Technical Staff Engineer Firmware

Job highlights

• . Bachelors degree or higher in Electronics / Computer Science Engineering or related technical majors . 15+ years of firmware development experience in embedded systems . 10+ years of experience with one or more storage protocols such as SAS / SATA/NVMe and thorough knowledge of PCIe protocol
• Experience in GreenHills probe is added advantage

Job Description:

Microchip Data Center Solutions(DCS) Group vision is to connect, manage and secure the worlds information by delivering innovative solutions for storage, memory & compute connectivity and end-point solutions aligned to market transitions.

Our mission is to be the preferred partner for storage, memory, connectivity and end-point storage solutions for the worlds data centers including AI infrastructure.

Microchip being one of the major suppliers of SAS/SATA Expanders and SAS/SATA/NVMe Storage controllers, is seeking for highly skilled and experienced firmware architect, who will be leading designs and development of Storage firmware and Real-Time Firmware solutions for state-of-art System-on-Chip (SoC) devices with embedded MIPS processors.

Successful applicant will collaborate with Cross Geo teams to design, develop and a wide variety of Storage controllers and expanders.

Key Responsibilities:

Your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to the following:

• Design and Develop firmware/device drivers/software for MIPS processor powered solutions using C and assembly language.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex software problems in embedded real-time systems.
• Participate in detailed design and code reviews of implementations by team
• As a senior technical member of the team, participate in the technical analysis and designing of storage software solutions involving SAS/SATA expanders, SATA/SAS/NVMe RAID controller technologies and Network Storage architectures.
• Work with Apps/Marketing team to help customers in the development of their Storage solutions using Microchip devices and software/firmware components
• Understand customer requirements and drive them through the project management process
• Work in collaboration with other Microchip sites to design new features/solutions and support customer
• Analyze software performance (cycle counts, cache utilization) of firmware.
• Analyze IO performance and finding ways to make the products yield better performance
• Write comprehensive engineering documentation.
• Present technical information to small teams of engineers and technical marketing personnel.

Requirements/Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree or higher in Electronics/Computer Science Engineering or related technical majors
• 15+ years of firmware development experience in embedded systems
• 10+ years of experience with one or more storage protocols such as SAS/SATA/NVMe and thorough knowledge of PCIe protocol.
• 10+ years of experience in Storage technologies or demonstrated comparable experience.
• Good Hands-on Experience in Firmware security and networking protocols is added advantage
• Extensive working experience of storage firmware design and implementation using C and ASM
• Experience in developing device drivers for peripheral protocols like GPIO, I2C, SPI, etc
• Experience in GreenHills probe is added advantage.
• Demonstrated ability to conceive, design, implement and document complex firmware systems.
• Demonstrated knowledge in use of protocol analyzers and debug tools.
• Exposure to Storage Security features (Encryptions, SPDM, Hash algorithms) are added advantage
• Effective communicator of technical ideas using verbal as well as written skills
• Team Player and proven leadership skills
• Highly motivated, sets personal goals, and achieves goals without supervision
• Debugging technique using GHS. Probe.

Travel Time:

0% - 25%