Embedded Software and Firmware Engineer

What You’ll Do

• Provide technical guidance and direction to junior staff members
• Work closely across teams to discover the hardware and software requirements of current and future communication products and circuits
• Develop performance analysis and debug tools
• Develop firmware for Alphawave IP hardware
• Develop processes and flows to ensure quality software is released to end users
• Have a firm grasp of programming for embedded, memory limited environments in the C language
• Analyze, optimize, and fine-tune performance of communication technologies on various configurations of Alphawave IP hardware

What You’ll Need

• Bachelor’s in computer science or Electrical/Computer Engineering or Engineering Science
• 5+ years of experience is required
• Extensive working experience with one or more: firmware, low-level programming, bare-metal programming, optimizing embedded C code, hardware debug
• Strong programming skills in C/C++, scripting skills in Python, Tcl, Perl
• Close familiarity with computer architecture, comfortable working with hardware
• Knowledge of EDA tools, strong understanding of simulators. Hands-on experience working with emulation environment and tools is a plus
• Expertise developing tools for revision control, prior experience with Git preferred

It’d Be Amazing If You Had

• 4+ years of experience working with algorithms, data structures, or software development
• Masters/PhD in Computer Science or Electrical/Computer Engineering or Engineering Science

About You

• Excellent communication skills
• Able to listen to and appreciate ideas and opinions that differ from yours
• Extremely detail oriented
• Superb analytical and problem-solving skills
• Drives for consistency
• Takes personal pride in high standard of outputs
• Self-motivated and self-managing