledge of bootloaders and boot sequence and Experience in board bring-up and hardware debugging

• Exposure to high-speed signalling technologies: PCIe, CXL

• Exposure to ASIC hardware validation & debugging

• Familiarity with scripting languages (Python/Shell) for automation

• Familiarity with debugging tools: JTAG, UART, Oscilloscope, Logic Analyzer.

• Strong working knowledge of version control tools (Git)

• Good knowledge of Baseboard Management Controller systems; OpenBMC, OpenBIC

• Good understanding of computer architectures including processors, buses, and memories.

• Ability to collaborate with hardware, validation, and application teams for end-to-end integration