Senior Staff Firmware Engineer
Marvell Technology•Santa Clara, CA
•$131,010 - $196,300
About The Position
The Ethernet PHY group at Marvell designs and develops high speed transceivers for computer networks. As a member of the SerDes PHY firmware team the candidate will contribute to the development of firmware for an embedded processor in a high-performance PAM4 encoding communication transceiver.
Requirements
- BS/MS (preferred) degree in CS/CE/EE and 4+ years of experience.
- Solid C and Python programming, debug and testing skills.
- Knowledge of embedded microprocessors (ARM Cortex).
- Experience with Git source code control and build/release procedures.
- Must adhere to established coding guidelines and practices.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Nice To Haves
- Proficient at using state machines to architect, design and write well-structured C code targeted for an embedded microprocessor.
- Experience in the architecture, design, integration and test of embedded firmware for digital signal processing systems
- Experience in the design of a boot loader and implementation of an RTOS.
- Experience throughout the entire embedded firmware development cycle including specification, design, integration and test
- Strong hardware troubleshooting capability with working knowledge of test equipment including oscilloscopes, ICE, spectrum analyzers and network analyzers.
- Experience in Python based GUI development
- Methodical debugging skills and root cause analysis.
- Experience with Ethernet protocols and physical layer devices highly desirable.
- Proficiency in Verilog a plus.
Responsibilities
- Develop and debug portable software in C, to be used in embedded firmware as well as in C/Python-based host-based utilities and GUIs, and regression and simulation infrastructure
- Intelligently structure new feature designs and other software changes so that code is scalable, maintainable, and easily mergeable.
- Participate in software development design flow, submitting and attending code reviews, managing and updating issue-tracking tickets (Jira), following team-specific design and coding guidelines.
- Cross vendor interoperability testing and debugging.
- Identify, troubleshoot and resolve issues to maintain standards compliance.
- Create utilities that aid in embedded software development, debugging, evaluating and diagnostics.
- Develop test infrastructure, test data analysis tools, and maintaining test scripts
Benefits
- employee stock purchase plan with a 2-year look back
- family support programs to help balance work and home life
- robust mental health resources to prioritize emotional well-being
- recognition and service awards to celebrate contributions and milestones
- bonus and equity plans
- new hire equity grant
- annual equity refreshers
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Associate degree
