Lead Firmware Engineer

Cadence • Austin, TX

85d

About The Position

Be part of the Cadence DDR PHY IP Front End Design team responsible for developing firmware for DDR5 PHY using microcontrollers. This role involves developing firmware in C, typically involving bare-metal programming and developing low-level APIs on Microcontrollers. You will collaborate with hardware designers and memory subsystem architects to derive training algorithms and implement them. Additionally, you will work with the verification team to deduce a firmware-hardware co-verification plan, develop and debug firmware in RTL based hardware simulations (C + Verilog simulations), and develop and debug on Silicon bring-up boards.

Requirements

• Good Knowledge of DDR5 JEDEC spec, knowledge of different DIMM configurations and specifications
• Relevant experience in developing bare-metal firmware for High-speed SerDes or Memory interface Physical Layer blocks
• Good Knowledge of C programming language for embedded software development and use of relevant IDE
• Comfortable debugging RTL simulations involving firmware and microcontroller subsystem
• Good knowledge of Shell/Perl/Python/TCL scripting
• Good experience on Verification EDA Tools like simulators and waveform viewers

Responsibilities

• Develop firmware for DDR5 PHY using microcontrollers
• Develop firmware in C typically involving bare-metal programming and developing low-level APIs on Microcontrollers
• Collaborate with hardware designers and memory subsystem architects to derive training algorithms and implement them
• Collaborate with the verification team to deduce firmware-hardware co-verification plan
• Develop and Debug firmware in RTL based hardware simulations (C + Verilog simulations)
• Develop and Debug on Silicon bring-up boards

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Ambulatory Health Care Services
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees