Senior Lead Firmware Engineer

- Development of HAL and Peripheral device drivers for MCX, Crossover RT and i.MX family of devices, such as I2C Master/Slave, SPI Master/Slave, UART, USB, etc., to work in standalone bare metal, ROM and RTOS environments.

- Deliver high quality, well documented and tested code for customers’ reference and use.

- Verify ROM code and other software deliverables on pre-silicon test and debug environments such as RTL and Emulation platforms.

- Actively support key customers.

- Analyze, investigate and resolve system level issues together with other teams globally

- Contribute to internal and external open-source projects, managing the full development lifecycle from forking to merging

- Triage issues, review pull requests, and maintain code quality in public repositories

Key Challenges:

- The development of rom code in the absence of silicon

- Verification and debugging issues in pre-silicon environments, meeting close to 100% test coverage

- Hardening of the critical sections of the code to ensure rom code is not vulnerable to physical or logical attacks

- Meeting required security and safety standards

Cross functional aspects:

- Development of rom code involves interactions with several teams working on the SOC, Marketing, Systems Architects, SOC Design, Verification and Validation leads, Documentation, Software and other team leads.

- Mentoring will be provided by senior members of the system rom team with over 10 years of experience in rom development and architecture

Job Qualifications:

- BS/MS Degree in EE or Computer Engineering with embedded software focus, or equivalent experience

- MS with 3 years of experience or BS with 5 years of experience in the related field is required

- Familiar with ARM Assembly, C/C++/RUST/Python programming is a plus

- Understanding of embedded software development including device drivers and consumer embedded applications

- Familiarity in following areas is preferred: Flash, SPI, I2C, USB, UART, CAN, etc.

- Experience with the ARM and RISC-V based Architecture is preferred

- Experience with GCC and GNU make, ARM compilers such as IAR, Keil and DS-5 is preferred

- Experience with Atlassian tools such as JIRA, Bitbucket, etc., is preferred

- Experience using logic analyzers and oscilloscopes is preferred

- Experience as a maintainer or significant contributor to a well-known open-source project is preferred

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