Firmware engineer for Security

They say, “Designing microprocessors is hard, expensive, and takes years.” But does it have to? We say, “No.”

Codasip was founded on a simple belief – we could bring together the brilliance of microprocessor architects and software engineers and capture it in tools that made design simpler, faster, and less expensive. The company was created in 2014 with the mission of democratizing processor design. Nowadays Codasip is a leading supplier of processing solutions for IC designers, offering products based on open standards such as the RISC-V ISA, LLVM, and UVM.

Job description

• Department: Labs
• Employment: Full-time (permanent position)
• Experience: Mid-Senior (Ph.D. or MSc with 5y+ of industrial experience)
• Location: Germany (Munich, remote within Germany)

General info

We are looking for an Firmware Engineer to join our Codasip Labs team. The candidate will work on commercial prototypes aligned with the scope of the Listen2Future project. Listen2Future is co-funded project by the European Commission and is part of the KDT JU framework. The project is focused on the R&D of the next-generation low-power edge processing for acoustic solutions leveraging the RISC-V architecture. The Listen2Future project starts in Q1/2023.

Main responsibilities:

• Innovate, develop, integrate, and evaluate state-of-the-art low-level SW security solutions for advanced AI/ML-capable RISC-V architecture.
• Collaborate with internal (Labs, FAE, Sales) and external (customers, partners, suppliers, academic) stakeholders to satisfy the target security requirements.
• Ensure on-time delivery of the Codasip contributions to project review meetings and deliverables, and jointly write scientific papers. Build joint proof-of-concept demonstrators.
• Support other adjacent EU co-funded projects.

Qualifications

• Over 5 years of recent and relevant experience in firmware development/system-level software development with focus on Security. Previous experience with RISC-V is desirable.
• MSc or higher academic degree in Computer Engineering or related discipline, or equivalent commercial experience.
• SW skills: C/ C++/ Assembly, and scripting languages (bash, Python).
• Experience with TEE, TEE application development and Arm TrustZone/Trustzone-M is desirable.
• Experience with a customer-facing activities and European co-funded project is appreciated.
• Fluent written and spoken English and German are essential.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, thinking outside of the box.
• Excellent communication skills, pragmatic, proactive, self-motivated, team player.